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Looking down at cupcakes with chocolate frosting and red, orange, yellow icing stripes, each topped with candy googly eyes.

Turkey Pull-Apart Cupcakes

Arrange 24 frosted cupcakes in a diamond shape to create a turkey pull-apart cake with colorful rosette tail feathers and candy eyes.
Course Dessert
Cuisine American
Servings 24 servings

Ingredients
  

  • 24 fully baked and cooled cupcakes (prepared from your preferred cake mix)
  • Chocolate frosting
  • Red frosting
  • Orange frosting
  • Yellow frosting
  • Disposable piping bags
  • Large open star piping tip
  • Candy googly eyes

Instructions
 

  • Bake and cool cupcakes:

    Bake the cupcakes using your chosen cake mix according to the box directions to get 24 cupcakes. Let them cool entirely before decorating.
  • Arrange in diamond shape:

    Place the cooled cupcakes on a board in a diamond shape that resembles a turkey.
  • Pipe rosette decorations:

    Decorate the cupcakes: Fill a piping bag fitted with a large star tip with chocolate frosting and pipe a rosette on the bottom center cupcake (the turkey's body) and the cupcake immediately above it (the head). For the remaining cupcakes, use separate bags with red, orange, and yellow frosting to pipe colorful rosettes that form the turkey's tail feathers.
  • Attach eyes, beak, wattle:

    Attach candy googly eyes to the head cupcake. Using orange frosting, pipe a small beak; with red frosting, pipe a wattle on the front of the head cupcake.
  • Pipe orange feet:

    Pipe two feet below the turkey's body on the board using orange frosting.
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