15 Different Ways To Make Turkey Cookies The Kids Will Gobble Up

Thanksgiving will be here before we know it and I have rounded up some of my favorite Turkey Cookie Ideas to share with you just in time. I am amazed at how many ways you can make a Turkey Cookie and some of which I had never seen before. So get ready to be inspired with some ideas that would be perfect for your Fall Thanksgiving Party or your Thanksgiving Day dessert table for the kids.

Ok of course us adults will like them too, kids are always just a good excuse to make Cookies and turn them into Turkeys. The other fun part about Turkey Cookies is that if you are able this can be turned into a fun activity for the kids to do. I do this a lot at our holiday parties with the kids. I set up all the goodies with a Sample Cookie or Cupcake and I let them make their own. So keep that in mind as well – the kids love to make them as much as they love to eat them.

So I have gathered 15 different Turkey Cookie Ideas and I will call them the best of the best. They are all easy to make and I have added a link for each of them so you can see the directions too. Just click the purple word links and see how they are made. I wish I can take credit for them all, but I cannot and that is OK because I love nothing more than creative people.  So come on and let me show you all the Yummy Turkeys creations I have found………….
1. Nutter Butter Turkey Cookie Pops – Now this is one I can take credit for since these were my creation. They are simple to make with Chocolate and a Nutter Butter Cookie on a Stick – I think everything tastes better on a stick.

2. Oreo Turkey Cookies – I like these Turkeys, but Oreos are also my favorite cookie of all time. I could skip dinner and just eat these. Just sayin’

3. Handprint Turkey Cookies – These Handprint Turkeys are very cool and I think I really like the Chocolate coating for added sweetness.
4. Candy Corn Turkey Cookies – Simple Sugar Cookies turned Turkey just using a few simple treats – like Candy Corn – YUM

5. Flock of Turkeys Cookies – There are two different styles of Turkeys Cookies in this Flock – some made with Cookies and Marshmallow Pinwheels and the others using Ritz Crackers and Oreos – How cute are they?

6. Fudge Stripe Turkey Cookies – What a delicious combo of Chocolate Covered Cherry Bodies paired up with Fudge Stripe Cookies and a Candy Corn Beak.
7. Handprint Turkey Cookies – What I love about these Handprints is that the print is that of your child and not a cookie cutter. That really gets them into the creating process huh? I think they are super cute.

8. Colored Handprint Turkey Cookies – These guys are all decorated with the colors of a Turkey using a Sweet Cookie Glaze.

9. Marshmallow Pinwheel Turkey Cookies – This is a different take on the Fudge Striped Cookie Turkeys above and I like the way it was done – Super Simple and Cute Cute Cute !!!
10. Nutter Butter Turkey Cookie – This Turkey Cookie is full of so many great treats, Nutter Butter Cookie, Chocolate Wafers, M&Ms, Reese Peanut Butter Cup and Jelly Beans – Wow all of that in one Turkey Cookie – this may be what I have to make this year – lol.

11. Pizzelle Turkey Cookie – I happen to love this one using a Pizzelle Cookie as the Feathers. I think this is so creative  – I love love love it !!!

12. Oreo Turkey Cookies – I love these guys which also use an Oreo Cookie combined with Reese Peanut Butter Cups and Candy Corn. This kids love this one too.
13. Graham Cracker Turkey Cookies – Thsi Turkey Cookie is so different using a Graham Cracker stand and am Orange Gumdrop body. I love all the creativity. So many SWEET Turkeys out there.

14. Pillsbury Turkey Cookies – This cookies is great taking the slice and bake Pillsbury Turkey Cookies and kicking them up a notch with some M&M Feathers – who would have thought.

15. Handprint Turkey Cookie Place Settings – How great would these Turkey Cookies look on your Thanksgiving day Table with all your guests name on them? I really like this idea – don’t you?

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Halloween Ghost Meringue Cookies

 
Ingre­di­ents:

3 lg egg whites ( be very sure that no yolk remains in the whites, the fat will pre­vent the whites from peak­ing correctly)
3/4 cup gran­u­lated sugar
scant 1/4 tea­spoon cream of tar­tar (egg whites ben­e­fit from a small bit of acid to help them whip right)
A pip­ing bag (cake dec­o­rat­ing bag)
bak­ing sheets lined with either parch­ment or sil­pat liners
Wilton Black Sparkle dec­o­rat­ing gel

Direc­tions:

Sep­a­rate the whites from the yolks. Save the yolks in the fridge for another recipe. Let whites rest on counter until room tem­per­a­ture. Place in a very clean, dry bowl of a mixer. Beat at a low speed until whites look frothy & cloudy.

Increase mix­ing speed to medium and add the cream of tartar.

Mix until whites reach soft peak stage. The soft peak stage is reached when the peaks of the whites droop slightly, when the beater is turned off and lifted.

Increase mixer speed to high. Add the sugar at this stage. I added it at a steady stream on the inside edge of the bowl. Beat until firm peaks form. The egg white foam will become smooth, moist and shiny. Stop the beat­ers and then lift them — straight peaks should form.

Now con­tinue beat­ing on high until stiff peaks are formed. Whites will be very stiff and glossy. Make sure they are com­plete to this stage if you want defined peaks at the top of your cookies.

If you need a guide for the size of the meringues, use parch­ment and draw 1 inch cir­cles in pen­cil on one side of the parch­ment. They can be as close as an inch apart as the meringue doesn’t spread as it bakes. Flip the parch­ment over and place on the bak­ing sheet. You should be able to see the pen­cil lines through the parchment.

Pre­heat your oven to 225 degrees Fahrenheit.

I find that for these ghosts, just using the open­ing of the pip­ing bag instead of a dec­o­rat­ing tip worked best.

Scoop the meringue into the pip­ing bag.

Close and pipe cir­cles onto the parch­ment, fill­ing to fit the cir­cles. Pipe out the meringue in the shape of lit­tle ghosts. Pull up at the end to make the peak. The tips should look like choco­late kisses. Just prac­tice to get this shape. The not-perfect ones still taste deli­cious, and the vari­ety gives the ghosts personality!

When all meringue is used or pans are filled, place into the oven for 1 hour and 30 min­utes. Don’t peek! Let set on pans for a few hours after done bak­ing before dec­o­rat­ing. They are a lit­tle frag­ile, espe­cially at the tip, but so yummy!

When cooled, add eyes and a mouth using dec­o­rat­ing gel. Make them dif­fer­ent look­ing to give the ghosts some charm!

Pretty sim­ple huh? How many cook­ies you pro­duce will depend on the shape and size. These ghosts were about 1 1/2 inches across the bot­tom, and about 2 inches tall.

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