Since it’s Friday (woo hoo!) I thought we’d do something fun. These little turkeys (speaking of turkeys, did you see what mine did yesterday??)
are perfect for school parties, family nights, and Thanksgiving place
holders. At the end there’s an easy pilgrim hat as well. I don’t
really know where this idea originated from- I made the turkeys as a kid
as I’m sure many of you have and I’ve seen the little hats all over the
internet. Both Turkey Day classics, so go have some fun!
Ingredients:
Double Stuff Oreo Cookies
Candy Corn
Whoppers
Peanutbutter Cups
Chocolate frosting
Yellow Frosting
Optional: Red frosting
Optional: black sprinkles for eyes
*For these kinds of things I love to use the little pre-filled tubes
of colored frosting you can buy in the baking isle. The chocolate is
easy to make, and homemade actually works a little better because you
can make it stiff. However for the colored details like yellow and red,
these little tubes are great. It doesn’t really matter what they taste
like and they last forever (which is both cool and disturbing at the
same time.) I’m using store-bought tubes for everything here purely for
convenience- works great!
First step: Grab a cookie. You don’t have to put frosting in there,
but I like to because it holds in the candy corn a little better. Just
give it a little squeeze of chocolate.
Then stuff in your candycorn. If you’re in some sort of candy corn
shortage, you can cut off the white tips to use later for your beaks. I
think the candy corn sticks in better with the tip so I leave it on.
Go ahead and do all of the cookies through this step.
Next put a dab of frosting on the opposite end of the cookie and
secure it to the “base” cookie. It helps to place them next to a wall
as they dry so they stay put.
While those are drying, unwrap your PB cups. Take a sharp knife and
cut a sliver off of one end. (I don’t need to tell you what to do with
the sliver, do I?) It helps to gently cut in a sawing motion so you
don’t break the PB cup. (Although I wouldn’t have to tell you what to
do with a broken one either, would I?) Cut it from the bottom like I
show here:
Once those are ready, flip your cookies over, but you may find it’s
easy to keep them next to the wall. My frosting was a bit soft, so they
needed the extra support.
Place a dab of frosting on the pb cup, and place it on the cookie like so:
Now those little guys will need heads, so glue a whopper on there
with frosting as well. I put frosting on the side of the whopper that
hits both the cookie and the PB cup. Wouldn’t want a turkey running
around with its head cut off, would we??
While they’re still laying there, use a dab of frosting (I use
yellow) and glue on the white tip of a candy corn for a beak. Put two
yellow dots on for eyes, and for the black spots in the eyes you can use
a dab of chocolate frosting, or a mini chocolate chip, or a little
sprinkle like I’ve used. A sprinkle is really the perfect size if you
have them.
Once the beak stays put you can flip them over and draw on some
little yellow feet. If you have red frosting too (usually comes in a
set with the tube of yellow) you can add a little gobble gobble. Or
whatever that thing is called. What
is it called? I’m too lazy
to google. Extra giveaway entry for the first person who can tell me.
Okay not really but I’ll think you’re awesome.
And there you go, cute as can be!
These make really cute place card holders too, for either a kid, or adult table! I just made little name tags with my Silhouette
(what’s
that you say? You’re bummed you didn’t win a Silhouette and you wish
we’d give away another one? Okay how about this month? You didn’t hear
that from me. Yes you did. Don’t tell. Do tell. Tell Everyone.
Forget it) and then I popped them in there on toothpicks.
How cute is my little turkey family?
Stick one on each plate and everyone will say “Awwwwwwe….” If you
have kids old enough to handle making them, it’s a fun project for them
to be in charge of.
They’re also darling combined with pilgrim hats.
Those are just marshmallows dipped in chocolate and placed on a fudge
strip cookie. Use yellow frosting to make the buckle. (Pretty much
the Thanksgiving version of the Halloween witch hats seen in this post!)
Source:
ourbestbites
