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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!
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…
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
- Cookie Cutter – flower shape 3-4 inch is best
- Rolling pin
- Cookie Sheet
- Decorator bags and large petal tip – decorator tip
- Tip #4 for the feet
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
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
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
Step 4: More Feathers
- Now fill in with extra feathers
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
Now it’s time for the candy corn. And you are done.
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
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees, spray cookie sheets with non-stick cooking spray
- Combine the flour and baking powder, set aside.
- Cream the sugar and butter.
- Add egg and extracts, mix well.
- Gradually add the flour mixture and beat until well combined.
- Roll out dough and cut out shapes
- 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.
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.
How can I make the frosting flavors????? Please gime me the recipe, thanks.
Hi Danya, the frostings don’t have flavors, they are just colored with the Fall colors that are listed in the post. If you need a frosting recipe, here is one – http://hoosierhomemade.com/buttercream-frosting/
These are so cute! My girls would love to make these.
What “sweet” turkeys … and so colorful too!
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!!!
So excited you like the Turkey Cookies!Thanks for stopping by!
~Liz
These are so fun!! Kids would love these!
Thanks for stopping by, Jessica! Thrilled you like the Turkey Cookies!
~Liz
These are ADORABLE!!!
Thanks Sue! The Turkey Cookies were fun to make!
Thanks for stopping by!
~Liz