Oreo Turkeys

With Thanksgiving only a couple days away, I thought I would try making Oreo Turkeys.  These would make awesome Thanksgiving place holders - if your family is into that sort of thing...mine?  We are lucky if we can find a seat at a table.  Last year, I ate while standing in the kitchen - all the chairs AND couches were taken and I wanted to eat while it was still hot :)









Supplies:
Double Stuff Oreo Cookies
Whoppers
Candy Corn
Peanut Butter Cups - Miniatures
Chocolate Frosting*
Yellow Frosting*
Red Frosting*
Black Sprinkles/Nonpariels

*I used the pre-filled tubes of frosting for the yellow and red, since I had it on hand.  However, if you buy these at the store, i recommend also getting the specialized "tips" for the tubes - I didn't have any and had to improvise :)

To Start:

Slather a dallop of frosting in the crack of an oreo about an inch long and stuff 5 candy corns into the frosting being careful not to shove them in too far or the oreo cookies could crack...that would be bad and you'd be forced to eat the cookie!

Next put another dallop of frosting on the opposite end of the cookie and secure it to the base...it helps to lean them up against the wall (or a ziploc bag box) to hold them in place while they dry.

 While those are hardening, unwrap your peanut butter cups.  Take a sharp knive (I liked using a serrated knife) and saw a sliver off one edge.  Cut from the bottom.  If you break the peanut butter cup, don't worry...it's still edible.  Just unwrap another one, and try not to break it!

Add another dallop of frosting to the cut edge of the Peanut Butter cup..attach this to the bottom oreo cookie.

Next, we need to give the turkey a head!  Smear another dallop of frosting to a whopper and attach frosting side to crevice between PB cup and cookie.

Cut off white part of candy corn and add a tiny bit of frosting.  i used the yellow, but chocolate would work here, too...

Attach to whopper...

Add two dots of yellow frosting and a non-pariel or sliver of a chocolate sprinkle (or as i grew up calling them:  sprinkles)

Now your Oreo Turkey should be ready to flip over!

Using yellow frosting and a piping tip, draw lines for legs and feet.  Use the red frosting (all i had was red gel...) and add a waddle or whatever the "gobble gobble" is called!  and you are finished!!

If you happen to drop the turkeys before they are completely dry, you will smash your frosting like I did to the one on the far left.  Fail.

But that's ok, because the kids don't care :)  Stick them on a plate (with the messed up face in the back) and everyone will say "Awwww..." You can always blame the messed up face on the car ride to dinner :)
 

Have fun!!