Things You'll Need:
- 2 1/4 cups flour
- 3/4 cup sugar
- 3/4 cup brown sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1 tsp salt
- 1 cup butter (2 sticks)
- 1 bag chocolate chips
- 1 bag Hershey's kisses
- 1 bag Swedish Fish
- 1 bag almond slivers
- 1 small container cake icing, enough to make dots for eyes, any color
- 1 container dipping chocolate, or baking chocolate
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Step 1
Bake the chocolate chip cookies. (Hint: this step can be skipped by buying pre-made chocolate chip cookie dough, or even chocolate chip cookies for that matter. No one will know.....but you!)
To bake:
pre-heat the oven to 350 degrees. Make sure you haven't left the pan from last night's chicken in there first.
mix the flour, baking soda, and salt in one bowl.
In the other, combine the sugars, vanilla, and butter (twenty seconds in the microwave makes it perfect to mix in but not too liquidy in most cases).
Add the eggs as you see fit, depending on how strong your arms are, till the mixture is pretty smooth and doesn't look like broken egg fetus and sugar anymore.
Add the flour mixture bit by bit so that you don't end up wearing most of it as it tries to escape from the bowl. This also depends on how strong your arms are.
When that looks like good old fashioned batter, add the chocolate chips. I personally like to add the whole bag because my boyfriend and I are freaks about chocolate, but since the whole sucker is going to be covered in chocolate eventually, add as much or as little as you want. I've been known to put a bag and a half.
Distribute the dough into like balls on the tray, evening spaced. Do not grease the tray. If I really have to tell you how to arrange the little balls of dough, you shouldn't be baking cookies in the first place. Go get mom.
If you're okay after this step, bake the tray for about 10 minutes, and let cool till they come off the tray with ease. -
Step 2
As the cookies cool, get the other supplies ready. Melt the dipping chocolate in it's microwavable container, or put the baking chocolate in a microwave safe container and melt till it is chocolate paint, basically.
Cut some Swedish Fish in half. Unwrap some kisses. Open the bag of almonds. -
Step 3
Put down a sheet of wax paper or a large tray on which you don't mind getting chocolate.
Paint the top of each cookie completely.
Put a kiss in the center for the beak.
Put half a Swedish fish directly under the kiss to create the red wobbly thing on the turkey.
Put the almond flakes fanned around the top of the cookie to create the tail feathers.
As a finishing touch, add eyes on the bottom of the kiss, and you have perfectly cute, entirely edible Turkey Cookie.
Comments
tundranut said
on 2/16/2009 I'd give you a recommend not just for the cookies, but also for your writing style...except that I already did that for your other article! Again, enjoyed tremendously, so thanks.
vikki9 said
on 8/14/2008 These cookies are a great add-on to the traditional pumpkin pie dessert. Many thanks! 5 gobbles!
showpup said
on 11/16/2007 Thanks! This is perfect for our upcoming Thanksgiving family feast! I was looking for something unique. 5 stars given!