It's an annual tradition in our family that my kids have grown up with and even at 18, 17 and 13 they still won't let me slack... this weekend is the weekend to make our mini Thanksgiving Cupcakes!
Want to join me?
- Brach's Maple Nut Candies
- White frosting
- Yellow gel food color (in a little tube)
- nonpereils - red or green (for tiny red cranberries and green peas) I bought the long shapes and called them 'green beans'
- caramels, melted or chocolate chips or butterscotch chips for 'gravy'
- a package of cookies - I choose the ones with the 'pretty edge' to look like a plate
- yellow frosting or other for the 'plate'
Bake and cool your favorite cupcake recipe.
Place frosting on the cupcake and top each with a cookie while the frosting is soft to 'adhere' the cookie-plate to the cupcake.
Slice the maple nut candies thin and layer them as 'turkey'.
Dab some white frosting next to it for 'mashed potatoes' followed with a little dab of yellow gel food color as 'butter'.
Melt your caramels, butterscotch or chocolate chips and thin with a little oil. Drizzle over the 'turkey' as gravy.
Finish it off with the 'cranberries' (red colored sugar or non-perils) and little green 'peas' or 'beans'.
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