Thanksgiving is one of my favorite holidays. It's so festive, and little pressure is placed upon the holiday. I could go on my soap box and talk about how Black Friday is no longer on Black Friday, but has instead intruded on a holiday where we reflect on the blessings that have been bestowed upon us and are thankful for what we have and the people that surround us. But I won't go take that step onto my soap box, I will, however, talk about about turkeys.
Thanksgiving has long centered around the family table that is topped with a roasted turkey, a side of stuffing, and a slice of pumpkin pie. That's the way it is, and that's the way I like it. Because of this magnificent fact it is so easy to be festive on Thanksgiving. I can put pumpkin in anything, and everyone's cool with that. I can make food to look like turkeys, and that makes everyone more festive. And that is exactly what I did.
I try to do this every year. Last year, I made cupcakes, and I made them into a big turkey shape.
One of my brothers and one of my sisters wanted a pic with the cupcake turkey.
This year I decided to use OREOS as my medium for creating my turkey.
These Oreo turkeys are fairly easy to make. I put each Oreo on a sucker stick (which can be found at Walmart or other craft stores). I used candy corn as the feathers, and M&Ms as the eyes. For the beak, I used frosting that I dyed orange.
Thanksgiving OREO Turkeys:
Ingredients:
Oreos
Sucker sticks
White almond bark or white chocolate
Chocolate chips (semi sweet or you can use almond bark)
Frosting
Frosting dyes (red and orange)
M & Ms
Candy corn
Directions:
- Melt some white almond bark in the microwave in a microwave safe bowl (about 2 squares).
- Gently twist each of the Oreos apart, so that the cream stays on part of the cookie and the other is clean.
- Put melted melted chocolate in a baggie with a small tip clipped at one end. Squeeze a small amount of chocolate onto the cream side of the Oreo.
- Next, place a sucker stick on the small amount of the chocolate that is on the cream side of the Oreo. Add the top back onto the Oreo. Repeat until all of Oreos have been done.
- Next, melt the chocolate chips in a microwave safe bowl in the microwave.
- Dip the pointy end of the candy corn in to the chocolate. Then put in between the two cookie halves of the Oreo. I put 4-5 pieces of candy corn on each Oreo.
- After all of the Oreos have candy corn on them, place in the freezer or fridge so that the chocolate can harden up (In the freezer for about 15-20 minutes).
- For the eyes, you will need more white chocolate or just remelt the leftovers the from previous steps. Using the same bag as before, pipe two small circle dollops on the Oreo (This makes the white of the eye). Then place an M&M on each of the dollops. Repeat for rest of Oreos.
- Next, dye half of the frosting orange, place in a sandwich baggie with tip cut off. Pipe the beaks on the Oreos. (I basically did a squiggle; I started the squiggle bigger at one end and then taper off; refer to picture).
- To make the snood (the red thing that hangs off a turkey's beak), dye the other half of the frosting red. Using a sandwich baggie with the tip cut of, pipe the snood on the larger side of the beak (I made a little line on the larger side of the beak).
- Place in freezer or fridge to allow the chocolate to solidify if it hasn't already.
- Share with the family and friends!
I'm sorry if the directions are thoroughly confusing. It was sometimes hard ot explain what I was doing. If you have any questions please feel free to email me or contact me. Have a Happy & Blessed Thanksgiving!
Happy Thanksgiving,
Andrea
