| Level: | Easy |
| Total: | 35 min |
| Active: | 20 min |
| Yield: | 6 turkeys |
Ingredients
- 1 cup semisweet chocolate chips
- 30 candy corn candies, plus 6 white tips of candy corn
- 6 chocolate sandwich cookies
- 6 mini peanut butter cups
- 6 malt balls
- 1 cup Red Frosting, recipe follows
- 6 chocolate sandwich cookies with top cookies removed
- 1/2 stick (1/4 cup) unsalted butter, at room temperature
- 1 1/2 cups powdered sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- 2 tablespoons whole milk
- Red food coloring, as needed
Instructions
- Place the chocolate chips in a medium stainless steel or glass bowl. Set the bowl over a saucepan of barely simmering water. Cook, stirring occasionally, until the chocolate has melted, about 4 minutes. Set aside to cool slightly.
- For each turkey, push 5 candy corn candies, tip-side down, into the cream filling of a chocolate sandwich cookie to make the feathers for the turkey. Lay the cookie on a work surface.
- Dip the flat, larger end of a peanut butter cup in the melted chocolate allowing any excess chocolate to drip back into the bowl. Place the peanut butter cup, chocolate-dipped end down, onto the sandwich cookie.
- Dip a malt ball into the melted chocolate allowing any excess chocolate to drip back into the bowl. Place the malt ball above the peanut butter cup to make the head of the turkey.
- Dip the flat end of the white candy corn tip in the chocolate. Place on the malt ball, to make the turkey beak. Refrigerate until the chocolate has set, about 10 minutes.
- Place the Red Frosting in a piping bag. Using scissors, cut a small opening in the end of the piping bag. Pipe a small piece of frosting under the malt ball to make the turkey’s beard.
- Place a cookie (with top half removed) on a platter. Stand the turkey upright into the cream filling. Repeat with the remaining ingredients.
- In a medium bowl, using an electric hand mixer, beat the butter until smooth, about 20 seconds. Add the powdered sugar, vanilla extract and milk. Beat on low speed until combined. Increase the speed to high and beat until the mixture is smooth. Color the frosting by mixing in 1 drop of red food coloring at a time until the desired color is reached.
Reviews
The turkeys are really cute and fun to make. My workaround in place of the double stuff or mega Oreos is using melted white chocolate candy wafers. I melted some of the white chocolate and used it as glue for the candy corn (feathers) and attaching the turkey to the Oreo base. It worked great!
My daughter and I had A blast making this and it was so simple to do loved it
This recipe was definitely fun with my 4-year old grandson. Based on other comments, we did our test run with Double Stuffed Oreos. Many of them split apart from the slight pressure of inserting the candy corn. Final run ready for tomorrow, we used Mega-stuffed. Much better results. Also, used the previously posted idea to cut up Swedish fish rather than make red frosting.
One more point: for our trial run, I bought the mini unwrapped peanut butter cups. They are too small; the miniature, individually wrapped ones are the size shown in the pictures with the recipe. And, malted milk balls from different makers are completely different sizes. Whoppers seem to be right proportionally.
One more point: for our trial run, I bought the mini unwrapped peanut butter cups. They are too small; the miniature, individually wrapped ones are the size shown in the pictures with the recipe. And, malted milk balls from different makers are completely different sizes. Whoppers seem to be right proportionally.
Darling things. I’m not the most crafty person but I tried these on my own and I found them to be so intricate and fragile. I could do these with one child maybe my granddaughter. Used ready made white frosting with red gel food color. And used left over frosting to pile on the Oreo for a stand, otherwise they’d never hold up.
Great dessert and so much fun for Thanksgiving! To make it easier and lessen the ingredients cut up Swedish fish for the beard instead of using your time to make red frosting.
Super good! Even for the turkeys!
This has become a Thanksgiving tradition for my granddaughters, they have to make the turkys! They are even more excited at 10 and 12 years! This is the third year making them!
I loved these the first time I saw them! Every year I was baking cut out sugar cookie turkeys and sending them from LA ( me) to NY ( my grandsons) and I needed something new. I can’t wait to hear what they say when they see these cookie/candy treats. it combines their love for cookies with their love for peanut butter cups. It can’t miss. I just wish I was there with them, maybe next year. THANK YOU Giada!!
Love it
Love it… I’ll adopt this as a my new Thanksgiving family tradition and for my school thanksgiving tradition too, and share with my students .