I refuse to be like the stores and skip right over Thanksgiving. Until Thursday, I'll be doing some cool things to celebrate this forgotten holiday.
Turkey Cookies
1 bag of sugar cookie mix, prepared as directed for cookie cut outs
(I do have a recipe for real sugar cookies you'll get later,
but these work great for a project like this with the kids.)
1 tub vanilla frosting
1 tub chocolate frosting
candy corn
M&M's
paper & pen
sandwich bags
food coloring
Use the pen and paper to make a 'mitten' template the size of your child's hand.
Roll cookie dough until 1/2 inch thick. Using a knife, trace 'mitten' shape into dough and place on cookie sheet. Bake according to package directions.
While cookies are baking, place half of the vanilla frosting in a small bowl. With food coloring, tint this half yellow. This is what you will use to decorate the 'feathers'. Divide the remaining frosting in half again, tint one half orange and one half red. Put the red and orange frosting in separate sandwich bags. Snip off a small corner of the bag. This is what you will use to decorate the face.
After cookies cool, frost the 'mitten' part of the cookie with yellow icing and the rest of the cookie with the chocolate icing. Like this...
Make 'feathers' with the candy corn by placing them on the yellow part of the turkey. Like this...
Finish your turkey by giving him eyes (an M&M), a beak (orange frosting or candy corn) and a waddle (red frosting).
Gobble! Gobble!
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