Everyone make cookies for Christmas and chocolates at Easter, eats gummy and gross candies at Halloween (gummy worms, gummy body parts, what next!), but what about Thanksgiving?

Here’s a cute, easy treat to celebrate the upcoming holiday (not to mention impress the inlaws).

Chocolate Midnight Cupcakes

Ingredients

• 2 cups sugar
• 2 cups flour
• ¾ cup cocoa
• 1 cup hot coffee
• 2 eggs
• 2 tsp. Baking soda
• 1 tsp. Baking powder
• 1 tsp salt
• 1 cup milk
• 1 cup oil
• 1 tsp. Vanilla

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350
2. Combine all ingredients in large mixing bowl.
3. In cupcake pan, spoon batter ¾ of the way full.
4. Bake for 25 to 35 minutes or until toothpick comes out clean.

Chocolate Buttercream Icing

Ingredients

• 2 2/3 cups 10x sugar
• ¼ cup cocoa
• 6 Tbs. butter
• 5 to 6 Tbs. Milk
• 1 tsp. Vanilla

Directions

1. Combine sugar and cocoa in a small bowl.
2. Cream butter with ½ cup of sugar mixture in medium bowl. Alternately add remaining cocoas mixture and milk until icing is a spreading consistency.
3. Stir in vanilla.

To Decorate

Ingredients

• Candy Corn
• Chocolate Sprinkles

Directions

1. Icing cupcakes.
2. Using an icing bag or a Ziploc bag with one of the corners snipped off, pipe a small mound of icing on one side of the cupcake to look like the head of the turkey.
3. Add a piece of candy corn for a beak.
4. Use candy corn on opposite side for tail feathers. Push tips of the candy into the cake to hold in place.
5. Sprinkle chocolate sprinkles around tail and head to look like feathers.
6. Store loosely covered.