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Ava and I made turkey cupcakes for her Thanksgiving party at preschool today.

We had planned to use this recipe from Martha Stewart, but I thought it probably it crossed the line on the teacher’s “no candy or other choking hazards” rule. So, instead we made sugar cookies, rolling the dough out so it was thin and light. Fortunately, I had come across an exclamation point cookie cutter while looking for the number two cutter in advance of Liv’s birthday.  A ribbon of chocolate bark held the three tail feathers together.

While I worked on that, Ava rolled marshmallows in toasted coconut. (She had a little more help that she would have liked.)

Each head got two chocolate jimmies for eyes, a candy corn beak and a heart-shaped waddle.

We made chocolate cupcakes, and Ava topped them with chocolate frosting and more toasted coconut.

Then, we adhered pretzel sticks to the back of the tails with chocolate bark, and inserted them into the cupcakes. We used pretzel sticks to secure the heads as well.

When I told Bryan that I needed to run to the store to buy supplies for little chocolate pilgrim hats, he took away my apron and spatula. Next year…

One highlight of the process—Olivia added “gobble, gobble” to her collection of animal noises, although we hear “I need cake,” far more frequently!