Triple Dog Dare - oops!

So sometimes my big mouth gets me into trouble. This was one of those times. I dared another Allrecipes Ambassador to make this recipe Delicious Fish Smoothies. Well not only did he make it and photograph it, he made a video

 



So then it was my turn .. my dare Thanksgiving Leftover Cupcakes No  one had made this nor reviewed it and frankly, turkey and gravy in a cupcake did not sound all that appetizing.  But I decided to throw caution and my poor stomach to the wind.

 

I made a herb crusted turkey breast today so this first thing I did was chop up the turkey and chopped off the herb crust...



And so it begins

 

The next step was to grind up the turkey meat

 

Pureed Turkey  yummy



 Then I added the rest of the cupcake ingredients: flour, sugar, butter, canola oil, salt, vanilla extract and baking powder because unleavened turkey cupcakes would be gross :P

 

Mess O Ingredients
 

 The recipe didn't says to mix everything up in the food processor, but I am lazy so in it all went 

Ready to mix into yumminess
 

 

 I whirled it up, but it didn't look like anything I could pour.. like batter

 

Crumbly, like cookie batter

So I read the recipe notes and it said it it looked dry, add more oil.. so I did, It looked kinda greasy and then I knew what I needed to add

 

To try and mimic poultry juice

If I had turkey stock I would have used that, but I didn't so  made due :P I whirled it all up again and ta-da... turkey cupcake batter

 

And NO I didn't eat any batter

I baked for 20 minutes at 350 and then we had freshly baked turkey cupcakes

 

They look normal but I know they have baked in weirdness

The next step was to make the glaze/icing. It called for turkey gravy which I didn't have so I made a quick chicken gravy 

 

 

See the pepper flakes.. I made it real!

 

There are the glaze ingredients

 

Yeah  looks good, doesn't it?

I made some into a glaze and some into a thicker frosting

 

gravy frosting.. who woulda thunk?

 

And here are the final cupcakes...

 

 

                            Glazed cupcake

Iced cupcakes

 

Now I am sure you are wondering how did they taste. Well the iced ones were way too sweet from all the sugar to make an icing - yuk.. but the glazed and plain cupcakes were interesting. You definitely can taste something meaty and roasty going on but it wasn't unpleasant. Would I make these again?As a novelty.. sure.. but otherwise, probably not  lol