Turkey Cookies
Turkey cookies are the cutest Thanksgiving dessert in town! Homemade cut out sugar cookies decorated with royal icing to look like Thanksgiving turkeys. A delicious Thanksgiving treat!
First of all, Happy Thanksgiving! I made you some adorable turkey cookies to celebrate the holiday! The turkey cookies are such a fun and festive Thanksgiving dessert, and they're tasty, too!
There's so much to be thankful for. Baking is my addiction and I'm so thrilled that I can share all my creations with you! Sometimes, my readers even send really lovely e-mails and comments. That makes my head swell, just so you know.
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I've been playing with more decorating tools, as you may have been able to notice.
My Bakers Box sent me October's box and I'm finally putting it to use. They sent a flower cookie cutter and fall leaf sugar decorations. There were other fun little things, but these two caught my eye. I knew almost immediately what I was going to do. Sometimes, it's just finding the time.
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How to Make Turkey Cookies
You'll need a few cookie decorating tools to make your turkey cookies:
- flower cookie cutter
- meringue powder
- decorating gel in yellow, orange, red, and brown
- disposable icing bags and round tips
You'll also need to have a batch of sugar cookies. If you don't want to bake sugar cookies from scratch, you can use refrigerated sugar cookie dough.
Turkey Cookies
Ingredients
Royal Icing
- 2 T meringue powder
- 3 T water
- ½ teaspoon corn syrup
- 3 T orange juice
- 1 T vanilla extract
- 3 ½ cups powdered sugar
- gel paste colors yellow, orange, red and brown
Instructions
- Prepare sugar cookies and use this round fluted cookie cutter to cut out the cookies. Bake according to directions. Let cool completely and start on royal icing.
Royal Icing
- In a mixing bowl, add in the meringue and water. Whisk together for 1 minute until the mixture becomes frothy.
- Add in the corn syrup, orange juice and vanilla. Whisk to incorporate.
- Add in the powdered sugar and whisk until it becomes a thick icing. Pull up and pour some of the icing back into the bowl. The perfect flooding icing will take about 14 - 16 seconds to completely smooth out. If it is much quicker, add more powdered sugar. I would start with ¼ cup and go from there. If it's too thick, add another tablespoon of orange juice or water and test again.
- Add ¼ cup of the royal icing to a small bowl. Add in a drop or two of yellow and stir until combined.
- Pour into a disposable piping bag with a small round tip.
- Repeat steps 4 and 5 with the colors orange, red and brown.
- Using a ruler and food color markers, draw the lines on each indentation for the feathers.
- Start with the yellow color, fill in every seventh feather with the same color. Let it crust for 10 minutes to prevent colors from bleeding together.
- Repeat with the orange, red, and brown.
- On a piece of wx paper, pipe the turkey heads. Start with a nice big circle and then pipe a skinny neck. Finish the neck with a small dot.
- Set aside and let dry for about 2 hours.
- Pipe a dot of yellow icing. Using a toothpick, stretch out the dot a little and make a point for the beak. Let it dry for about 15 minutes.
- Add a little red from the top center of the beak to the side of the beak.
- Add the white dots with the left over royal icing. Let the cookies and turkey heads dry overnight.
- Using leftover royal icing, add a dot in the center of the turkey head. Place the center of the dried cookie.
- Add a dot of royal icing to the fall leaf sugar decorations and place at the base of the neck.
- Let dry.
Nutrition
(Nutrition facts are an estimate and not guaranteed to be accurate. Please see a registered dietitian for special diet advice.)
I hope you enjoy your family and delicious food this Thanksgiving! I'll be missing my parents and mother/daughter time this year, but will still have great company with my husband and son.
Let me know what amazing food you're making or made!
