Friday, October 28, 2011

Turkey Favors

http://www.favecrafts.com/Thanksgiving/Candy-And-Cookie-Turkeys/ml/1 
Thanks to Barbara Price for sending this cute idea! 
Although I prefer to share only healthy recipes without sugar, this is made only once a year, so here it is for those who would like it!
Materials:
  • Double Stuff Oreos (2 per turkey)
  • Small Reeses' peanut butter  Cups (1)
  • Whoppers (1)
  • Candy Corn
  • White Frosting
  • Black Frosting
Instructions:
  1. First place your peanut butter cups in the fridge. They will cut cleaner cold. Then take an Oreo and carefully separate one of the cookies  from the frosting. Gently press the pointed tips of 6 candy corns around one half of the Oreo. Take some white frosting and cover the frosting and re-attach the cookie.
  2. Now, take the second Oreo and lay it flat on the table. Pick up your Oreo with the candy corn  and put some icing on the bottom of the Oreo opposite from the candy corn and attach the Oreo onto the flat oreo so that it is on the back half. Prop the stuck together Oreos against a book or a wall to hold it up while the icing dries. If it does not stand up well, add some more icing.
  3. Now take a cold peanut butter cup and cut a small section off of it so that it will have a flat side. Place some frosting on the flat section and the top of the peanut butter cup and attach it to the Oreo with the candy corn so that it becomes the body of the turkey.
  4. Take the Whopper and put icing on the back side of it. Attach it so that it is right on top of the peanut butter cup and iced to the Oreo and Whopper. Add two drops of white icing for the eyes and a smaller drop of the black for the pupil.
  5. For the wings, I cut the very tip of a candy corn and glued a wing on both sides of the peanut butter cup. For the feet, you can use the same tip you cut off when making your wings. Let dry for about 20 minutes before handling.