Save The Turkey - Eat Thanksgiving Cakes Instead
Although we keep talking about the turkey when it comes to thanksgiving food but - let's not kid ourselves- it's all about the sweet stuff. Pies, cobblers and cheesecakes are delicious but why not step up your game and treat all your senses this year. These thanksgiving cakes and thanksgiving treats are not only yummy but they can even serve as awesome decorations on the dinner table.
Thanksgiving Cakes Gallery And Thanksgiving Cake Ideas
Look at these awesome Thanksgiving cakes! Who said that a thanksgiving cake cannot be decorated? Popular themes are pumpkins, autumn leaves, nuts, berries and turkeys dead or alive.
Barrels and Pumpkins Thanksgiving Cake
Thanksgiving Dinner Table Cake
Pilgrim Turkey Cake Tutorial
Pumpkin Cake with Sleeping Cat
Topsy Turvey Thanksgiving Cake
Best Thanksgiving Cake Recipe
For cake decorators the cake not only has to be delicious, but it needs to be suitable for decoration purposes. Depending on how it's going to be decorated it needs to hold certain characteristics. This means that a base cake for carving might be denser and sturdier - mostly mud cake, while in the case of naked cakes it's important that they would not be prone to dry out. These are our - in our opinion- the best thanksgiving cake recipes for decorating.
Chocolate Mud Cake
Super Moist Chocolate Mud Base Cake (ideal for carving)
Cake Batter
- 1 cup of unsalted butter, softened
- 7 ounces of dark chocolate, chopped
- 2 cups of granulated sugar ½ cup of cocoa powder
- 1 ¼ cups of strong hot coffee
- 1 tablespoon of vanilla extract
- 3 large eggs
- 2 cups of all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon of baking powder
- 1 ½ teaspoons of baking soda
- ½ teaspoon of salt
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Easy Thanksgiving Treats
If you do not want to bake and decorate a cake, but rather make small but creative treats try these easy to make minis. These are also perfect for a thanksgiving party or for kids. All you need to do is to get creative with store-bought treats and mix and match rice crispy treats, peanut butter cups, pretzels, ice cream cones and candy corns.
Ice Cream Cone Wigwams
Chocolate Covered Pretzel Turkeys
Peanut Butter Cup Pilgrim Hats
Candy Corn And Pretzel Stick Thanksgiving Turkeys by Candyquick
Rice Krispie and Candy Corn Thanksgiving Turkey
Thanksgiving Cookies
Cookies are a classic for a reason. They are small, delish, colorful, easy and fast to make and can hold up until Christmas. Unless they disappear in minutes. 🙂
Circle Cutter Turkey Cookies by Make Me Cake Me
Pumpkin Pie Cookies by Cotati Sugar Mamas
Colorful Mix of Thanksgiving Cookies - Sweet Treats by Casey
Pilgrim Dress And Hat Cookies by Semi Sweet
Pumpkin Cookies With Delicate Royal Icing Decoration
Thanksgiving Cake Pops
Cake pops are my personal favorites when it comes to cake decorating. So much creativity and playfulness is one sweet bite. They are as easy to make as cookies, but they are three dimensional which gives room for crazy ideas. No wonder they're the number one choice for kid's parties.
Festive pumpkins
Sweet like turkey...
A-pop-corns
Pies, pies everywhere...
Wigwam cake pops
If You Don't Feel Like Decorating...
Doughnuts Spiced Pumpkin Doughnuts Recipe
Ingredients
- 2 tablespoons butter, softened
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/4 teaspoon ground ginger
- 1/8 teaspoon freshly grated nutmeg or a Dash of ground nutmeg
- 1/8 teaspoon ground cloves
- 1/2 cup fresh pumpkin cooked with the water drained out
- 1 egg
- 1 egg yolk
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
- 2 cups flour Vegetable oil for deep-fat frying
