Gobble Gobble! Serve up a batch of these homemade turkey sugar cookies and watch the kids go crazy over them! Light and flakey sugar cookies decorated with candies to make them look like Thanksgiving turkeys. These are a perfect treat for kids this Thanksgiving season. Whip up a batch for your next playdate, school party, after-school snack and Thanksgiving feast! An easy Thanksgiving cookie recipe.

Turkey Sugar Cookies
Homemade Sugar Cookies for The Turkey Cookie Base
How To Make These Easy Turkey Sugar Cookies

Ingredients For Turkey Sugar Cookies
- 1/2 cup shortening
- 1/2 cup butter, softened
- 1 3/4 cup sugar
- 3 egg yolks
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon cream of tartar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 3/4 cup all-purpose flour
Decorating Ingredients For Turkey Sugar Cookies
- Candy corn
- Miniature Reese’s cups
- Red, orange and yellow frosting
- Small candy eyes
- Miniature M&M’s
Directions For Turkey Sugar Cookies

Turkey Sugar Cookies for Kids | Perfect for Thanksgiving Day!
Ingredients
- Ingredients For Turkey Sugar Cookies
- 1/2 cup shortening
- 1/2 cup butter, softened
- 1 3/4 cup sugar
- 3 egg yolks
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon cream of tartar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 3/4 cup all-purpose flour
- Decorating Ingredients For Turkey Sugar Cookies
- Candy corn
- Miniature Reese’s cups
- Red, orange and yellow frosting
- Small candy eyes
- Miniature M&M’s
Instructions
1. Preheat your oven to 325° and line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
2. In a large mixing bowl, beat the butter and shortening.
3. Mix In the sugar.
4. Then mix in the half the flour, cream of tartar and baking soda.
5. Mix in the egg yolks, vanilla, and the remaining flour.
6. Roll the dough into balls and place onto the parchment paper lined baking sheet.
7. Bake for 12-15 minutes.
8. Leave as is or use a large circle cookie cutter to cut out the center of the cookie for a perfect circle.
9. Add a cup or two of a different color of frosting to each bag and cut a small end off the bag or use a small flower decorating tip at the end of each bag.
10. Open the Reese’s, Apply a dab of frosting to the top of a Reese’s and gently place in towards the bottom of a cookie.
11. Use your orange frosting bag to draw two upside form V’s on the bottom of the cookie. Underneath the Reese’s for turkey feet and to stick on the eyes and beak of the turkey on the Reese’s.
12. Now you can either decorate the “feathers” using your frosting bags to draw small circle dots in lines to look like feathers or using frosting to stick on pieces of candy corn.
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Nutrition Information:
Yield: 24 Serving Size: 1Amount Per Serving: Calories: 244Total Fat: 11gSaturated Fat: 5gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 5gCholesterol: 47mgSodium: 114mgCarbohydrates: 32gFiber: 1gSugar: 23gProtein: 5g
Two Ways To Decorate These Frosted Turkey Cookies
As you read there are two ways to decorate these cookies. With either frosting or candy corn! We like to change it up and do a variety of each, but feel free to make whatever you like! Also, be on the lookout some stores carry other colored candy corns, so you can make your turkey cookies even more colorful!