Cookie Turkey Tutorial for Thanksgiving Treat!

Hi all. I thought you might like to know how I put together the little cookie turkeys from last year’s Thanksgiving table. I have been making these little guys for probably 10 years now. I’d bring a tray into work and they’d be gone fairly quickly. One year my boss thought they were so funny he kept it in his drawer until the next Thanksgiving… (I wouldn’t recommend this.)

A friend of a friend made them for a get-together. She showed me how to make them and I was hooked. I thought you’d like to know as well in case you’d like to try something simple to add to your dessert menu or to each place setting, or just for fun! Easy job for little people too!
You’ll need:
1) fudge stripe cookies (this year I found Keebler has an oatmeal version – yum.)
2) caramels
3) candy corn (perfect way to use leftovers from halloween)
4) chocolate kisses
5) honey

Ready for how easy this is?

Step 1: unwrap the kisses and the caramels
Step 2: push a caramel over the top of the chocolate kiss, being careful to not break the tip off the kiss (the plus side is that if it breaks the kiss must be eaten immediately)
Step 3: add a dab of honey to the top of the caramel and push a candy corn into the caramel

Step 4: Add a fairly decent amount of honey to the back of the caramel and lean the cookie against it, pressing from the front of the caramel and the back of the cookie to make good contact. These cookies are pretty fragile so be strategic in where you are pushing. Again, if the cookie breaks you must eat it. 😀Depending on where you are, and what you’ll be doing with these, the honey might not be ‘strong’ enough to keep the cookie attached. If you’ll be bagging these I would suggest using royal or cookie icing to connect them.

Also, the caramels are so pliable that you could even make them into a sphere to resemble more of a bird body.

An assembly line of sorts is how I always go through the batch I put together. Gets them all done in a hurry!Easy, right!? Happy munching! In case you didn’t know, you can also find me on facebook!