Three Thanksgiving Treats To Make
Fruit Gobble
From: Family Fun
Whet your family's appetite for the real bird with a fruity tribute, submitted by Michelle Pestillo of Southington, Connecticut. It's easy to assemble -- and delicious to take apart!
- Ingredients
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- Bosc pear (head)
- Melon (body)
- Cheese (beak and tail feathers)
- Red pepper (snood, feet and side feathers)
- Raisins (eyes)
- Grapes (tail feathers)
- Bamboo skewers
- Toothpicks
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Stabilize the melon body by cutting a shallow slice off the rind to form a flat base. Using a section of bamboo skewer, attach a Bosc pear head to the melon, as shown.
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Cut a cheese triangle beak and red pepper snood. Attach both, along with raisin eyes, to the head with sections of toothpick.
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Cut red pepper feet and set them in place. For tail feathers, skewer cheese cubes and red grapes, then insert the skewers as shown. Pin pepper side feathers in place with toothpicks.
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Sweet T.O.M Turkeys
From Family Fun- Their Candy corn plumage and shortbread wings guarantee that these irresistable Treat of the Month Turkeys (T.O.M.s for short) will be gobbles up as soon as they land on the dessert table.
- Ingredients
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- Cupcake
- Chocolate frosting
- 3 oval shortbread cookies (we used Keebler Sandies Right Bites Shortbread)
- 6 to 10 candy corn pieces
- Instructions
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Frost the cupcake, then press in a cookie head and 2 cookie wings.
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Press in a row or two of candy corn tail feathers.
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To make an eye, add a small dot of white icing to the head, then add a dot of black decorators' gel for a pupil.
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For a beak, cut the white tip from a piece of candy corn and press it in place.
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To make the wattle, cut a 1-inch square of fruit leather. Roll it into a tube and stick it in place over the beak.
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From: Betty Crocker
Make a cookie that shouts "kids' table treats," and guess what? No rolling is needed.
Total Time: 1 hour 15 min
Makes: 2 dozen cookies
Ingredients:
1 | pouch (1 lb 1.5 oz) Betty Crocker® sugar cookie mix |
1/2 | cup butter or margarine, softened |
1 | egg |
1 | container (12 oz) Betty Crocker® Whipped chocolate frosting |
Candy corn | |
1 | tube (4.25 oz) Betty Crocker® yellow decorating icing |
Miniature candy-coated semisweet chocolate baking bits | |
1 | tube (0.68 oz) Betty Crocker® black decorating gel |
- Instructions:
1. Heat oven to 375°F. In medium bowl, stir cookie mix, butter and egg until soft dough forms. On ungreased cookie sheets, drop dough by rounded tablespoonfuls 2 inches apart. 2. Bake 11 to 14 minutes or until edges are light golden brown. Cool 1 minute; remove from cookie sheets to cooling racks. Cool completely, about 15 minutes. 3. Frost and decorate 1 cookie at a time. After spreading frosting on cookie, add candy corn for feathers. Pipe yellow icing for beak and feet. Add baking bits for eyes; pipe black gel for center of each eye.
Labels: Celebrations, Meal Time, Recipes, Thanksgiving
2 Comments:
These have got to be the cutest treats I've seen in a long time for Thanksgiving & the grandchildren & I will have fun making them.
Loving the fruit gobble idea. Think I may give a try at it with my boys. Thanks for sharing!
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