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Turkey Cups - A Unique Thanksgiving Dessert!

*makes 8 cups
Servings 8

Ingredients

  • 1 silicone shot glass mold
  • 15 oz melting chocolate wafers
  • 1 box white chocolate pudding
  • 1 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice
  • 1 package of small edible eyes
  • 1 container of christmas light sprinkles
  • 1 package of chocolate fondant
  • 1 disposable piping bag
  • 1 mini christmas light cookie cutter

Instructions

First Day

  • Using a double boiler, melt the chocolate.
  • Once melted, pour chocolate into the silicon molds and place into the freezer over night.
  • Once you place the mold into the freezer start cutting the feathers and molding the legs. Pour remaining chocolate into the piping bag and cut off a small part of the tip. This will act as the glue.
  • Work with the fondant to make it soft. Sprinkle a little bit of powder sugar onto a cutting board and roll out using a rolling pin just like you would for cookie dough
  • Use the cookie cutter and cut out 5 light shapes for each cup. A total 40 light shapes
  • Using the remaining fondant, pinch off some fondant about the size of a skittle and roll into logs for the legs
  • About 2 legs for each cup so you will need 16 logs
  • Pinch off some more fondant about the size of a mini M&M for the feet and roll into logs
  • 3 mini logs for each leg so 24 mini logs
  • Place the mini logs into a V shape with the 3rd toe going into the middle
  • Using the melted chocolate, add a little bit in the middle of the feet to hold all three pieces together
  • Repeat steps with remaining feet pieces
  • Let those dry for 2 hours before moving
  • Take 5 of the feather pieces and piece it togehter
  • Add a little bit of chocolate behind a feather piece to glue them together
  • Repeat steps with remaining feather pieces. Once done you should have 8 sets of feathers

Next Day

  • Once you pull out the chocolate molds out of the silicone mold place them onto a cutting board
  • Melt the chocolate in the piping bag to act as a glue again
  • Take 2 eyes for each cup
  • add a small drop of melted chocolate onto the back of the eyes and place them onto the chocolate mold
  • Place chocolate mold onto its back so that the eyes wont fall off while the chocolate is hardening
  • Add a drop of chocolate under the eyes and place a yellow and red christmas light sprinkle onto the melted chocolate for the beak and gobble
  • Repeat steps with remaining cups and let dry for 20 minutes
  • Pick the cups back up into a sitting postion
  • Add melted chocolate to the bottom part of the feather piece
  • Place feather piece onto the back part of the chocolate cup and hold for 2-3 minutes
  • With the cups still being cold from being in the freezer the melted chocolate should harden fast
  • Using a cup or can, place the feet up against the cup or can
  • Carefully place a leg close to the feet and add a little drop of melted chocolate where the leg and feet meet to connect them
  • repeat steps with remaining feet and legs
  • Let chocolate harden for 30 minutes before carefully moving them
  • Once 30 minutes is up, lightly flatten the back of the leg and add a drop of melted chocolate
  • Place the flatten part of the leg under the chocolate cup
  • Repeat steps with remaining legs
  • Let set for 30 minutes
  • Using a large mixing bowl, combine the pudding mix, milk and pumpkin pie spice and mix for 5 minutes until combined
  • Pipe the pudding into the chocolate cups