Turkey Cupcakes

Earlier this week, I did the Up Way Too Late Making Cupcakes for School thing. I lucked my way into supplying treats for Alexis' school Halloween party. Owls were on the agenda, but then I forgot to take a picture of the owl cupcakes because of course I did.

Trust me. They were cute.

But as I was making 22 of the little suckers, it dawned on me that the tools I was using to make owls would work really well to make turkeys. So, today Alexis and I made Turkey Cupcakes for no other reason than because we could.

Alexis made that one. She rocks.

These are fun in an assembly line sort of way, and in a just let the kid do it herself sort of way. I did the cutting, but then Alexis do all of the decorating. She thought it was FANTASTIC. And easy.

First of all, you need all of this stuff.

Vienna Fingers, Mini Oreos, candy corn, and turkey-colored frosting. Oh, and cupcakes. You need some of those, too.

The first step is to cut the Vienna Fingers at the first set of holes.

A serrated knife works well.

Then split the Vienna Fingers. You only need one half per cupcake. While you're at it, split the mini Oreos as well. Oh, and while you're cutting and twisting and such, make the candy corn a little smaller.

Then, use the frosting to make "turkey feathers."

Perfection is for people who can't just have fun while making cupcakes.

Slap that half Vienna Finger in the middle of the "feathers."

And give it some Oreo eyeballs using frosting to "glue" things in place.

Use some white frosting to make the eyes look a little better.

A dot of brown frosting completes the eyes. A gob of red frosting makes the gobble.

Gobble gobble.

Plop the candy corn beak on there and you're all done.

So much sugar, so little time.

Decorating 12 of these took Alexis about 30 minutes. It was a very quiet 30 minutes. VERY quiet.

Turkey Cupcakes are my new favorite thing, obviously.