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    Home » Dessert Recipes » Cupcakes

    Thanksgiving Cupcakes with Chocolate Pilgrim Suit Cupcake Wrappers

    Published: Nov 23, '13 · Modified: Apr 20, '21 · By: Beth · This post may contain affiliate links.

    Your dinner guests will fall in love with these luscious chocolate Thanksgiving Cupcakes. Each chocolate cupcake is wrapped in a milk chocolate cupcake wrapper that looks like a pilgrim suit. They are the perfect ending to your Thanksgiving dinner. 

    Thanksgiving Pilgrim Suit Cupcakes | HungryHappenings.com

    Making edible chocolate cupcake wrappers has become a bit of an obsession for me this week. I began with one simple Christmas wrapper idea, then couldn't stop and ended up making an entire series of festive holiday designs. I figured while I was playing in the kitchen, I'd come up with at least one for Thanksgiving.

    I don't recall ever eating a cupcake at Thanksgiving dinner. Have you? Are they a popular dessert for this holiday? I'm not sure, but, I couldn't resist making a pilgrim suit cupcake wrapper, anyway.

    Your dinner guests will fall in love with these luscious chocolate Thanksgiving Cupcakes. Each chocolate cupcake is wrapped in a milk chocolate pilgrim suit cupcake wrapper that looks like a pilgrim suit. They are the perfect ending to your Thanksgiving dinner. 

    I thought starting out the holiday series with a simple design was a great idea. Each cupcake wrapper is made using modeling chocolate. Have you made modeling chocolate yet? If not, the time is now. It takes two ingredients, chocolate and corn syrup. It has a similar texture of fondant, is as easy to work with, but tastes so much better. I can't imagine eating a cupcake wrapped in fondant, but would gladly gobble up cupcakes wrapped in milk, dark, or white modeling chocolate, and this week, I sure have.

    Thanksgiving dessert ideas

    If you don't want to make your own modeling chocolate, you can buy ready made tubs from Choco-Pan. It comes in dark and white. You can color the white using coloring or you can even mix the two to get a nice light brown for these wrappers.

    Cute Thanksgiving recipes

    Thanksgiving Cupcakes with Edible Cupcake Wrappers - Milk Chocolate Pilgrim Suit

    You'll Need:

    modeling chocolate* (recipe can be found on my Chocolate Making Tips page)
    cupcakes
    frosting
    non-stick baking mat (or use a gallon size zip top bag)
    large fondant rolling pin or wooden rolling pin
    pastry wheel, pizza wheel, or knife

    *For this project I used milk modeling chocolate for the wrapper, dark modeling chocolate for the band, and peanut butter modeling chocolate (made using Wilton Peanut Butter Candy Melts) for the buckle. If you don't want to make all three, just use milk chocolate and color some black for the band and add some yellow to make the buckle. You could also add gold luster dust to the buckle. You can see how I used that technique to make my Chocolate Pilgrim Hat Cups, here.

    It's hard to tell you how much modeling chocolate you will need. It will depend on the thickness of each wrapper and the size of your cupcakes. I used about 1.5 ounces for each wrapper, plus the decorations. So estimating 2 ounces per wrapper would be a good idea.

    Instructions:

    Go here to get a copy of a cupcake wrapper template. Cut out around the template. Wrap it around one of your cupcakes, to see if it is the right size.

    You need the template to overlap at the ends by at least ½ inch, so adjust the template as needed. Re-size then cut out a new template. My cupcakes were big, so I had to enlarge the template. If you are planning to make a lot of cupcakes, you can either print out several templates, or laminate one.

    Cupcake wrappers

    The best way to roll out modeling chocolate is to pat it into a large round disc, place it on a non-stick baking mat, use a fondant rolling pin to roll it out to about ⅛th inch thickness. If you have two mats, you can use one on top of the modeling chocolate too.

    See instructions for rolling out modeling chocolate using a large zip top bag, here.Set the template on the modeling chocolate and use a pastry or pizza wheel to cut out around it. You can use a knife, just be very careful to not cut into your mat.

    Cute Thanksgiving recipes

    Roll out some black or dark modeling chocolate, use the cupcake wrapper template as a guide to cut out curved strips for the belt. Roll out some peanut butter or light tan or yellow modeling chocolate. Cut out belt buckles. I cut out a small square, using a metal cutter, then cut out around it using a knife.

    Attach the belt and buckle to the modeling chocolate cupcake wrapper using water. Just brush a very light coating of water on the back side of the decorations then press them down on the chocolate wrapper to adhere.

    Chocolate cupcake recipe

    Wrap the decorated wrapper around your cupcake sealing the seams with some water. Frost cupcakes. (Picture was taken for another project, thus the lack of decorations.)

    Thanksgiving dessert ideas

    I suggest wrapping your cupcakes the day you will use them. You can make the cupcake wrappers ahead of time and store them in an airtight container to keep the flexible. Modeling chocolate hardens a bit as it dries and will have the consistency of a Tootsie Roll. It will hold it's shape well, but still be soft enough to easily bite into. Keeping the cupcake wrappers stored in Tupperware or Rubbermaid containers will help to keep the modeling chocolate soft and flexible.Do NOT refrigerate.

