Easy Cookie Desserts for Thanksgiving

Here is a few more fun desserts that the kids will love to make as much as love to eat! Keep them busy while you are cooking with these easy recipes!

Turkey Cookies from Pillsbury

INGREDIENTS

• 1 roll (16.5 oz) Pillsbury® refrigerated sugar cookies
• 1 container (16 oz) chocolate creamy frosting
• Candy corn
• Orange decorating icing
• Black decorating gel
• Miniature candy-coated chocolate baking bits

DIRECTIONS

• 1Heat oven to 350°F. Bake cookies as directed on roll. Cool completely, about 20 minutes.
• 2Spoon chocolate frosting into resealable food-storage plastic bag; seal bag. Cut small hole in bottom corner of bag. On each cookie, pipe frosting on outer edge of half of cookie. Arrange candy corn over frosting for feathers.
• 3Pipe orange icing onto each cookie to resemble turkey face and feet. Use orange icing to attach baking bits to turkey face for eyes. Pipe black gel on baking bits for centers of eyes.

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A Flock of Turkeys from Taste of Home

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INGREDIENTS

• 48 sugar cookies (3 inches)
• 1 package (12 ounces) chocolate and marshmallow cookies
• 1 can (16 ounces) chocolate frosting
• 1 cup vanilla frosting
• Yellow and red paste food coloring

DIRECTIONS

• Using a serrated knife, cut 1/2 in. from one side of 24 sugar cookies. Using a sharp knife, cut marshmallow cookies in half vertically. Spread chocolate frosting over the bottom of each marshmallow cookie half; align cut edges of a marshmallow cookie and a sugar cookie, and press together to form each turkey body and feathers.
• Spread chocolate frosting over the cut edges of each turkey; position and attach near the back edge of a whole sugar cookie.
• Cut a small hole in the corner of a pastry or plastic bag. Insert a #12 round pastry tip; fill bag with 3/4 cup chocolate frosting. Pipe a neck and head on each turkey.
• Tint 1/2 cup vanilla frosting yellow and 1/2 cup red. With a #3 round pastry tip and yellow frosting, add eyes, beaks and legs. With #3 round tip and red frosting, pipe snood and tail feathers. Store in the refrigerator. Yield: 2 dozen.

  Editor’s Note: This recipe was tested with Nabisco Pinwheels.

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Shortbread Turkey Cookies

INGREDIENTS

• 40 fudge-striped cookies
• 1/4 cup chocolate frosting
• 2 packages (5 ounces each) chocolate-covered cherries
• 20 pieces candy corn

DIRECTIONS

• Place 20 cookies on a flat surface, solid chocolate side down. With frosting attach a chocolate-covered cherry to the top of each base cookie. Position another cookie perpendicular to each base cookie; attach with frosting.
• With a dab of frosting, attach one piece of candy corn to the front of each cherry for the head. Let stand until set.

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