Turkey Sugar Cookies for Kids | Perfect for Thanksgiving Day!

Name: Turkey Sugar Cookies for Kids | Perfect for Thanksgiving Day!
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 8 min
Total time: 18 min
Yield: 24
Cuisine: American
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

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

Holidays always mean a lot of baking in our home. We create everything from cookies to cakes and all things in between. I love baking up fun holiday cookies like these turkey cookies. They are simple to make and the kids will love to roll up their sleeves and help decorate them! Kids and adults will both smile ear to ear once they take their first bite of these tasty sweet cookies. If you are looking for an easy turkey cookie recipe, this is it.

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Homemade Sugar Cookies for The Turkey Cookie Base

Want to know the secret to the most perfect sugar cookie? Cream of tartar is a must. When you combine cream of tartar with the baking soda in this recipe it really helps offer a defined flavor aspect to your cookies. You have that light, refreshing, and soft sugar cookie you are hoping for once you are done. I have made many sugar cookies over the years, and this recipe is a tried and true favorite!

How To Make These Easy Turkey Sugar Cookies

The first step to making these cookies is creating your sugar cookies. If you want a really good sugar cookie, I highly recommend using this recipe. Now, if you want to take a quicker route, feel free to buy pre-made dough to use. You won’t get the exact same flavors as a homemade cookie, but it can save you some time.

Next, you start to assemble your design. Use some of your frosting and dab where you want it on the cookie and then place the candies on top so it gets held in place. These are truly so easy to make and are a perfect Thanksgiving cookie for kids and even adults to enjoy.

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

Directions For Turkey Sugar Cookies

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.

Turkey Sugar Cookies for Kids | Perfect for Thanksgiving Day!

Yield: 24 cookies

Prep Time: 10 minutes

Cook Time: 8 minutes

Total Time: 18 minutes

Turkey sugar cookies are a fun and easy Thanksgiving Dessert recipe to make for serving a crowd.

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: 1
Amount 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!

September 7, 2019