How to Make Turkey Cupcakes With Oreos: Easy Holiday Treat
Pies may be a Thanksgiving staple for many, but these adorable turkey cupcakes with Oreos are a quick, easy dessert perfect for kids and adults. A dessert that can be made from scratch or with your favorite boxed cake mix. See how easy it is to make cupcakes pretty enough for any Thanksgiving table.
Making Turkey Cupcakes With Oreos
You can make turkey cupcakes in any flavor you’d like. I used a chocolate cake mix for this example, but you can go with vanilla if you prefer. If you want to make homemade chocolate cupcakes, here’s my recipe for chocolate cupcakes with sour cream.
Here are the ingredients needed.
- 6 Cupcakes
- 8 Ounces Buttercream frosting
- 3 Oreos
- Yellow Food Gel
- Red Food Gel Color
- Orange Food Gel Color
- Candy Eyes
Step by Step With Photos
Use your favorite vanilla frosting recipe, or keep it simple with store-bought frosting. You need about 8 ounces total. Divide the frosting evenly into 3 bowls and add gel food coloring to each. Add about 2-3 drops of yellow coloring to one bowl, red to another, and orange to the final bowl. Stir each bowl to distribute the food coloring throughout the frosting.
Transfer each of the colored frosting into a piping bag. Tie the ends of the bags and snip the tips. Start with the red buttercream and pipe a straight line about one inch from the top of the cupcake. Then pipe a cloudlike, bumpy line that connects to each end of the straight line.
Now fill this area with more red buttercream, then use a butter knife to spread the frosting. Pipe orange buttercream to overlap the bottom of the red buttercream. Follow the same process as you did to draw and fill in the red frosting. After the orange cloud is filled in, repeat the process with the yellow frosting.
These turkey cupcakes with Oreos are now ready for their cute faces. Separate the Oreos and scrape off the cream. I like using the inside of the Oreo as the Turkey’s face because it’s smooth and doesn’t have ridges.
Pipe two red circles onto the Oreo, then place a candy eye on top of each red dot. Then use the yellow frosting to pipe a triangle for the beak.
Use the red frosting to pipe the red snood around the Turkey beak. Once the face is complete, add a little yellow frosting to the back and place it on the bottom of the cupcake. The Oreo will cover most of the yellow frosting.
The cupcakes are now ready to serve, and your guests will undoubtedly gobble them right up. While they are a dessert that’s perfect for the little kids’ table, adults will also enjoy these adorable turkey cupcakes with Oreos.
For another cute Thanksgiving treat, make these Fudge Striped Turkey Cookies. Not only delicious, but you can also use them as place holders at the dinner table.
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Turkey Cupcakes
Equipment
- 3 bowls
Ingredients
- 6 Cupcakes
- 8 Ounces Buttercream frosting
- 3 Oreos
- Yellow Food Gel
- Red Food Gel Color
- Orange Food Gel Color
- Candy Eyeballs
Instructions
- Separate a little over 2 1/2 ounces of buttercream into 3 small bowls.
- Put 2-3 drops of orange food color in one of the bowls and mix until all the buttercream is orange. Repeat this step to with the yellow food gel color in the next bowl and the red food gel color for last bowl.
- Place the each of the colored buttercream kfrotings in its own piping bags and tie the ends.
- Cut a small hole at the tip of the piping bag with the red buttercream. About an inch from the top of the cupcake pipe a straight line across it. Then pipe several bumps across the top of the cupcake that resemble a cloud. Make sure the lines connect.
- Using the same red buttercream fill in the top portion of the cupcake. Use a clean butter knife or spatula to smooth out the buttercream.
- Pipe three bumps with orange buttercream slightly on top of the bottom portion of the red buttercream following the same piping and filling steps as above. Then repeat the same steps again with the yellow buttercream.
- Now get the chocolate sandwich cookies and scrape the cream off the inside of each cookie.
- Use the red buttercream to pipe 2 dots on the cookies where you want the eyes to be. Place one candy eye on each dot.
- Use the yellow buttercream to pipe a triangle beak below the eyes. Then using the red buttercream, pipe the turkeys snood around the yellow beak.
- Pipe some of the yellow buttercream on the back of the cookies and attach it to the yellow portion of the cupcakes.
Notes
- The cupcakes can be stored in an airtight container in the fridge for 4 days, although the texture of the cookies may change so it’s better to add them after the cupcakes are brought to room temperature.
- Use any flavor of cupcakes you’d like.
- Any leftover buttercream can be stored in a freezer bag or an airtight container in the refrigerator for 10 days.
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