Cupcakes For Thanksgiving
Creative Decorating Ideas

Cupcakes for Thanksgiving will make your guests smile. Pies are great, but remember, its Thanksgiving, there is always room for more. Thanksgiving cupcakes will add to your table.

A chocolate turkey, a pilgrim hat, and a horn of plenty makes a nice delicious decorative assortment. For a classic look, decorate with sprinkles or candy corn.

If your traveling, cupcakes for Thanksgiving will be a unique gift. You can have color and flavor variations or tint the frosting. Make the cupcakes colorful in orange or yellow as well as chocolate. Everyone will love your creative cupcakes for Thanksgiving. Gobble Gobble.

Use any flavor cupcake recipe or desired box mix recipe with the following decorative ideas.

Pilgrim Hat Cupcakes

Ingredients

• 24 cupcakes of choice
  
• 24 fudge striped cookies
  
• 24 marshmallows
  
• 12 oz. package of chocolate chips
  
• Yellow decorators frosting
  

1. Place the cookies face down on a tray lined with wax paper
   
2. Melt the chocolate in a double boiler (stir continuously)
   
3. Stick a marshmallow on a skewer and dip in chocolate
   
4. Take a toothpick and gently slide off the marshmallow, centering the marshmallow on top of the cookie
   
5. Place tray in refrigerator and chill
   
6. When cooled and set, add a buckle decoration with yellow icing
   
7. Frost the top of your cupcake with desired flavored icing, and place cookie hat in the middle, by adding frosting to the bottom, and placing on top.
   

Turkey Cupcakes

Ingredients

• 24 Cupcakes of your choice
  
• Mini M&M's, or chocolate candy pieces
  
• 2 cups vanilla icing
  
• 1 cup chocolate icing
  
• Red gel pen
  
• Candy corn
  

This is a simple decoration that you can get creative with.

Cupcake Decoration

1. Put vanilla icing in a bowl, gradually add in the chocolate icing until you get the desired golden color of a turkey.
   
2. Dab on a white circle for the eyes, and add an M& M to the middle for eyes.
   
3. Place the candy corn along the edge to resemble feathers.
   
4. Draw on a beak with the red gel pen
   

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Turkey Cupcakes with Chocolate Icing:

Ingredients

• Cupcakes of your choice
  
• Chocolate butter cream icing
  
• Candy corn
  
• White decorator icing
  
• Black decorator icing, or chocolate sprinkles
  

Cupcake Decoration

1. Frost cupcake with chocolate frosting
   
2. Place candy corn along the edge to resemble feathers
   
3. Place icing in a pastry bag and squeeze out a dollup to resemble the turkeys head
   
4. Decorate with white icing and sprinkles or gel to make eyes
   

Horn of Plenty Cupcakes for Thanksgiving

• Cupcakes and frosting of choice
  
• Bugle Corn chips
  
• Runts in fruit shapes (you can usually purchase these at your party store)
  

Cupcake Decoration

1. Place bugle on its side on top of cupcake.
   
2. Place runts inside to resemble a fruit filled basket by dabbing a small bit of icing on them before placing
   

These cupcakes would do a Pilgrim proud! Enjoy!

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