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Blogger, Cooking with Sugar, makes Turkey Cupcakes with kids (adorable photo!) and talks about the importance of creating traditions.

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PREP TIME
30 Min
TOTAL TIME
1 Hr 45 Min
SERVINGS
24

1: box Betty Crocker® SuperMoist® devil's food cake mix

: Water, vegetable oil and eggs called for on cake mix box

2: containers Betty Crocker® Rich & Creamy milk chocolate frosting

1: tube (4.25 oz) Betty Crocker® white decorating icing

1: tube (0.68 oz) Betty Crocker® brown decorating gel

: Candy corn

: Betty Crocker® chocolate candy sprinkles

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1 Heat oven to 350°F (325°F for dark or nonstick pans). Make, bake and cool cake as directed on box for 24 cupcakes.
2 Frost cupcakes with frosting. Place remaining frosting in corner of resealable freezer plastic bag. Snip off small corner of bag.
3 To decorate each cupcake, pipe 1-inch mound of frosting on 1 side of cupcake to look like head of turkey. Make eyes with white decorating icing and brown decorating gel; add candy corn for beak. To make feathers, pipe frosting on opposite side to hold candy corn; place candy corn upright on frosting to look like feathers. Sprinkle chocolate candy sprinkles near head and at base of feathers. If desired, add candy corn at base of cupcake for feet. Store loosely covered.

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Expert Tips

If you have only one pan and a recipe calls for more cupcakes than your pan will make, cover and refrigerate the rest of the batter while baking the first batch. Cool the pan about 15 minutes, then bake the rest of the batter, adding 1 to 2 minutes to the bake time.

Easily fill a bag with frosting by placing the bag into a mug and turning the top down over the sides. Fill with frosting, then twist to close the top of the bag, squeezing to one corner before snipping off a tip.

Bake cupcakes ahead. Tightly cover unfrosted cupcakes and freeze up to 2 months.

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Nutrition Information:

1 Serving (1 Cupcake (Cake and Frosting Only))

Calories 260

(Calories from Fat 100),

Total Fat 11g

(Saturated Fat 3g,
Trans Fat 2g),

Cholesterol 25mg;
Sodium 260mg;
Total Carbohydrate 37g

(Dietary Fiber 0g,
Sugars 26g),

Protein 1g;

Percent Daily Value*:

Vitamin A 0.00%;
Vitamin C 0.00%;
Calcium 4.00%;
Iron 6.00%;

Exchanges:

1/2 Starch;
0 Fruit;
2 Other Carbohydrate;
0 Skim Milk;
0 Low-Fat Milk;
0 Milk;
0 Vegetable;
0 Very Lean Meat;
0 Lean Meat;
0 High-Fat Meat;
2 Fat;

Carbohydrate Choices:

2 1/2;

*Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.

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Posted 11/18/2011 5:30:57 PM REPORT ABUSE DragonflyJ said:

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Good Idea for the kiddies while we're waiting for Thanksgiving Dinner. Gives them something constuctive to do instead of running around and making alot of noise while Mom is cooking in the kitchen.

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Posted 10/31/2011 3:07:18 PM REPORT ABUSE kallen18 said:

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I wanted to amend my below review to add - if you aren't serving these right away, wait to put the candy corn in place. I don't know if it was the brand I used (Brachs) or some other factor, but several of them melted into a sugary puddle after sitting at room temperature (covered in a tote), and then even after being refrigerated awhile to harden them up. It was still a success though - after all, I made them for five-year-olds, and they're not too picky!

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Posted 10/31/2011 8:05:07 AM REPORT ABUSE kallen18 said:

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I made these cupcakes last night for my son's Fall party which is this afternoon. I found the directions to be straight forward and easy to follow. The canned decorative icing (for the whites of the eyes) was a bit difficult to control at times - leading to the occasional large blobby eyes. The reason I wanted to write this review however was to share my disheartening experience when I woke up this morning and checked on them: the candy corn had seemingly melted on several of the turkeys, leading to missing feathers and beaks. I put all of the cupcakes in an enclosed cupcake tote at room temperature. I can only hope they'll retain shape by staying in the refrigerator until the party...

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