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If you plan on celebrating Thanksgiving this year with your own Thanksgiving cupcakes, then you are probably looking for some ideas on how to decorate them. This page will guide you through a variety of ways and suggestions to help ensure your cupcakes are as good as the rest of your Thanksgiving dinner (or perhaps even better).
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Decorating Tips
- Stenciling is a quick and easy way to decorate Thanksgiving cupcakes.
- Turkeys are very popular for Thanksgiving.
- Candy corn can be used for various parts of a turkey.
- If you're really creative, consider decorating your cupcakes with a miniature Thanksgiving dinner.
- Cupcakes are a tasty way to make placecards.
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Leah DiEmilio Living Makes Turkey Cupcakes
Leah D'Emilio, of ''Mahalo Daily'' takes on Martha Stewart in this video demonstration of how to make turkey cupcakes. D'Emilio uses chocolate cupcakes, chocolate frosting, candy corn, vanilla wafers, chocolate decorating icing, Fruit by the Foot, and chocolate sprinkles. The video shows the turkeys from both a bird's eye view and a 3D view.
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Turkey Cupcakes
- No symbol is more synonymous with Thanksgiving then the turkey (although they would be more than happy to give the honor to the chicken). To start, you will need several cupcakes. Most designs use chocolate frosted cupcakes. However, you could also cover any cupcake with chocolate candy sprinkles to look like feathers.Gather: Turkey Cupcakes by Leanarda S. Then, you can use some of the following ideas to create different features on your cupcakes:
- Head
- You have many options to choose from when making your turkey's head:
- Try placing oval shortbread cookies on the cupcake.FamilyFun.com: Thanksgiving Recipes: Sweet T.O.M. Turkey Cupcakes Recipe
- Use Nutter Butter cookies by pushing the cookie upright into the cupcake.FamilyFun.com: Thanksgiving Recipes: Gobbling-Good Cupcakes Recipe
- Cover miniature peanut butter cups in frosting for a tasty treat.About.com: Thanksgiving Cupcakes - Turkey Cupcakes
- Pipe a large mound of chocolate frosting on one side of the cupcake.Gather: Turkey Cupcakes by Leanarda S.
- Take a large gumdrop and press a candy corn into the center at an angle for the beak.Bigoven: Turkey Cupcakes Recipe
- Eyes
- Use dabs of frosting to stick mini chocolate chips for the eyes.FamilyFun.com: Thanksgiving Recipes: Gobbling-Good Cupcakes Recipe
- Try using white decorating icing or white chocolate chips and add brown or black decorating gel to create pupils.Gather: Turkey Cupcakes by Leanarda S. About.com: Thanksgiving Cupcakes - Turkey Cupcakes
- Beak
- The most common way to create a beak is by using candy corn.About.com: Thanksgiving Cupcakes - Turkey Cupcakes
- For a smaller beak, cut the tip off a piece of candy corn.FamilyFun.com: Thanksgiving Recipes: Sweet T.O.M. Turkey Cupcakes Recipe
- Wattle
- The wattle can be made out of red fruit leather.FamilyFun.com: Thanksgiving Recipes: Sweet T.O.M. Turkey Cupcakes Recipe
- You can also cut a red gumdrop into thin strips and press one below the beak.Bigoven: Turkey Cupcakes Recipe
- Feathers / Tail
- Select one of these options when making a tail:
- Use candy corn to create feathers by inserting them tip down around one side of the cupcake.FamilyFun.com: Thanksgiving Recipes: Sweet T.O.M. Turkey Cupcakes Recipe
- You can also cut fruit leather into feather shapes and stick it into the cupcakes with the aid of toothpicks.FamilyFun.com: Thanksgiving Recipes: Gobbling-Good Cupcakes Recipe
- For an inedible tail, use construction paper by cutting out feather shapes.Spatulatta: Thanksgiving Sides
Pilgrim Hat Cupcakes
- Pilgrim hats are another festive Thanksgiving option. Here are a couple ways to turn your ordinary cupcake into a snazzy pilgrim hat.
- You can turn a chocolate frosted cupcake into a pilgrim hat fairly simply by using a chocolate covered marshmallow.FamilyFun.com: Marshmallow Pilgrim Hats Recipe
- Get creative by using an ice cream cone as your cupcake batter mold. When the cupcake is baked, simply cover with frosting and decorate.FamilyFun.com: Hats Off to Thanksgiving
Stenciling Cupcakes
- A quick and easy way to decorate cupcakes is to stencil a design over the top of them. To do this, all you need is frosted cupcakes, a topping and a stencil. You can also use this technique to decorate cakes, cookies and brownies. Images that are associated with thanksgiving include turkeys, pilgrim hats, cornucopias (the horn shaped object filled with vegetables), pumpkins, maple leaves and Native Americans.
