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Thanksgiving Turkey Cookies

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Thanksgiving Turkey Cookies

Grab the kids because it’s time to decorate these adorable Thanksgiving Turkey Cookies! They are easy to create too! You can use them on your dessert table or as place setting for your Thanksgiving Table!

TURKEY COOKIES FOR THANKSGIVING -- Grab the kids! It's time to decorate these adorable Thanksgiving Turkey Cookies! They are easy to create too! Use them on your dessert table or as place setting for your Thanksgiving Table!

Won’t your kiddos love them? I think they would be darling on the Thanksgiving Kiddie Table! With some easy to find ingredients and a good sugar cookie recipe, you can make them too and the kiddos can help, let me show you how…

TURKEY COOKIES FOR THANKSGIVING -- Grab the kids! It's time to decorate these adorable Thanksgiving Turkey Cookies! They are easy to create too! Use them on your dessert table or as place setting for your Thanksgiving Table!

Thanksgiving Turkey Cookie Ingredients

  • Sugar Cookies -recipe below or your favorite recipe
  • Frosting – red, copper, yellow and black
  • White chocolate
  • Peanut Butter Cups – small and minis
  • Candy Eyes
  • Orange Tic-tacs
  • Candy Corn

Tools

 

TURKEY COOKIES FOR THANKSGIVING -- Grab the kids! It's time to decorate these adorable Thanksgiving Turkey Cookies! They are easy to create too! Use them on your dessert table or as place setting for your Thanksgiving Table!

Step 1: Baking the cookies

  • Roll out the dough and cut with a flower shape cookie cutter, bake
  • When the cookies are done, remove from oven and immediately cut 1/3 of the cookie with a knife
  • After the cookies are cool, melt a small amount of white Almond Bark in the microwave
  • Dip the edge of the cookie in the chocolate and attach to the smaller portion of the cookie at 90 degree angle
  • Let set until hard

TURKEY COOKIES FOR THANKSGIVING -- Grab the kids! It's time to decorate these adorable Thanksgiving Turkey Cookies! They are easy to create too! Use them on your dessert table or as place setting for your Thanksgiving Table!

Step 2: Turkey heads

  • Fit 2 decorator bags with #4 tips – fill one with red frosting, the other with black
  • Gently push the orange tic-tac into the mini peanut butter cup for the beak
  • Add a little black frosting above the beak and attach the eyes
  • Pipe on the waddle with red frosting

TURKEY COOKIES FOR THANKSGIVING -- Grab the kids! It's time to decorate these adorable Thanksgiving Turkey Cookies! They are easy to create too! Use them on your dessert table or as place setting for your Thanksgiving Table!

Step 3: Feathers and Feet

  • Pipe on feet with black frosting using a #4 tip
  • Fit 3 decorator bags with #104 tips {or other large flat tip} and fill each with red, copper and yellow frosting
  • Pipe on feathers
  • The number of feathers will determine the shape of your cookie

TURKEY COOKIES FOR THANKSGIVING -- Grab the kids! It's time to decorate these adorable Thanksgiving Turkey Cookies! They are easy to create too! Use them on your dessert table or as place setting for your Thanksgiving Table!

Step 4: More Feathers

  • Now fill in with extra feathers

TURKEY COOKIES FOR THANKSGIVING -- Grab the kids! It's time to decorate these adorable Thanksgiving Turkey Cookies! They are easy to create too! Use them on your dessert table or as place setting for your Thanksgiving Table!

Step 5: Body

  • Cut a small amount off the small peanut butter cup. I found a serrated knife worked best.
  • Place it on the cookie
  • Add the head

TURKEY COOKIES FOR THANKSGIVING -- Grab the kids! It's time to decorate these adorable Thanksgiving Turkey Cookies! They are easy to create too! Use them on your dessert table or as place setting for your Thanksgiving Table!

Now it’s time for the candy corn. And you are done.

TURKEY COOKIES FOR THANKSGIVING -- Grab the kids! It's time to decorate these adorable Thanksgiving Turkey Cookies! They are easy to create too! Use them on your dessert table or as place setting for your Thanksgiving Table!

TURKEY COOKIES FOR THANKSGIVING -- Grab the kids! It's time to decorate these adorable Thanksgiving Turkey Cookies! They are easy to create too! Use them on your dessert table or as place setting for your Thanksgiving Table!

Thanksgiving Turkey Cookies

Almond Sugar Cookies

Prep Time: 15 minutes
Cook Time: 10 minutes
Total Time: 25 minutes

The hint flavor of almond extract is great in these easy to make sugar cookies.

Ingredients

  • 3 cups Flour, all-purpose
  • 2 teaspoons Baking Powder
  • 1 cup Sugar
  • 2 sticks Butter
  • 1 Egg
  • 1/2 teaspoon Vanilla Extract
  • 1/2 teaspoon Almond Extract

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees, spray cookie sheets with non-stick cooking spray
  2. Combine the flour and baking powder, set aside.
  3. Cream the sugar and butter.
  4. Add egg and extracts, mix well.
  5. Gradually add the flour mixture and beat until well combined.
  6. Roll out dough and cut out shapes
  7. Bake at 350 degrees for about 10 minutes, if you like a soft sugar cookie, bake a little shorter, if you like a crisp cookie, bake a little longer.

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14 Comments

  1. This is a great recipe. I’m looking forward to making them again this Thanksgiving. I leave off the candy corn because some people don’t like it and the multicolored icing is beautiful.

  2. Danya Herrera says:

    How can I make the frosting flavors????? Please gime me the recipe, thanks.

  3. WOW those are adorable. I do NOT have enough patience to make something like that though LOL. I’d lose my mind. You’re so creative though!!!

    1. Thanks for stopping by, Jessica! Thrilled you like the Turkey Cookies!
      ~Liz

    1. Thanks Sue! The Turkey Cookies were fun to make!
      Thanks for stopping by!
      ~Liz

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