I decided to make Turkey Cupcakes for my Thanksgiving treat, and I wanted to find a recipe that Mr. Toddler could help with.  I came across these Cupcakes which just look so adorable–almost too cute to Gobble UP.  I got the recipe here, at Disney Family Fun.

Ingredients

• 24 frosted cupcakes
• 24 Nutter Butter cookies
• 2-3 tablespoons of white frosting or decorator’s gel

• Mini chocolate chips
• Fruit leather, various flavors and colors
• toothpicks

Instructions

1. To make each turkey, press the lower portion of a Nutter Butter cookie into a frosted cupcake for the bird’s head.
2. Use tiny dabs of frosting to stick on mini-chocolate chip eyes and a red fruit leather wattle.
3. For each turkey’s tail, use a butter knife to cut out a dozen feather shapes (about 3 inches long and 1 inch wide) from fruit leather.
4. Lay 6 of the feather shapes on a flat surface and place a wooden toothpick lengthwise atop each so that one end of the toothpick extends about an inch below the feather. Layer another fruit leather feather layer atop each of the 6 shapes, sandwiching the toothpicks between them.
5. Press the 2 layers together to make them stick, then fringe the edges of the feather with a butter knife. Now your child can stick the colored feathers into the cupcake behind the cookie head.

I ended up substituting fruit roll up for orange slices candy and it worked great! Mr. Toddler of course approved of the delicious CUPCAKE!