Cutest Ever Turkey Cupcakes

Ingredients:

1 box chocolate or yellow cake mix baked as cupcakes according to package diretions

1 can chocolate frosting

Oval shortbread cookies (keebler sandies right bits shortbread)

Candy corn pieces

1 tube white decorating frosting

1 tube black cake decorating gel

Red fruit leather

Directions:

Bake and frost cupcakes.  Place 1 cookie down flat in the center of the cupcake to make the head and press 1 cookie on an angle sticking out vertically on each side for the wings. 

Press in a row or two of candy corn at the top of the cupcake behind the head to form tail feathers.  To make an eye, add a small dot of white icing to the head, then add a dot of gel for a pupil. 

For a beak, cut the white tip from a piece of candy corn and press it in place.  To make the wattle, cut a 1" square of fruit leather.  Roll it into a tube and stick it in place over the beak.