EDMOND — Sometimes, it’s the little turkeys — not the centerpiece feast — that can be tough to manage during Thanksgiving. By giving your younger guests something to do while the main course is being prepared, they will stay busy and feel like they have a role in the big day.
Switch up the typical pumpkin pie dessert and capture their attention by helping them exercise their imagination with these Turkey Cupcakes.
Using Betty Crocker SuperMoist Devil’s Food cake mix as the base, it’s easy to bake and prepare these cupcakes the day prior to the holiday. Then, on Thanksgiving, guests young and old can customize their turkey cupcakes with candy corn and frosting as feathers, feet and the beak.
After the cupcakes are decorated and ready to be enjoyed, encourage each child to make a hand turkey by tracing the outside of their hand onto a sheet of construction paper and writing one thing they are grateful for on every finger of the outline. Decorate with feathers, wiggly eyes and crayons. With these hand tracings serving as table decorations, ask each child to read aloud the list of things they are grateful for during dinner.
For more ideas, visit www.bettycrocker.com.
Turkey Cupcakes
Prep Time: 30 min.
Total Time: 1 hour 45 min.
Makes 24 cupcakes
Ingredients:
1 box Betty Crocker SuperMoist Devil’s Food cake mix
Water, vegetable oil and eggs called for on cake mix box
2 containers (1 pound each) Betty Crocker Rich & Creamy milk chocolate frosting
1 tube (4.25 ounces) Betty Crocker white decorating icing
1 tube (0.68 ounces) Betty Crocker brown decorating gel
Candy corn
Chocolate candy sprinkles
Directions:
Heat oven to 350 degrees (325 degrees for dark or nonstick pans). Make and cool cake as directed on box for 24 cupcakes.
Frost cupcakes with frosting. Place remaining frosting in corner of resealable freezer plastic bag. Snip off small corner of bag.
To decorate each cupcake, pipe 1-inch mound of frosting on 1 side of cupcake to look like head of turkey. Make eyes with white decorating icing and brown decorating gel; add candy corn for beak. To make feathers, pipe frosting on opposite side to hold candy corn; place candy corn upright on frosting to look like feathers. Sprinkle chocolate candy sprinkles near head and at base of feathers. If desired, add candy corn at base of cupcake for feet. Store loosely covered.
Source: Betty Crocker. Betty Crocker and SuperMoist are registered trademarks of General Mills.
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