Our turkey place card does double duty - letting guests know where to sit at the beginning of the meal and providing a dessert at the end. The turkey is especially delicious because of the pumpkin, caramel and ginger flavors. Pumpkin cupcakes are iced with caramel frosting and edged with caramel sprinkles to look like feathers, and the tail feathers are made from candy corn attached to a thin ginger cookie. Then name each turkey and let the fun begin!
- 24 standard Duncan Hines Moist Deluxe Spice cupcakes baked in white paper liners
- 24 mini Duncan Hines Moist Deluxe Spice cupcakes baked in white paper liners
- 1 cup Duncan Hines Creamy Home-Style Vanilla Frosting
- 24 thin orange flavored scalloped cookies (e.g. Anna's)
- 2 cups candy corn
- 1 cup chocolate candy melts, melted (if making the turkeys the night before)
- 1 can (16 ounces) plus 1 cup Duncan Hines Creamy Home-Style Caramel Frosting
- 1 1/2 cups chocolate jimmies
- 12 marshmallows
- 24 pieces harvest corn
- 1 roll strawberry fruit leather (e.g. Fruit by the Foot)
- 48 brown candy coated chocolate covered sunflower seeds
- 1/2 cup Duncan Hines Dark Chocolate Fudge frosting
- 24 graham cracker sticks (e.g. Honey Maid Sticks)
- Spoon the vanilla and the chocolate frostings into separate ziplock bags. Snip a small corner from the bag with the vanilla frosting and pipe a dot of frosting near each scallop on cookies, to make 7 dots. Add the candy corn to the dots of frosting, pointed end facing center of cookies. (If making the night before, brush the backs of cookies with melted candy melts, to protect the cookies from moisture, and let set in the refrigerator until set, about 5 minutes) Continue with decorating.
- Place the chocolate sprinkles in a small bowl. Spread the caramel frosting on top of all of the cupcakes, standard and mini, and make smooth. Roll the edges of the standard cupcakes in the jimmies to cover. Dip one edge of the mini cupcakes in the jimmies to coat.
- Press the harvest corn in the center of the mini cupcakes, flat side in, to make the nose. Pipe 2 dots of the vanilla frosting on either side of the candy nose and insert the brown candies to make the eyes. Cut the red fruit leather into twenty four 1 1/2 inch tear drop shapes and lay over the harvest corn to make the waddle.
- Spoon the chocolate frosting into a ziplock bag. Snip a very small corner from bag and pipe names on the flat side of graham cookies.
- Snip a larger corner (1/4 inch) from bag with the chocolate frosting. Cut the marshmallows in half on the diagonal with clean scissors. Place a cut marshmallow near the edge of the cupcake, cut side down, with pointed end facing the center. Pipe a dot of chocolate frosting on side closest to the center. Place the decorated cookie with the empty edge pressed into the frosting to make the tail feathers. Add the mini cupcake on top and press into frosting slightly to secure.
- Pipe a small dot of chocolate frosting in front of cupcakes and attach the graham cookies with names.
- Arrange turkeys on table as place cards. Add 2 candy corns on the table next to the cupcakes to make the feet.
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Pooch7 (2 discussions) on Nov 22, 2011 at 03:23 PM
The reciepe description says "pumpking cupcakes" and the ingredients say "Spiced." The description says "ginger cookies" and the ingredients say "orange flavored." No wonder there has not been a review since 2009.
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madlibz05 (1 discussion) on Nov 30, 2009 at 04:08 PM
Same thing happened to me, Valeria! I spent 5 hours making these & they turned out so adorable...only to have them fall apart in the morning. I covered them in tin foil and yep, the cookies got soft and broke off. I think next time I'll put these in the fridge, uncovered...or just make the tails last minute?
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valerie413 (1 discussion) on Nov 26, 2009 at 01:23 PM
Spent 4 hours making these for 24 people last night for Thanksgiving Day only to wake up to have them all fallen apart!!! I had put them on a cookie sheet and then slipped them into a plastic bag for overnight. I guess the moisture softened the cookie and all the tails fell apart and some of the heads fell off!! Needless to say I was shocked!! The had looked sooo adorable and I was hoping to use them as place cards for everyone! Next time (if there is one, Ha!) I will not cover them! All in all though we had alot of fun making them and they really weren't that hard!!
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Adele66 (15 discussions) on Nov 10, 2009 at 07:38 PM
Okay, I'm going to bite the bullet and try this. I have no idea what its going to turn out like but it looks like a ton of fun, and if it's any good it will be on my menu for Thanksgiving. Such a cute dessert idea!
