In search of the perfect turkey cookie...

Who knew there were so many variations? All I was really looking for was the cookie I made as a little girl. Instead, I find a regular turkey cookie beauty pageant. Vote on your fav, we'll crown the winner.

Turkeys on Ritz Crackers. Hmm. It could work.


This little turkey babe uses of all things a Goldfish cracker (the rainbow variety) for it's waddle. Clever.


Pretty self explanatory, a Whopper Head Turkey. And Oreo's. One half for the turkey stand, the other half to eat.


This one is hard to beat, Reese's Turkey. Love her. So cute.
You'll need: 7 Candy Corn, 2 Double Stuffed Oreo Cookies; 1 Whopper; 1 Reese's Peanut Butter Cup; Black piping gel; White icing; yellow and red food coloring. First: Put your Peanut Butter cups in the fridge to cool, makes it easier to handle. Squeeze some of the white icing into a bowl. This will be your orange. Mix red and yellow food coloring with the icing to create your desired orange. Then put that into a plastic bag and set it aside for later. Assembly: First create the tail using 1 Oreo cookie and 6 candy corns. Gently, with one candy corn pull apart just one side of the Oreo. Put a good amount of icing in between the two sides. This will help the candy corn stay put. Place 6 Candy Corn (white side down) in between the cookie. See picture. Then, take your white icing and squeeze a generous amount onto the top back of an Oreo cookie. Take the other Oreo and put the bottom into the icing to have it stand up. If it doesn't stand, add more icing! Once you have it stand put it up against something so it doesn't fall until the icing is dry. (Use like a thick book). Remove your Peanut Butter Cup from the fridge. Take your knife and cut off the very bottom so you have a flat surface. Put icing on the bottom of it the bigger flat. Bump it up against the bottom and back of your Oreo cookies. See picture. Next take your Whopper and squeeze more icing on it on one side. Place the whopper on top of the Peanut Butter Cup to make your head. Find a piece of Candy Corn that has a nice big white end. Using your sharp knife cut the color off leaving you with the white end. Place some icing on it and stick it on your whopper as the beak to your Oreo Turkey. Hold for a moment. Take your icing and place two white dots as eyes. Get your tube of black piping gel and place a black dot on each eye to make them come alive. Grab your bag of already created orange. Cut a very small hold in the corner of the baggie. Now, pipe feet.


Runner up. Talk about innovation. Love the marshmallow (Nabisco pinwheel) cookies. To make, you'll need: 48 sugar cookies (3 inches) ; 1 package (12 ounces, Walmart carries these) chocolate and marshmallow cookies; Chocolate frosting; Vanilla Frosting; Yellow and red paste food coloring. To assemble: Using a serrated knife, cut 1/2 inch from one side of 24 sugar cookies. Using a sharp knife, cut marshmallow cookies in half vertically. Spread chocolate frosting over the bottom of each marshmallow cookie half; align cut edges of a marshmallow cookie and a sugar cookie, and press together to form each turkey body and feathers. Spread chocolate frosting over the cut edges of each turkey; position and attach near the back edge of a whole sugar cookie. Cut a small hole in the corner of a pastry or plastic baggie. Add eyes, beak, and legs. Then pipe snood and tail feathers. Store in the fridge. Makes 2 dozen.


Chocolate Covered Cherry Turkey
(Miss Congeniality, for sure).
Ingredients: 40 fudge striped cookies; 1/4 cup chocolate frosting; 2 packages (5 ounces each) chocolate covered cherries; 20 pieces candy corn.
Directions:
Place 20 cookies on a flat surface, solid chocolate side down. With frosting attach a chocolate covered cherry to the top of each bas cookie. Position another cookie perpendicular to each base cookie; attach with frosting. With a dab of frosting, attach one piece of candy corn to the front of each cherry for the head. Let stand until set. Makes 20.


From Pillsbury. Ingredients: 1 roll (16.5 oz) of refrigerated sugar cookie dough (or make your own); Chocolate frosting; Candy Corn, Orange decorator icing; Black decorating gel; Miniature candy coated chocolate baking bits (or mini m & m's).
Directions: Heat oven to 350. Bake cookies. Cool completely (about 20 min). Spoon chocolate frosting into ziploc baggie; cut small hole in bottom corner of bag (or can use a parchment triangle for this part if like). On each cookie, pipe frosting on outer edge of half of cookie. Arrange candy corn over frosting for feathers. Pipe orange icing onto each cookie to resemble turkey face and feet. Use orange icing to attach mini m&M's to turkey face for eyes. Pipe black gel on m&m's for centers of eyes.

The one below calls for: Fudge Striped Cookies, Chocolate bonbons (cheapo kind, found at the Christmas candy aisle at Walmart) and Semi-sweet chocolate, along with Candy Corns. Here's the how: Melt some of the semi-sweet chocolate in the microwave on low setting to use as glue. Cut 1/4 of the cookie off to make the tail. Coat the flat part of the bonbon with melted chocolate to glue to the center of the cookie (covering the hole). Cover one side of the candy corn with melted chocolate and press on the bonbon to make the face. Use a toothpick and melted chocolate to make two eyes. Use two unmelted pieces of semi-sweet chocolate to make the feet. Place on plate or wax paper and refrigerate until firm.


You can assemble cookie parts either with frosting or melted chocolate. This one uses a Brach's chocolate star for the base, a Kraft carmel square, a striped fudged cookie and one candy corn. I call her Carmel Star Turkey.