Thanksgiving Cake Ideas

Thanksgiving cake ideas usually have to do with turkeys but you can really get creative and use Native Americans and pilgrims, the Mayflower or even a cornucopia. You may start a new family tradition when you present your new holiday theme cake at dessert time. Submit your thanksgiving cakes below.

Video Tutorial- Thanksgiving Cake

Without much trouble, you can transform a simple round cake into a Thanksgiving Turkey cake. This video provides systematic instructions to create an unmistakable Tom Turkey cake.

Free Cake Decorating Ideas:

Here are a few suggestions that may spark your own unique Thanksgiving cake ideas.  

• Find a coloring picture of Thanksgiving and transfer it onto a frosted cake with a toothpick. You can read about how to do that here.

• Use oval shaped cookies to decorate turkey feathers.
• Make a stencil of a thanksgiving design, and create a butter cream frosting transfer.


• Use a turkey cake decorating pattern to make a cake image. we'll show you how to use them.

If you find this type of project daunting in the rush of holiday preparation, you could create a cake from traditional vegetables or fruits associated with Thanksgiving dinner. A cinnamon sweet potato cake or a cranberry, pear, and apple crumb cake adorned with decorating picks such as Thanksgiving turkeys, pilgrim boys and girls, or cornucopia will fit the festive decor.

Thanksgiving Cupcake Ideas

Cupcakes, the versatile baked good that can be turned into sweet replicas of corn on the cob, turkey legs, even mashed potatoes and gravy with the application of skittles, starburst, caramel, candy chips, and butter cream frosting. Candy corn turns into turkey tail feathers and a turkey beak.

Cupcakes decorated as the fruits and vegetables of a cornucopia, or decorated as traditional Thanksgiving characters of Native Americans, pilgrims and turkeys contribute to the holiday atmosphere. You can even use the cupcake as a base and decorate with homemade candies formed with small pumpkin, small turkeys or cornucopias chocolate molds.


Thanksgiving cupcake ideas video



See below for some great turkey cupcake ideas.

Available Cake Pan Molds

Nordic Ware has a 3D turkey cake and pumpkin pan that helps the serious baker make a Thanksgiving cake like no other. A recipe that comes with the pan or an angel food cake recipe will both work as the foundation for a great centerpiece.

The 3 D cakes require time and planning, as the cake should remain in the baking pan overnight and it takes patience to decorate and put it together.


A variety of baking pan molds provides Thanksgiving cake ideas that are easier to make than the 3 D cakes.

Cornucopia cake molds
Pumpkin cake molds
Pantastic Plastic Thanksgiving Turkey Pan
Wilton’s Little Hero Pan for making pilgrims
The Wilton Turkey Gobbler Cake Pan that doubles as Native American mold

You can frost these cakes with the traditional decorating bag and tips or use a butter cream transfer. Ultimately, the decorated product is an eye-catching cake that attests to your commitment to make a special contribution to the holiday.


Thanksgiving cake ideas inspire your unique holiday creation to add to the traditional pies on the dessert table. The cake puts your unique signature on this special holiday steeped with tradition, good food and good company.



 

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