By: Shelly Shapero
Monday is Canadian Thanksgiving and that means I am “Talkin’ Turkey”. Nice thing about these turkeys is that all the fixins are included and there is no fear that they will be dried out because I used my chocolate brownie cookie recipe.
Materials Needed for Decorating:
Candy caramel corn – I used the Thanksgiving colours that you can sometimes find but if not the Halloween one will look just as cute
Small heart sprinkles
Candy eyes
Tweezers
Melted chocolate in a squeeze bottle if you want royal icing will also work
Royal icing – orange and white — as always I stress how much I like Ateco meringue powder because it takes like marshmallows
Round cookie cutter – any size will work the one I used was about 3″ around
Instructions and Tips:
Roll out the dough and bake according to the recipe.
I actually sorta placed everything around the cookie to see how it would look before I stuck everything on – just as practice.
Melt the chocolate in a double boiler and pour into squeeze bottle OR melt right in the bottle.
Squeeze a line of melted chocolate (or royal icing) and place caramel corns across the top to form the tail feathers. Let dry (I actually put in the fridge for a few minutes).
Add the eyes with white royal icing.
Draw an orange triangle for the beak and place the heart sprinkle for the wattle – that thing that hangs down under the beak – who knew it was called a wattle? My sister-in-law that is who knew because I did not know and called her for vocabulary help (THANKS Jill).
Draw the legs.
If you take time to make these let me know how they turned out.
Happy Thanksgiving!