Oreo Turkeys

I only made these one year, but they are adorable and yummy too. I might have the kids make them again this year as a little project to keep them busy since they have a 5 day holiday again this year.

Oreo Turkeys



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

Directions
Place one Oreo cookie as the base. Put one teaspoon of chocolate frosting on top.

Place one small peanut butter cup on it's 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.

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.

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.

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.

Take a small amount of the white frosting in a separate dish. Mix in red food coloring.

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.



As you can see from my images, I didn't follow the directions completely. I used Golden Oreos instead of regular chocolate Double Stuff Oreos and used mini chocolate chips instead of malted milk balls for the eyes. With all the new flavors of Oreos you can get very creative with these cookies - you can also buy the candy corn mix and mix up the chocolate and regular candy corns to represent the feathers. These cookies are very filling so if you're having a load of desserts already for your Thanksgiving meal, perhaps pick up some cellophane, wrap them up and hand them out as favors at the end of the evening.


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