Sunday, November 16, 2008

Edible Turkeys! To Make With The Whole Family!

Cookie Turkeys

Ingredients:
40 fudge-striped cookies
1/4 cup chocolate frosting
2 packages (5 ounces each) chocolate-covered cherries
20 pieces candy corn
Directions:
Place 20 cookies on a flat surface, solid chocolate side down. With frosting attach a chocolate-covered cherry to the top of each base cookie. Position another cookie perpendicular to each base cookie; attach with frosting.
With a dab of frosting, attach one piece of candy corn to the front of each cherry for the head. Let stand until set. 20 cookies

Pilgrim Hat Cookies

Ingredients:
1 cup vanilla frosting
7 drops yellow food coloring
32 miniature peanut butter cups
1 package (11-1/2 ounces) fudge-striped cookies
32 pieces orange mini Chiclets gum
Directions:
In a small shallow bowl, combine frosting and food coloring. Remove paper liners from peanut butter cups.
Holding the bottom of a peanut butter cup, dip top of cup in yellow frosting. Position over center hole of a cookie, forming the hatband and crown. Add a buckle of Chiclets gum. Repeat with remaining cups and cookies..32 cookies

Turkey Cupcakes:

1-box devil's food cake mix
water, vegetable oil and eggs called for on cake mix box
2-containers (1lb each)milk chocolate frosting
1-tube(4.25 oz)white decorating icing
1-tube (0.68) oz) brown decorating gel
candy corn
chocolate candy sprinkles
Heat oven to 350%
make and cool cake as directed on box for 24 cupcakes
Frost with the frosting. Put the remainng frosting in corner of resealable freezer plastic bag. Snip off small corner of the bag..
To decorate each cupcake, pipe 1-inch mound of frosting on 1 side of cupcake to look like head of the turkey. Make the eyes with the white decorating icing and brown decorating gel; add candy corn for beak..To make feathers, pipe frosting on opposite side to hold candy corn; place candy corn upright on frosting to look like feathers.Sprinkle chocolate candy sprinkles near head and at base of feathers..If desired ad candy corn at base of cupcake for feet. Store loosely covered..24 cupcakes


5 comments:

Debbies Doodle said...

AWWWWW... I love those ideas.. And all on post.. I will be making one of those for Thanksgiving.
Have a wonderful night,
Deb

Jacque. said...

Oh. My. Gosh. Sue! Those are so fun!!! Thank you for sharing...are those all your creations? You rock! Do you mind if I share them (linking back to your blog, of course) on my blog?

Country*Road*Primitives said...

LOL!! Oh the girls and I loved looking at those adorable treats Sue! Thank you for sharing... xox

Willow Lake Stitches said...

Hi. .

LOVE YOUR BLOG. . . and thanks for all these recipies ! They all look so good, can't wait to try them out !

Beth

Rooster Inn Primitives said...

Sue love those cookies. I'll have to make one for thanksgiving.

Great ideas

Hugs pam