This is a quickie recipe I posted on Technorati for a really cute Thanksgiving dessert kids can help with. I welcome and encourage you to try it next year! We couldn't find candy corn this year, so ended up using Red Vines cut in eighths and split in half lengthwise as the feathers and Mike and Ike's for the nose, along with some extra frosting as "glue" to hold it all together. Lots of fun!
I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving feast with friends and family. Thank you sincerely for your readership and comments.
(Article first published as Festive Thanksgiving Oreo "Turkey" Desserts on Technorati.)
Looking for a fun and easy way to keep your children occupied and entertained while helping you prepare Thanksgiving dinner? Look no further than these adorable Oreo Turkeys, easy to assemble for kids from ages 3-103 and sure to inspire "oohs" and "aahs" from all your guests.
Oreo Cookie Turkeys
Ingredients (for 12 turkeys):
- 24 cream-filled chocolate sandwich cookies (Oreos work best)
- 12 Whoppers malted milk balls
- 1 bag chocolate-covered raisins
- 1 bag candy corn
- 1 small tube decorative frosting/icing
1. To make base for your turkey, twist the top off of 12 cookies. Keep the side with the cream filling. You can eat or dispose of the plain side.
2. Prepare the turkey feathers by inserting five or more candy corns in the cream filling of the 12 remaining cookies. The candy corn should make a semi-circle around half of the cookie. Use the skinny part of the candy corn triangle to put in the filling; the yellow and orange parts should show as feathers.
3. Place one turkey feather cookie on top of each base, centered and standing at a 90 degree angle. Push gently into the exposed cream filling of base.4. Push one Whopper onto each base, centered in front of the feather cookie, for the turkey's head.
5. Push one chocolate covered raisin into each side of the head for the turkey's feet.
6. Break the thick end off of 12 candy corns. Stick point into base in front of whopper for turkey's nose.
7. Use frosting to put two small dots on each whopper, for the turkey's eyes.
8. Plate, serve and eat! 
Be creative with your ingredients. Here are a couple more substitutes and additions you can use:
- Add small bite-sized Reese's peanut butter cups where the whopper is to add a turkey body. Connect the Whopper head to the peanut butter cup with a toothpick to give the bird a long neck, and connect the nose with frosting.
- If you can't find candy corn, feel free to use any long, thin candy in it's place for the nose and feathers. Some possibilities may include Mike and Ike's, Good and Plenty or cut up licorice sticks.
Those little Cookie Turkeys are so cute. Although I didn't see my niece for Thanksgiving, this may be a nice little edible craft to do with her on a rainy day :)
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It's a lot of fun! After doing it again Thanksgiving morning, I would recommend buying double stuff oreos and/or using frosting to help secure the feathers.
ReplyDeleteThere wasn't any candy corn at the store this year, so we ended up making do with Red Vines sliced in half length-wise and then into eighths for the feathers and Mike and Ikes for the noses. Still tasty! Let me know if you try it with your niece. :)
These are so adorable, thanks for the idea.
ReplyDeleteYou're very welcome Alma! :)
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