Turkey Cupcakes

Looking for a last-minute dessert idea for Thanksgiving?  Perhaps something to keep the kids entertained while you're busy in the kitchen?  Try this one from Family Fun on for size!  {Pulling this together super-last-minute?  Grab some already-frosted cupcakes in your supermarket's bakery section!}

 

Turkey Cupcakes

Ingredients 

24 frosted cupcakes

24 Nutter Butter cookies

2-3 Tbsp white frosting {or decorator's gel}

Mini chocolate chips

Fruit leather {various colors and flavors}

Toothpicks

Directions

• To make each turkey, press the lower portion of a Nutter Butter cookie into a frosted cupcake for the bird's head.
• Use tiny dabs of frosting to stick on mini-chocolate chip eyes and a red fruit leather wattle.
• For each turkey's tail, use a butter knife to cut out a dozen feather shapes {about 3 inches long and 1 inch wide} from fruit leather.
• Lay 6 of the feather shapes on a flat surface and place a wooden toothpick lengthwise atop each so that one end of the toothpick extends about an inch below the feather.  Layer another fruit leather layer atop each of the 6 shapes, sandwiching the toothpicks between them.
• Press the 2 layers together to make them stick, then fringe the edges of the feather with a butter knife.  Stick the colored feathers into the cupcake behind the cookie head.

Gobble, gobble folks!  Have a great Thanksgiving!

xoxo
Bean

{photo credit:  Family Fun}