    These Thanksgiving Cupcakes are meant to be eaten using a fork, and the entire thing is edible.

    Your dinner guests will fall in love with these luscious chocolate Thanksgiving Cupcakes. Each chocolate cupcake is wrapped in a milk chocolate pilgrim suit cupcake wrapper that looks like a pilgrim suit. They are the perfect ending to your Thanksgiving dinner. 

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    Hi, I'm Beth Jackson Klosterboer, a professional chocolatier & baker, cookbook author, and event planner. I love sharing recipes for happy occasions here on Hungry Happenings. I also create easy fudge recipes to share at HowToMakeEasyFudge.com, rice krispie treat recipes at HowToMakeCerealTreats.com, and easy cookie recipes at HowToMakeEasyCookies.com
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    1. lupus info

      November 05, 2015 at 5:58 am

      Wow! They are so cute!! Your site is so amazing!!

      Reply
      • Beth

        November 05, 2015 at 9:10 pm

        Thanks so much!

        Reply
    2. Erin

      November 26, 2013 at 5:00 pm

      Wow what a great thanksgiving treat! I'd love for you to share this tutorial with our Life iterated link party! This week's party is now live 🙂

      Erin
      theviewfromfiveten.com

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    3. Hannah Marie

      November 25, 2013 at 10:15 pm

      These are so darn cute!!!

      Reply
    4. Mike @ Semi Sweet

      November 25, 2013 at 2:13 pm

      I never worked with modeling chocolate, but after seeing this I totally want to now! Such a great idea!

      Reply
      • beth

        November 25, 2013 at 5:18 pm

        I highly recommend trying modeling chocolate. I love it and know you will too! I can only imagine the designs you will create with your artistic ability:)

        Reply
    5. Mike @ Semi Sweet

      November 25, 2013 at 2:12 pm

      I never worked with modeling chocolate, but after seeing this I totally want to now! Such a great idea!

      Reply
    6. Anonymous

      November 24, 2013 at 6:32 pm

      I really love this one. Thanks you for it. Trish

      Reply
    7. MissyB_in_NJ

      November 24, 2013 at 3:24 pm

      Oh NO! I can't believe I have to choose between making this and making the pilgrim hats! AHHHH!!!!! Decisions, decisions!!!!!

      Reply
      • beth

        November 24, 2013 at 5:25 pm

        That is tough decision:) I hope whichever you choose, they turn out great! Have a Happy Thanksgiving.

        Reply
    8. Megan - The Emotional Baker

      November 24, 2013 at 2:15 pm

      How creative - and - what could be better than an EDIBLE cupcake wrapper! Thanks for sharing 🙂

      Reply
      • beth

        November 24, 2013 at 3:07 pm

        Thank, Megan:) I agree. I just gave a bunch of these cupcakes to friends and they raved about them!

        Reply
    9. Kakaru Koireng

      November 24, 2013 at 10:08 am

      Yum it looks so delicious. Do you also sell them ?

      Reply
      • beth

        November 24, 2013 at 12:32 pm

        Thank you, Kakaru. Sorry, I don't sell them. I just make them to share here on my blog. I do sell chocolates, but being my candy kitchen is currently in my home, I can only sell in Ohio.

        Reply
    10. Vanessa

      November 24, 2013 at 1:43 am

      Okay! This is the cutest thing I've ever seen. Hmmm...now I need to see if I will have time to make it before Thursday!

      Reply
      • beth

        November 24, 2013 at 2:17 am

        It's always crazy getting ready for Thanksgiving. I hope you find the time to make some! Have a happy Thanksgiving.

        Reply
    11. Patricia @ ButterYum

      November 23, 2013 at 10:40 pm

      Okay, over the top adorbs!

      Reply
      • beth

        November 24, 2013 at 2:16 am

        Thank you, Patricia. I love to me over the top!

        Reply
    12. Brenda @ SweetSimpleStuff

      November 23, 2013 at 5:58 pm

      These cupcakes should win the "Best Dressed Cupcake" award! Your photos show off the chocolate yummyness!

      Reply
      • beth

        November 24, 2013 at 2:15 am

        They do look pretty spiffy, don't they? Thanks, Brenda:)

        Reply
    13. The Partiologist

      November 23, 2013 at 4:06 pm

      I always think of belting a wrapper for Santa but never for Thanksgiving - this is perfect!

      Reply
    14. Morgan

      November 23, 2013 at 2:01 pm

      This is beyond adorable Beth! I cannot wait to see all of the other festive designs you come up with, as I am sure they are great!! And I think I will now have to try making one of these myself!!! As who could resist not eating and edible wrapper!!

      Reply
      • beth

        November 24, 2013 at 2:14 am

        Thanks, Morgan. I can't wait to re-create your Rudolph wrapper. I have four Christmas designs done and have a few more ideas. I can't wait to share them!

        Reply

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