Turkey Face Cupcakes

A fun dessert for Thanksgiving weekend, besides what will you eat for dessert when the pumpkin pie is gone? These Turkey Face Cupcakes will be perfect, trust me!   

Thanksgiving seems to revolve around one major dessert.

PUMPKIN PIE!

Well, this year I figured most people would tire of serving after serving of pumpkin pie and I was going to be dropping some of these cuties off to some friends,

I think they were happy they weren’t pumpkin or pecan related, to be honest.

Pie seems to get eaten pretty fast by the time breakfast rolls around the day after Thanksgiving in our house, so these would be perfect for dessert, drop-per by-ers and YOU of course. You look like you could use a cute cupcake. I know I could after tackling a 20-pound turkey!

You can find detailed instructions on how to make the royal icing eyes here, and to make the beak and waddle just tint 1/2 cup orange and 1/2 cup red and pipe a sideways V in orange and three dots touching the point on the V so you can remove them once they dry easily from the wax paper.

The royal icing pieces need to COMPLETELY dry. I make them a day ahead of time. They are small and would most likely take a couple of hours to dry if you don’t have overnight.

 

Vanilla Bean Cupcake Recipe makes 24

 

Place frosting into piping bag with #809 round tip and pipe a dollop of frosting onto each cupcake and then carefully add the beaks and waddles, then the eyes. I placed the beaks onto the peeks of the frosting to push them smooth into the cupcakes.