These Thanksgiving Cookie Dough Turkeys are simple, delicious, and SO fun for Thanksgiving! They're perfect for a class party or Thanksgiving dinner, and best of all, the kids can help you make them!
Prep Time 30 minutesminutes
Total Time 30 minutesminutes
Servings 8
Author Cathy Trochelman
Ingredients
1stick unsalted buttersoftened
¾c.packed brown sugar
1tsp.vanilla
1c.flour
½tsp.salt
1Tbsp.milk
40small pretzel sticks
8small pretzels
1c.red candy melts
1c.orange candy melts
1c.yellow candy melts
16candy eyeballs
orange and red chocolate covered sunflower seeds
Instructions
Cream butter and sugar; add vanilla and mix to incorporate.
Add flour and salt and mix thoroughly. (Dough will be crumbly.)
Stir in 1 Tbsp. milk.
Chill dough until firm enough to roll into balls.
Meanwhile, melt candy melts and dip pretzel sticks to coat. Leave 1 cm. at the bottom of each stick. These will be the feathers.
Dip small pretzels in red candy melts for the turkeys' feet.
Roll dough into 8 balls.
Decorate with candy eyeballs, sunflower seeds, and pretzel sticks.
Place each turkey on top of a small red-coated pretzel.