It’s Never To Late to Be Thankful
Better late then never.
I am thankful that it is never too late to be thankful.
Over here in Austria Thanksgiving is not a tradition and it is not my tradition. However since moving to Austria and having so many American friends we are always invited to a friend’s annual thanksgiving party. It’s something I look forward to each year now and very thankful to this wonderful friend for inviting us.
I know this is too late as I wanted it to be a surprise for my friend and the guest’s at the party but maybe it’s something you can do for your next Thanksgiving celebration.
I stumbled across this easy craft project here, whilst I was searching for Thanksgiving cupcake ideas. I didn’t have orange and brown cupcake liners so instead I used crepe paper. It turned out well I think?
Here is what you will need:
Buttons large and small
Hot glue gun
Skewers or candy sticks
Candy corn
Crepe paper in brown, yellow/orange and red
What to do:
Cut the crepe paper into 3 different round sizes (I made templates out of cardboard and traced out the circles):
- Brown 11cm diameter
- Yellow/Orange 10.5cm diameter
- Red 9.5cm diameter
1 of each colour per turkey topper
Lay the 3 circles together from largest to smallest and fold in half.
Break the skewers in half otherwise they will be too long. But if you are using normal candy/lollipop sticks you’ve saved yourself a step.
Using the skewer poke a hole in the center.
Cut slits into the crepe paper to create feathers
Glue approx 2.5cm – 3cm of the skewer in place. You need this much inside the crepe paper for when you glue the buttons and candy corn in place, if not you turkey will flop down as the crepe paper is not that sturdy.
Make sure you also glue in between the layers of crepe so that they all stick together, only a small amount of glue between each layer is required.
Glue buttons into place, large button as the body and smaller button as the head.
Glue candy corn into place as the beak.
So this is what it should look like. Large button on the bottom, small button on the top and candy corn as the beak on the bottom of the small button. Now you can see what I mean about leaving 2.5cm – 3cm of the skewer inside as support.
The turkeys ready to party.
Sweet Potato Cupcakes with Toasted Marshmallows
(recipe adapted from Cooking Classy)
Ingredients:
Topping:
Directions:
Whoala!! My Thanksgiving cupcakes. Time to *gobble gobble*
I am thankful I finally managed to post this.
I am thankful to all my readers for all your support, likes and comments.
😉
This is officially the most intelligent idea and cupcake I have seen on the internet. Putting marshmallows (mini ones!) on top of the cupcake instead of frosting is INGENIOUS!!! Love it! ~nerdwithtaste.wordpress.com
Thank you but I can’t take all the credit. I saw it on line awhile back and always wanted to try it.
These are so cute…and the sweet potato cupcakes sound like a very interesting recipe…and who can resist the marshmallows…lovely! 🙂
Great DIY Angela and I’ve never heard of sweet potato cupcakes with marshmallows! It must’ve been a feast! Happy belated Thanksgiving!
Ohh, I wish I’d seen your sweet potato cupcakes recipe for Thanksgiving! Came here from GIG, btw 🙂
Hi Audrey, thanks for stopping by. You can still making the sweet potato cupcakes even if it’s not thanksgiving. They are really quite nice & not too sweet 🙂
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I can attest to the fact that the cupcakes were even more delicious than they looked! And the turkey decorations were a huge hit and the source of many an “ooh” and “ahhh”!! 😀 They were quite the hit!! Thanks so much again!!!
ohhh you are a genius! 😀
Angela this is definitely one of your most inspired posts! I love the little turkeys and the cupcakes OMG I gonna get me some sweet potatoes and make them for sure!!!! Congratulations!!!
Those are adorable! Love them 😀 xoxo
The cupcakes are so cute, Angela! Btw, will be making the pumpkin seed oil posting this Friday 🙂 Will let you know when its up…
Thanks and can’t wait to read your post 🙂
Love the turkey sticks. They’re so cute!
Thanks Johnny 😉