Turkey Cookies
November: Thanksgiving
Guests are guaranteed to “gobble gobble” up turkey cookies on Thanksgiving! These too-cute cookies are combined with candy to create the famous fowl. And they are photogenic, festive and a favorite for fall functions. It has been our tradition now to take these treats to Thanksgiving gatherings where the hosts are happy to have an alternate dessert to pies at their buffet table. The main parts of the original turkey cookie include Oreos, candy corn and chocolate peanut butter cups held together with frosting. We modified ours with round Nutter Butters, caramel candy corn and marzipan balls secured with peanut butter. Make both versions when you gather together with family and friends for Thanksgiving. They will be grateful for your generosity in sharing these turkey cookies!
Recipe
(Adapted from Coopet Photography)
For each Oreo turkey cookie
- 2 Oreo cookies (Double Stuff recommended)
- 1 Reese’s mini peanut butter cup, refrigerated
- 1 Hershey’s Whopper malted milk ball
- 6 candy corn
- 1 mini chocolate chip
- white frosting
- chocolate frosting
- black gel tube icing
- orange tube icing
Directions
Carefully pull apart one of the Oreo cookies. Gently press the candy corn onto the “double stuff” to make a fan-tail shape. Spread white frosting on the other half of the Oreo cookie. Press together. Refrigerate to set.
Unwrap the chilled Reese’s mini peanut butter cup. Slice a small section off the side for the body of the turkey cookie. Use chocolate frosting to secure the wide side of the Reese’s to the Oreo turkey tail and the sliced flat bottom to the other Oreo cookie base. Put a small amount of chocolate frosting on a Whopper to secure the head of the turkey.
Carefully dab the flat end of a mini chocolate chip with frosting and position it on the Whopper for the turkey beak. Using a small round tip, pipe the eyeballs with white frosting, pressing down lightly with your fingertip on the white points. Dab black gel icing on top of the white eyeballs. Finish the feet details with orange tube icing.
For each Nutter Butter turkey cookie
- 2 round Nutter Butter cookies
- 1 potato-shaped marzipan
- Reese’s Whopper peanut butter-flavored malted milk ball
- 6 caramel candy corn
- 1 mini chocolate chip
- peanut butter, chilled
- white frosting
- chocolate frosting
- black gel tube icing
- orange tube icing
Directions
Carefully pull apart one of the round Nutter Butter cookies. Gently press the caramel candy corn onto the peanut butter filling to make a fan-tail shape. Spread peanut butter on the other half of the Nutter Butter cookie. Press together. Refrigerate to set.
Flatten with your fingers the bottom of a potato-shaped marzipan. Use peanut butter to secure a Whopper on the marzipan for the head of the turkey. Generously slather on peanut butter on the bottom of the Nutter Butter turkey tail and place on other Nutter Butter cookie base. Secure with more peanut butter and add the marzipan-Whopper body.
Carefully dab the flat end of a mini chocolate chip with frosting and position it on the Whopper for the turkey beak. Using a small round tip, pipe the eyeballs with white frosting, pressing down lightly with your fingertip on the white points. Dab black gel icing on top of the white eyeballs. Finish the feet details with orange tube icing.
Notes
- The date of Thanksgiving varies annually. In the United States, it is celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November. In Canada, it is observed the second Monday of October.
- Thanks to Lisa L. for sending us our first batch of potato-shaped marzipan from Germany. We also found them at World Market here in America.
- The round Nutter Butter cookies and peanut butter-flavored malted milk balls are available at Walgreens.
- Use red tube icing to make the turkey wattle (optional).
- Experiment with different colors and flavors of candy corn for the turkey tail.
- Thanks to Islander’s brother, Kahuna, for creating the turkey cookies video tutorial above. It is our first YouTube post!
November 28, 2010 at 2:49 am
These cookies are too cute!!
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These are such a sweet idea just love them!
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They look too good to eat! Almost that is LOL!!!
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I can’t wait to make these for my little boys!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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great idea for my grandaughter, she is 2 years old, I know she will love it!!!!!
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