thanksgiving turkey cookies

Whip up the easiest and most adorable Sugar Cookie Turkeys for a little family fun time and a decorative sweet treat for the holiday.

Thanksgiving Turkey Cookies

roll (16.5 oz) refrigerated Pillsbury™ Sugar Cookie Dough

chocolate creamy frosting (from 16 oz container)

Candy corn

Orange decorating icing

M&M's® Minis™ chocolate candy

Black decorating gel

Be sure your cookies are completely thawed (if frozen) before decorating. Cold cookies can make it more difficult for the candies to stick to the frosting.
If your candies aren’t sticking to the cookies, all you need is a little more frosting or icing “glue”.
Feathers: See the image for a guideline for how much chocolate frosting to squeeze onto the cookies for the candy corn feathers. You’ll want a thick band so the back of each piece of candy is almost covered with frosting when pressed onto the cookie.
Eyes: If your eyes aren’t sticking, simply squeeze a larger dot of the orange frosting onto the cookies and reapply the candies.

What if my Decorations Aren’t Sticking?

Sugar cookies are sweet as is, and adding candies for decors makes them even sweeter. But if you like your cookies super sweet (and who could blame you!), you can frost the entire top of the cookies first. This will not only make them a bit sweeter, but less precise for piping the frosting for adding the turkey decorations. You can use any ready-to-spread frosting you like (tint white frosting with brown gel or paste food color, to make the frosting tan or brown) or make your own icing, with powdered sugar and a few drops of water.

How Can I Make These Sweeter?

Bake cookies as directed on roll or package. Cool completely, about 15 minutes. 

Spoon chocolate frosting into 1-quart freezer storage bag; seal bag. Cut off tiny bottom corner of bag. 

On each cookie, pipe frosting on outer edge of half of cookie. Arrange candy corn over frosting for feathers.

Use orange icing to attach candies to turkey face for eyes.

Pipe orange icing onto each cookie to resemble beak and feet. 

Pipe black gel on candies for centers of eyes.

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