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

• 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

Instructions

1. 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.

2. Cut a cheese triangle beak and red pepper snood. Attach both, along with raisin eyes, to the head with sections of toothpick.

3. 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.

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

• Cupcake
• Chocolate frosting
• 3 oval shortbread cookies (we used Keebler Sandies Right Bites Shortbread)
• 6 to 10 candy corn pieces

• White icing
• Black decorators' gel
• Red fruit leather (we used strawberry Fruit by the Foot)
  

Instructions

1. Frost the cupcake, then press in a cookie head and 2 cookie wings.

2. Press in a row or two of candy corn tail feathers.

3. 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.

4. For a beak, cut the white tip from a piece of candy corn and press it in place.

5. 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.

Turkey Cookie Treats
From: Betty Crocker

Make a cookie that shouts "kids' table treats," and guess what? No rolling is needed.

Prep Time: 1 hour 15 min
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.