BGT - November 19th

Hi guys and gals!! I'm back with a special Thanksgiving treat for you.  I first made these Turkey Cupcakes a few years back - I think it was a Betty Crocker recipe, but I'm not positive.  They were a big hit on the dessert table during Thanksgiving back then, so naturally I wanted to share it with you. 

For this recipe, you will need:
- 1 box cake mix (any type will do) plus the ingredients that are called for*
- Cupcake wrappers
- Chocolate frosting in Milk Chocolate
- 1 bag candy corn
- some type of small white candy for eyes (the ones I used were part of a 6-pack of sprinkles)
- Optional - Pillsbury Easy Frost in Chocolate
1.  Bake the cupcakes as directed. 
* I followed a recipe I got from Weight Watchers a while back - instead of using the ingredients on the box, you bake them with 1 1/2 cups of a diet soda (Sprite/7up/Sierra Mist go with yellow cake mix, Pepsi/Coke go with chocolate), an egg or half an Egg Beater, and the cake mix.  Mix together for about two minutes or until completely blended
2.  Remove from oven and let them cool completely.
3.  Frost the cupcakes with chocolate icing as you normally would. 

4.  If you have the Easy Frost, making the heads are quite easy.  Pick a spot on the edge of the cupcake and frost in a small circle upwards until you have something that resembles a head.  If not, use my easy Ziploc bag trick: put frosting into a Ziploc and cut off a good sized hole on one of the bottoms.  Voilà! Instant pastry bag.
5.  Poke a candy corn into the turkey's head as shown to represent a beak. 
6.  Place two white candies as eyes.  If I had gotten more creative (which I wish I had) I could have made another makeshift pastry bag and put dots on the white candy for eyeballs.  I didn't think about that until I was serving them.
7.  Take 5 candy corns and put them opposite the head for the tail feathers.  Be careful not to put them too close to the edge of the cupcake - they WILL break the edge of the cupcake.  Then the wrapper will fall down under the weight of the candy corn and you'll have to do some serious cupcake surgery to repair the turkey.  (Trust me.  It happened.)
8.  Ta-da!! You have a whole gang of turkeys just in time for Thanksgiving dessert!