Enjoy this turkey cupcake recipe and design kit idea for a festive Thanksgiving treat.
Author: Cassie from The Thrifty Couple
Recipe type: Cookie Dessert
Cuisine: American
Serves: 12
Ingredients
Cupcake Ingredients:
1½ C flour
1 tsp baking powder
⅛ tsp baking soda
¼ tsp salt
1 C sugar
½ C unsalted butter, room temp
1 large egg, room temp
2 large egg whites, room temp
½ tsp vanilla
⅓ C buttermilk
Frosting Ingredients:
1 C unsalted butter, softened
¾ C cocoa powder
3 C powder sugar
¾ C heavy cream
Turkey Decorations Ingredients:
The Wilson Turkey Cookie Decorating Kit
Instructions
Cupcake Directions:
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line cupcake pan with paper liners.
-Stir flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt in a medium bowl. Sit aside.
-In an electric stand mixer whip the butter and sugar until pale and fluffy in the mixing bowl.
-Add in an egg, then the egg whites one at a time. Add the vanilla with the second egg white.
-Measure out the buttermilk.
-Mix ⅓ of the flour mixture alternating with ½ of the buttermilk. Mix after each addition only until just combined.
-With all ingredients blended spoon the batter into the paper lined cupcake pan until each tin is ¾'s filled.
-Bake at 350 degrees for 20-25 minutes or until an inserted toothpick comes out clean.
-Allow cupcakes to cool in cupcake pan for 10 minutes.
-Remove cupcakes from pan and place each on a wire rack until cooled.
Frosting Directions:
-Beat the softened butter on its own until smooth.
-Add cocoa and powder sugar alternately with heavy cream into the creamed butter until it becomes a smooth and thick texture.
-If the frosting is too thick, add more heavy cream, if too thin, add more powder sugar.
-Scoop frosting into a large pastry bag with a frosting tip.
-Twist the open end of the pastry bag to push frosting to the tip.
-Frost cupcakes.
Turkey Decorations Directions:
-Following the outline for the layout of the decorations on the cupcake picture, use the Turkey candy cupcake product found at Amazon, Walmart, Michaels, Target or Hobby Lobby.
- Place the eyes in the front of the cupcake facing you above the ½ way point in the frosting in front
- Now place 2 yellow pieces in front below the eyes for the gobble spread them apart like the picture shows
- Begin to create the feathers. There is no color order that is right or wrong. Be creative.
- I started with the back row first and then row two and finishing with the row closest to the eyes.
Recipe by The Thrifty Couple at https://thethriftycouple.com/turkey-face-cupcakes-made-with-candy/