EASY THANKSGIVING TURKEY CUPCAKE RECIPE

If you're looking for an easy Thanksgiving turkey cupcake recipe, well they don't come any easier than this. Why is it so easy? because I used a chocolate cake mix and ready made chocolate frosting.

When you watch the video it's pretty easy to tell that I'm not exactly a super serious teenage Martha Stewart. Unlike other bakers that are churning out cake decorating videos that are super polished; I'll admit my mistakes and tell you how about my mistakes (like you can't see them, right?) and share tips on what I SHOULD have done or what I WISH that I had done that might have gotten better results.

It wasn't just the cake mix and store bought frosting that made this such an easy Thanksgiving turkey cupcake recipe; using the candy corn to make Tom Turkey's tail feathers instead of making them out of orange, yellow and red fondant was a stroke of pure genius. Especially since I had such trouble making the turkey's waddle and eyes!

WHAT I WISH THAT I HAD DONE

If you look closely you will see that the candy corn is supported by a large, feather-shaped wedge of dark chocolate that I made from melted Hershey bars. I wish that I had used chocolate bark instead of Hershey bars because it would have been stiffer than the milk chocolate that was almost too soft to hold up the candy corn! It kept trying to flop over!