No Turkeys Were Harmed in the Making of This Cookie!

Your kids will be extra thankful for these cookies.
Your kids will be extra thankful for these cookies.

My mom has had a fall tradition for as long as I can remember: making turkey cookies with all the kids at our Thanksgiving gatherings. I loved it when I was little, and now I love seeing my kids' eyes light up when they see the candy, cookies and frosting laid-out on the table. The turkey cookies change from year to year, but our love of the tradition never does!

Ingredients

Nutter Butter® cookies
Candy corn
Chocolate or vanilla frosting
Candy eyes
Orange Starburst® candies
Heart-shaped sprinkles
Maple leaf-shaped sprinkles

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Directions

1. Begin by carefully peeling the top part of the cookie away from the bottom, trying to keep peanut butter filling on bottom cookie. Spread chocolate or vanilla frosting over peanut butter filling and carefully place candy corn into frosting around the top half of the cookie. Then gently press the top cookie back on, over the candy corn.

2. Cut beak shape from starburst candies and secure to cookie using a dab of frosting. Secure candy eyes and leaf sprinkle feet in the same manor. Press heart sprinkle onto starburst candy beak to create the turkey's waddle. Admire your cute turkey, and then devour him!

- By Stephanie Dulgarian

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