DIY! Wilton's Thanksgiving Turkey Cake! instructions!

 Wilton Thanksgiving Turkey Cake

Do you wanna impress your guests this Holiday or Thanksgiving? Then just follow these easy steps for a Thanksgiving Turkey Cake! All you need is a Wilton Turkey Cake Pan, A 2 Layer Cake Recipe, Butter Cream Icing, Food Coloring, Some Piping Bags and Tips.

You can use whatever cake recipe you want for this. Also you can be creative and use whatever colors and tips you want to icing this cake.

First we started out with a two layered yellow mix box cake, normally we make our cakes from scratch but we wanted to try something different. Also, using a box cake can save you some time.

Follow the cake instructions on the box. We used Pam Baking Spray to coat our pan, if you don't have that than oil or butter the pan and coat with flour. After baking, let cake cool 10 minutes on a wire wrack.

After 10 minutes flip the cake out onto a cake board and let cool for an hour or more.  You can even bake the cake a day before icing it.

We used Vanilla Butter cream Icing and Chocolate Butter cream Icing to decorate the cake.

Step One: We started with outlining the turkey feathers and body with chocolate butter cream icing with a Wilton tip number 3. We used cocoa powder to get the brown color since we didn't have brown food coloring but you can use brown or black food coloring for the outline. The outline does not have to be perfect!

Step Two: Then we used a Wilton tip number 17 and brown icing to fill in the Turkey's head and body. For the Eye we used white butter cream icing and a Pearl sprinkle.

 

Step Three: After filling in the body and head we used Wilton Tip 13 and white butter cream icing to fill the tips of the feathers and Wilton tip 17 for the chest. We did the part that would be the side of his wings brown and his chest white. 

 

 

 

Side Step: After icing one layer for his side wings, we thought it looked a bit plain so we went over them again and made connecting half circles to look like wing feathers and then we lined the inside of the wings with white to really make them pop out.

Step Four: We used red and a little white butter cream icing to do his gobbler and five bottom feathers with Wilton tip number 17.

Step Five: We two toned the icing with Orange and Red butter cream icing. We used a tip number 17 for the outer layer of feathers and than a Tip number ? for the inter layer of feathers. For the bottom feathers we added white icing to the red and orange icing to make it a 3 tone look.
Note: You don't have to do two-toned colors, you can do the colors separate if you prefer.

Step Six: Around the edge of the cake we did a rose border going around the cake with a Large Wilton Star Tip. You don't have to do that you can just icing the cake around the edge.

Last Step: Serve and Enjoy!!