Happy almost Thanksgiving in this pandemic era. I know this holiday season will be so unlike others and families may or may not be getting together.
To bring a little happiness I made some sugar cookies as "cute" turkeys!
Every year I try making edible turkeys for Turkey day and I try to cute them up as real turkeys are far from cute!
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Start with a no spread cookie dough recipe. I use this one from In Katrina's Kitchen and it works great every time. It's kinda like making stuff with play-doh
I used mostly natural food colorants:
yellow = tumeric
chartreuse = tumeric + matcha
orange = tumeric + drop orange food gel
pink = beet powder
brown = cocoa powder
green = matcha
purple = hibiscus powder
dark green = green spirulina
cream = no color
I was trying to figure out how to make the turkey feathers and decide to roll out balls and/or strips of colors
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OR you can roll out longer feathers and use brown discs for more traditional turkeys
Roll out 2 discs of color (1 slightly larger for the back and a smaller one for the head). Then mix and match colors for tail feathers and smush them down a little.
Once baked add a candy-coated sunflower seed for a beak
Use a black food writer to add eyes and use red candy melt to add the gobbler thing!
Do you think turkeys are cute?
But more importantly, which do you like better??
Happy Thanksgiving & Stay Healthy!!!