- There are a variety of toppings you can use to make your design including:
- Colored sugar.About.com: How to Make Colored Sugar
- Colored powdered sugar.FabulousFoods.com: How to Make Tinted Sugars and Coconut (July 29, 2007)
- Colored coconut.FabulousFoods.com: How to Make Tinted Sugars and Coconut (July 29, 2007)
- Sanding sugar.MarthaStewart.com: Stenciled Halloween Cakes
- Ground ginger and confectioners' sugar.MarthaStewart.com: Stenciled Halloween Cakes
- Cocoa powder and cinnamon.Slashfood: How to Make Cupcake Stencils
- Cupcake and cookie stencils are fairly inexpensive and are sold by Wilton online.Wilton: Autumn Cupcake and Cookie Stencils However, you can make your own stencils very easily. If you are interested, check out Mahalo's page on how to make stencils for the basic steps. You can also use Thanksgiving cookie cutters as templates to make your own stencils. Thanksgiving cookie cutters are available at the following locations:
- The Wire Whisk: 8 Piece Thanksgiving Cookie Cutter Set
- Copper Gifts: Thanksgiving Cookie Cutters
- Google Product Search: Thanksgiving Cookie Cutters
Mini Thanksgiving Dinner Cupcakes
- You can create a miniature edible Thanksgiving dinner on your cupcakes with a little bit of work. You will need: round shaped cookies, yellow frosting, maple nut candies, white frosting, yellow gel food coloring, butterscotch or chocolate chips, vegetable oil, green sprinkles or nonpareil, red nonpareils or sugar. Then, you can create the various dishes by doing the following:
- Plate: Set a round cookie on top of a cupcake and cover it with yellow frosting.Recipezaar: Mini Thanksgiving Dinner Cupcakes Recipe
- Turkey slices: Thinly slice maple nut candies, and place them in layers on the plate.Recipezaar: Mini Thanksgiving Dinner Cupcakes Recipe
- Mashed potatoes: Place a dab of white frosting next to the turkey. Add a little bit of yellow gel food coloring on top for the butter.Recipezaar: Mini Thanksgiving Dinner Cupcakes Recipe
- Gravy: Melt butterscotch or chocolate chips with a little bit of vegetable oil. Drizzle over the turkey.Recipezaar: Mini Thanksgiving Dinner Cupcakes Recipe FamilyFun.com: Tiny Turkey Dinner
- Cranberries: Place a small amount of red nonpareils or sugar.An American Housewife: Mini Thanksgiving Dinner Cupcakes
- Green Beans: Place a small amount of long green sprinkles.An American Housewife: Mini Thanksgiving Dinner Cupcakes
- Peas: Place a small amount of green nonpareils to create peas instead of beans.FamilyFun.com: Tiny Turkey Dinner
Other Ideas
- Here are a few other ideas that you can use to create Thanksgiving themed cupcakes:
- Use candy leaves and pumpkins to decorate the top of your cupcakes.Mrs. Beasley's: Thanksgiving Cupcakes
- Orange, yellow and brown sprinkles make a colorful trim.Mrs. Beasley's: Thanksgiving Cupcakes
- If you use icing to write guests' names on the cupcakes, they can be used for placecards.Pink Cake Box Wedding Cakes: Thanksgiving Placecard Cupcakes
- Top your cupcake with sugar shapes such as pilgrim hats.Shopping.com: Thanksgiving Cakes Cupcakes Cookies Pilgrim Hat Shaped Sugars
- Use yellow and white buttercream frosting on orange cupcakes and make them look like miniature pumpkin pies.Cupcakes a go-go Sarasota: Main Page
- Place a green gumdrop on the center of an orange-colored cupcake and you have an instant pumpkin.
Conclusion
- Now that you've have your Thanksgiving cupcakes, you might want to check out some of Mahalo's other pages on Thanksgiving food such as how to carve a turkey, how to make pumpkin pie or how to make cranberry sauce. You might also be interested in how to pick a Thanksgiving turkey, how to plan Thanksgiving dinner, how to store leftover turkey and how to survive Thanksgiving dinner with your family.
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