Thanksgiving Turkey Cupcakes Recipe (2024)

This Thanksgiving Turkey Cupcakes Recipe is an easy dessert recipe with Nutter Butter Cookies! Make this easy Thanksgiving Dessert recipe as a super fun activity with your kids this Thanksgiving!

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What Are Turkey Cupcakes?

No, they aren't cupcakes made with turkey! (I'm not recreating Rachel's trifle from Friends). Instead, these cute cupcakes look like turkeys.

There are a ton of easy ways to decorate cupcakes like turkeys. I used Nutter Butter cookies and candy corn. This is a perfect recipe for beginning cupcake decorators.

Thanksgiving Turkey Cupcakes Recipe

I absolutely LOVE this adorable little Thanksgiving Dessert Recipe, and while it looks pretty detailed, it is so easy to make!

Serve these Turkey Cupcakes with Candy Corn at your next Thanksgiving dinner, or sell them at a bake sale. Just remember that Nutter Butter cookies are filled with peanut butter, so they might not be a good idea to take to school.

Want even easier cupcakes to make for Thanksgiving? How about some super-simple Pumpkin Pie cupcakes? They taste like a PSL - yum!

Where can I find the recipe card?

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More Easy Thanksgiving Recipes

Check out these really fun Thanksgiving themed recipes on The Rebel Chick. I am always adding new recipes, especially during the months surrounding Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays.

How to Make Thanksgiving Turkey Cupcakes

Grab your friends and get ready to make some fun little turkey cupcakes! All the instructions and ingredients are in the printable recipe card. First, I have some tips and pictures of each step.

Ingredients

All the exact ingredients are in the printable recipe card at the bottom of this post. First, here is what you'll need from the store:

• Cupcakes, baked and cooled
• White frosting
• Nutter Butter sandwich cookies
• Candy coated sunflower seeds (orange and red color seeds only)
• candy eyes
• Candy corn

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Directions

Here are some pictures of the entire process so you can see how I decorated cupcakes to look like turkeys.

Remove about 1 tablespoon of frosting from the tub and place into a sealable sandwich bag. Set aside.

With remaining frosting, color it dark brown using food coloring. Place icing into a pastry bag fitted with a star tip and frost the cupcakes.

Set aside.

Place cookies on a flat surface. Using the reserved white frosting, snip a small corner of the bag and pipe a small amount on the cookie and place the candy eyes on the cookie.

Pipe a small amount of frosting and place an orange beak and red waddle onto the cookie using the candy coated sunflower seeds.

Gently press the cookie into the cupcake.

Tuck candy corns, pointed side down, into each cupcake and repeat until all cupcakes are decorated.

Serving Size

Thisrecipe makes 24 cupcakes.

Storage

Store decorated cupcakes in an airtight container at room temperature for up to three days.

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