This was a 2-layer 8″ round spice cake with apple filling, iced in cream cheese icing. The turkey image was found in an online coloring book page. I traced the image on parchment paper and filled in with buttercream; then froze it for about 20 minutes before transferring it onto the cake.
We were asked to create a 21st birthday cake for somebody who eats nothing but chicken. This is how we created our Chicken Dinner Cake:- We cooked 2 x 10” square orange flavoured Madeira cakes. We cut them in half horizontally and filled them with lemon butter cream. We then stacked them on top of … Read more
This turkey cake is really simple. I just baked a 9-inch round dense chocolate cake, then covered it with buttercream icing which I colored yellow. I then cut out fondant in layers to create the turkey, using cookie cutters of various round shapes. The turkey feathers I drew a template for, and then cut around. … Read more
One of my friend’s commissioned me to make this turkey cake for her family’s Thanksgiving dinner. The cake was then driven to the final destination 4 hours away, so I had to make sure it would be intact and look the same when it arrived. The drumsticks were made from rice krispies treat, as per … Read more
My daughter and I had a blast making these turkey cupcakes for her 1st Grade Thanksgiving party at school. We started with both chocolate and white cake mix. (whatever your fancy!) We also picked up a bag of candy corns, strawberry fruit roll ups, box of Sandies Mini Shortbread cookies (100 Calorie), small black icing … Read more
My husband’s birthday is on November 22. He told me that all of his life, though he didn’t know why, he had wanted his birthday cake to be a turkey cake, and the closest anybody had ever gotten to it was a regular iced cake with a little plastic turkey on it. He said that … Read more
For Thanksgiving I wanted to make a turkey cake, but I didn’t want it to be a flat cake so I found this one and tried it out. I used the Rubber Ducky cake pan from Wilton to make this cake. I used pound cake, cake mix just to make sure that the feathers in … Read more
This turkey cake is my favorite recipe again – Hershey’s ultimate choc (recipe on back of cocoa box) since it holds up well to sculpting. I used a basic sheet cake pan and cut out the curves for the feathers and then used 2 different sized Pyrex bowls for the head and belly. For the … Read more
For this Thanksgiving Turkey Cake I used an eight X twelve rectangular pan for the bottom base and topped it with a cake baked in a football shaped cake pan. I used spice cake mix and cream cheese frosting. The drumsticks and wings were formed with rice krispie treats. I blended copper, brown and a … Read more
I made this Thanksgiving Turkey Cake for a family celebration this Thanksgiving. I started out using a yellow cake/pound cake mixture baked in the Wilton 3D bear pan. The rest of the batter I put into a 10″ round for the tail. I carved the bear into a turkey shape, using carvings to create the … Read more
I made this Homemade Thanksgiving Turkey Cake for my daughter’s thanksgiving feast. It is 100% edible and handmade. I made the face, legs, wings, banner, tail, and ax out of marshmallow fondant, then I covered with with chocolate ganache. After it set, I drew the chocolate feathers. As for the grass, I died coconut flakes. … Read more
Everyone seems to spend a lot of time carving round cakes or something, I highly recommend using the Wilton football cake pan – make 2 cakes and put them together, then simply notch the edges! The secret to getting this Roasted Turkey Cake just right was a 4 day process – day four, fondant cranberries … Read more