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Thanksgiving Cookie Turkeys

These turkey cookies not only add a fun and festive touch to the Thanksgiving table, but they also showed the care and effort put into the holiday preparations and create memories that will last for years to come.

Ingredients

  • Chocolate sandwich cookies
  • Jumbo malted milk balls
  • Candy corn
  • Chocolate frosting
  • Small candy eyes
  • Optional: white frosting

Instructions

  • The amount of supplies you need of course will vary with how many turkey cookies you want to make.
  • Start with two chocolate sandwich cookies, and spread the face of one fairly thickly with chocolate frosting.
  • For the other cookie, spread the face of it down the middle, not quite to the edge, with a thick layer of frosting.
  • Push the second cookie up against the completely frosted one, to “glue” them together.
  • Then attach the jumbo malted milk ball to both of the cookies, sticking it into the chocolate frosting.
  • Use the candy corn to make the feathers around the malted milk ball, pushing them into the frosting.
  • Now for the head and face of the turkey, use another piece of candy corn on it side with chocolate frosting on the “back” as glue, and attach it to the top front of the malted milk ball.
  • Finally you’re ready to put on the candy eyes, using white or chocolate frosting as “glue.”
  • Now leaving the turkey on it’s back, I like to put mine in the refrigerator for awhile to let the frosting firm up and “solidify” so everything holds together nicely.

Notes

The amount of supplies you need of course will vary with how many turkey cookies you want to make.
You absolutely don’t have to use brand-names for any of the ingredients.
Regular malted milk balls will be too small, you’ll need to find the jumbo ones that are an inch in diameter. I found mine in the candy aisle at Walmart. If you have trouble finding these, I’ve also used mini peanut butter cups.
***With jumbo size malted milk balls, be careful around small children, because they can be a choking hazard.***
I also like to use a white frosting to “glue” on the eyes, since it shows up less than the brown chocolate if any sticks out.
I found my candy eyes in the cake decorating section at Walmart, but I have also found them at the grocery store in the baking aisle.