Many thanks to Airheads and Smiley 360 for the awesome free box of Airhead candy to make some fun holiday snacks with!
This project was way easier than it looks! Even the kids made some.
With Thanksgiving coming up, my thoughts turn to turkeys. And even the best roasted turkey isn’t as sweet as these.
Turkey Cupcakes
Cupcakes of your choice. I just made a box mix.
Icing of your choice. I just used the pre-made icing
blue, orange, and red Airheads
1 bag of Airheads bites
1 bag of Airheads Xtremes
Bake, cool, and ice your cupcakes.
Head: Open your bag of Airhead Bites.
Eyes: Open your blue airhead and cut off two tiny pieces. Roll them between your fingers into tiny balls and press them onto an Airhead bite for the eyes.
Beak: Open your orange airhead and cut of a small piece. Roll it into a ball and then make one end pointy for the beak, press this onto the airhead bite.
Gobbler: Open your red airhead and cut a small strip off the top edge. Fold it in half to make it a little thicker, press together, and then press onto the bottom of your airhead bite under your beak.
Set your turkey head in the middle of your cupcake.
Tail: Open your airhead Xtremes and cut off a piece about 1 1/2 inches long. Using a pair of clean kitchen scissors carefully cut between the colors. DO NOT cut all the way to the end of your Xtreme piece. Leave about 1/4 inch uncut at the end.
Fan open your colorful tail feathers and place the 1/4 inch uncut edge right behind your turkey head on the cupcake.
And, you have an adorable, tasty, turkey cupcake.
As a side note, I put these in a cake holder overnight and the moisture from the icing “melted” the candy a little bit so if you make these the day before, you’re going to want to refrigerate them overnight or wait and put the turkeys on at the last minute.
I received this product free for purposes of my post, all opinions are my own.
These are so cute! I’ve never seen anything like this before–so unique and creative!
My kids would love this so much!! So cute.
How cute! I might need to make this the week of Thanksgiving. Plus I love airheads!
OMG – these are SO Cute!!!
These are so cute! My kids would have a fun time helping me make these.
These are so cute!!!
My son would love making those cupcakes. The Turkey cupcakes are adorable.
My son used to like to trick me by giving me Air Heads then giggling when my mouth puckered. These are super cute.
So cute. The grandkids would love these.
if only I had kids living at home-mine are grown and on their own; they would have loved making these!!!
These are absolutely adorable. I’m going to make them with my son soon as I know it’d be fun for us and we’d end up with a tasty treat 🙂
oh! how cute.My daughter will love this.
These are adorable! My kids would love them!
These are absolutely adorable! Easily something I could do with my stepdaughters!
Those are great! My grandson would love to make those!
I got nervous, I thought there was going to be turkey meat in the cupcake! Although, I would like that, I think candy is also a delicious idea!
Mitch
Oh cute! What a fun idea!
These are so stinking cute! I love how easy and creative they are to do!
These are adorable. They are perfect for Thanksgiving!
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Looks good and fun to do with children 🙂
How adorable for the holidays!
These are SO cute!!! Bet they’re also really fun to make too!
These are adorable! I have a 6 year old and 2.5 year old who would LOVE doing these!! I’m hosting my first Thanksgiving this year.. I think these might be on the menu for the girls to help with.
They would love making these! My 7yr old and 4yr old had a blast helping me with these 🙂
Haha so cute! It’s a nice idea especially to involve kids.
These are super cute! My kids would love to “help” make these, then eat off all the turkeys 🙂
LOL – mine definitely did plenty of eating!