Turkey Face Cupcakes (Made with Candy)
 
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Enjoy this turkey cupcake recipe and design kit idea for a festive Thanksgiving treat.
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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:
  1. - Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line cupcake pan with paper liners.
  2. -Stir flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt in a medium bowl. Sit aside.
  3. -In an electric stand mixer whip the butter and sugar until pale and fluffy in the mixing bowl.
  4. -Add in an egg, then the egg whites one at a time. Add the vanilla with the second egg white.
  5. -Measure out the buttermilk.
  6. -Mix ⅓ of the flour mixture alternating with ½ of the buttermilk. Mix after each addition only until just combined.
  7. -With all ingredients blended spoon the batter into the paper lined cupcake pan until each tin is ¾'s filled.
  8. -Bake at 350 degrees for 20-25 minutes or until an inserted toothpick comes out clean.
  9. -Allow cupcakes to cool in cupcake pan for 10 minutes.
  10. -Remove cupcakes from pan and place each on a wire rack until cooled.
Frosting Directions:
  1. -Beat the softened butter on its own until smooth.
  2. -Add cocoa and powder sugar alternately with heavy cream into the creamed butter until it becomes a smooth and thick texture.
  3. -If the frosting is too thick, add more heavy cream, if too thin, add more powder sugar.
  4. -Scoop frosting into a large pastry bag with a frosting tip.
  5. -Twist the open end of the pastry bag to push frosting to the tip.
  6. -Frost cupcakes.
Turkey Decorations Directions:
  1. -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.
  2. - Place the eyes in the front of the cupcake facing you above the ½ way point in the frosting in front
  3. - Now place 2 yellow pieces in front below the eyes for the gobble spread them apart like the picture shows
  4. - Begin to create the feathers. There is no color order that is right or wrong. Be creative.
  5. - 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/