oreo cookie turkeys

It's still November, so I figure I can sneak in a turkey. You can come back and read this next year. :)

My sweet mom brought this fun Oreo Cookie Turkeys recipe for the kids to do on Thanksgiving. She is good about finding fun food crafts on the Internet for them. 

We ran out of time to do it, what with the feasting and whatnot, so she left us with the ingredients, and Claire and I finally made some this afternoon.  I did one sample, and Claire did the rest herself.

I kind of gagged thinking about actually eating them because I am not fond of most candy or very sweet things (I bet you're surprised to hear that, but it's true),  but Claire and Bob each ate one and said they were perfect.  

You could also just stick your face down into the sugar bowl and chew for awhile and get the same taste, I imagine.

But the making-these-turkeys part was great. They're pretty messy, with the icing, but if you're not weird about getting your hands dirty, you will enjoy yourself.  If you are weird about getting messy, you could probably wear gloves or something, but then you could also just go sit in a chair and read a book about people making these, if you're going to be that way about it.

Claire and I found it difficult to put dabs of chocolate frosting (for pupils) onto the dabs of white frosting (the eyeballs), and it was hard to make the eyeballs round, so we made a few with marshmallow eyes. (We cut a mini-marshmallow into eight pieces, smooshed one small piece into a small ball for each eye, and dabbed each with a chocolate frosting pupil) and those were funny, bug-eyed turkeys. (The one in the middle has the frosting eyes, which you see are hard to do.)

If you could find those little candy google-eyes, those would look pretty cool.

The wattles are just random blobs of red frosting. They look like wattles because of the context. They are attached to the chin of a turkey, so that's what they must be.

And then Claire wanted to make one with whole mini marshmallows for eyes, and he turned out to be our super-bug-eyed favorite.

Here is the recipe. I should mention that you should barely push the candy corn into the Oreo, or the Oreo will crack.  I don't like candy much, but I like Oreos, and eating the broken ones is one of the perks of making these guys. :)

Oreo Cookie Turkeys

24 Oreo Double Stuff cookies
12 miniature peanut butter cups
12 malted milk balls (Whoppers)
1 cup candy corn
4 ounces chocolate frosting
4 ounces white frosting
red food coloring

Directions
1. Place one Oreo cookie as the base. Put one teaspoon of chocolate frosting on top.
2. Place one small peanut butter cup on its side so that the top and bottom are perpendicular to the base and stuck in the frosting. Place a teaspoon of chocolate frosting on the top (widest part) of the p-butter cup.
3. For the second cookie, stick some candy corn into the Oreo 'stuff' along one edge for the feathers, pointy side down. They should fan out around the edge. If you have trouble doing this, you can help them stick with some white frosting.
4. Place this second Oreo cookie (the tail) on it's edge and sticking to a dab of brown frosting on the back of the peanut butter cup.
5. Place a dab of chocolate frosting on top of the peanut butter up (for the head). Place a malted milk ball on top for the head.
6. Take a small amount of the white frosting in a separate dish. Mix in red food coloring.
7. Use a toothpick with the white and red colors to place eyes, and wattle. You can pinch off the small pointy top of a candy corn and dip it in brown frosting for the beak.
8. Your turkey is complete! Makes 12.