Kids in the Kitchen

Turkey Cookies

Get your whisk, and mixing bowl and join WNPL librarians online as they demonstrate something fun for kids to do in the kitchen. (Some supervision or help is required!)

Video will become available the day of the program.

Turkey Cookies

Ingredients:

You can use a cookie mix or make your own sugar cookie dough.  I’ve included both!

Sugar Cookie Mix

1/2 cup butter

1 egg

Or

Sugar Cookie Recipe

2/3 cup unsalted butter                            

3/4 cup sugar                                          

1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract                      

1 egg                                                      

4 teaspoons milk                                      

2 cups flour                                             

1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder  

Decorations: 

Vanilla frosting

Orange food coloring

Mini Peanut Butter Cups

Candy Corn pieces

Candy eyes            

1.  Preheat oven to 350 degrees.  Beat the butter and sugar together in bowl until creamy 

     and well combined.  (An electric mixer is helpful for mixing this recipe)

2.  Beat in the eggs and vanilla extract until fluffy.  Mix in the milk.

3.  Whisk together the dry ingredients in a separate bowl.

4.  Add the dry ingredients to the creamed mixture.  Blend together until all of the dry 

     ingredients are incorporated.

5.  Form the dough into golf-sized balls.  Place them on a parchment-lined baking sheet.

     Bake for 8-10 minutes or until just slightly browned.

6.  Remove them from the oven and flatten the tops with a drinking glass.  Make sure to

     do this while the cookies are hot.  You need a flat surface in order to adhere the 

     decorations properly.  Cool cookies.

Decorations:

1.  Stir the food coloring into the frosting to make your desired orange color. (Red and 

     Yellow make orange)  Place frosting in a Ziplock bag, seal and snip off the corner

     to create a tiny hole. (Make the snip very small)

2.  Add a dab of frosting to the back of the peanut butter cup.  Place it on the center of 

     the cookie.  Repeat with all of the cookies.

3.  Squeeze a small amount of frosting onto the back of a candy corn.  Adhere it above 

     the peanut butter cup so the white point is touching it. Repeat until you have five 

     corns above the peanut butter cup and it looks like a fan of feathers. Repeat on 

     remaining cookies.

4.  Cut the remaining candy corns apart.  Set aside the orange pieces and cut them into 

     beak shapes.  Adhere the eyes and beak onto the peanut butter cup with more 

     frosting.

5.  Roll the strips of fruit candy to create the waddle. Simply place on the cookie next to 

     the beak; no frosting is necessary.  Add tiny feet underneath the peanut butter cup    

     using your frosting in the Ziplock bag.  Draw two lines under the peanut butter cup    

     adding a V for the feet.   Gobble  Gobble!!

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