The Nifty Foodie

For Thanksgiving, I knew I had a great excuse to try one of Bakerella’s creations again. I thought these were so so cute, and looked easy enough, so I started my adventures across Baton Rouge to find these cute decorations to make my turkeys!

I found everything I needed at Wal-Mart and Michael’s, so thankfully, it was easy to find what was needed.

I decided to start with making a basic white cake and add golden yellow and orange food coloring to each 8″ cake for Thanksgiving colors.

Turkey Cake Pops
Source: Bakerella

Ingredients:

• 9×13 baked and cooled cake (any flavor)
• chocolate candy melts or bark
• 2 cups of buttercream (any flavor)
• espresso beans (makes turkey’s head)
• rainbow chip sprinkles (makes turkey’s beak)
• red heart sprinkles (makes turkey’s snood…and yes, I googled to find the correct term for that body part LOL!)
• stick pretzels (makes turkey’s legs)
• caramel candy corn (makes turkey’s feathers)
• black gel decorating icing or black food coloring pen (to draw eyes)
• lollipop sticks

Directions:

1. Using your hands, crumble cooled cake into small crumbs in a bowl. Add buttercream, one dollop at a time, mixing thoroughly, until the mixture can form easily into shapes. Be careful, because putting too much icing will make the mixture very sticky and difficult to dip into chocolate.
2. Form the cake mixture into balls and then stick them in the freezer for about 20 minutes to set.
3. In the meantime, put your chocolate in a double boiler to melt it. Take the cake balls out a few at a time, and put the lollipop stick in through the bottom. Then, dip in chocolate and set on a cookie sheet to dry.
4. After all cake balls are dry, using chocolate as a glue, affix the decorations onto the cake ball to turn it into a turkey!