Decorated Turkey Face Cookies
Thanksgiving is coming fast and do you know what that means? It’s turkey time! The cookie kind, at least.
I’ve never had a lot of luck with full body turkey cookies, so I’m always on the lookout for new interpretations. This year my handy dandy ice cream cutter made the transformation from dessert to feathered foul.
To make these cookies you will need:
- Yellow piping and flood icing
- White 20-second icing
- Brown piping and flood icing
- Black 20-second icing
- Red 20-second icing
- Stiff-ish dark brown piping icing
Begin by outlining and flooding the beak with yellow icing.
Let the beak dry for a bit, add an eye, then wait few minutes before adding the second. This will create dimension.
Let the eyes dry for a bit, then outline and fill the head.
When the beak has dried enough for piping, add nostrils. Let dry completely or overnight.
Finish up by adding a few final details.
- Pipe hair/feathers with a #16 tip
- Add eyebrows with a #2 tip
- Use black 20-second icing for pupils {use white icing for a highlight if desired}
- Use red icing for the gobbler {I might’ve made up that word, but you get the idea}
I mixed my funny little fellows with feathers and turkey track cookies that I made with this stencil from Artfully Designed {technically they’re dinosaur tracks, but I saw turkeys}.
I hope this platter makes an appearance at your Thanksgiving feast.