Thanksgiving Cupcakes

Enjoy these ideas for Thanksgiving cupcakes. Please visit our Thanksgiving Symbols page to learn more about how to use these symbols as teaching tools.

Thanksgiving Cupcakes

Materials Needed for Pilgrim Cupcake:

White and Yellow Frosting

Chocolate Wafers

Reeses Peanut Butter Cup

Ziploc Bag for Piping Yellow Frosting

Secure Reeses onto wafer with white frosting and pipe a gold belt buckle on the front.

Pilgrim Hat Cupcakes

Materials Needed for Mayflower Cupcake:

Red, Blue, and Chocolate Frosting

Chocolate Marshmallow Pinwheel Cookies

Pretzel Sticks

Jumbo Marshmallows (Cut Diagonally)

Ziploc Bag for Piping Red Frosting

Cut pinwheel cookie in half and cover top with chocolate frosting. Use pretzel sticks to create sails.

Mayflower Cupcakes

Materials Needed for Plymoth Rock Cupcake:

Grey, Yellow, and Chocolate Frosting

Jumbo Marshmallows

Ziploc Bag for Piping Yellow Frosting

Frost the marshmallow with grey frosting and pipe “1620” onto it in yellow.

Plymoth Rock Cupcake

Materials Needed for Turkey Cupcake:

Red, Yellow, and Chocolate Frosting

Chocolate Marshmallow Pinwheel Cookies

Candy Kiss

Chocolate Wafers

Candy Corn

Ziploc Bags for Piping Frosting

Cut pinwheel cookie in half and place on cupcake. Pipe a thick “neck” with chocolate frosting and top with candy kiss. Pipe on face and legs. Frost the wafer with chocolate frosting and attach candy corns. Secure onto the back of the cupcake.

Turkey Cupcake

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