Easy Thanksgiving Turkey Cookies

An up close photo of a cute turkey cookie.

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Simple sugar cookies and other easy to find ingredients are combined to create the cutest little Turkey Cookies ever. Add them to your Thanksgiving menu today.

Prep Time30

Cook Time25

Total Time55

Course: Dessert

Cuisine: American

Servings: cookies

Calories: 177kcal

Author: June Albertson-Dick

Ingredients

Cookie

1-17.5 oz. pkg sugar cookie mix
1/2 cup butter {softened}
1 egg

Toppings

24 mini Nutter Butter Cookies
48 edible eyeballs
24 yellow candy coated sunflower seeds
24 red long sprinkles
120 candy corn candies
1 can white frosting {I used vanilla}

Instructions

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.

Cookies

Combine the sugar cookie mix, butter and egg in a medium bowl until you have a soft dough. Use a medium cookie scoop and scoop 12 mounds of dough onto a silicone mat {or parchment} lined baking sheet. Bake for 8-10 minutes or until cookies are cooked through. Remove from oven and cool completely on cookie sheet.

Assembly

Apply frosting to the back of a mini Nutter Butter Cookie and place frosting side down on top of sugar cookie on the bottom half. We want to be sure and leave enough room for the candy corn feathers.
Add to small spots of frosting on the top of the Nutter Butter for the eyes. Place two edible eyeballs on the frosting and press down slightly.
Add another spot of frosting in the middle and below the eyeballs for the beak. Add the candy coated sunflower seed on the frosting.
For the wattle, take a longer red sprinkle. Add a little frosting to the top/side of the sprinkle and attach it to the side of the beak.
Finally, add five candy corn to each cookie. Make a fan shape above the Nutter Butter head being sure to add enough frosting that they will stay in place.
Allow the frosting to set up before stacking the cookies.

Notes

If you don't want to use a sugar cookie mix try my cream cheese sugar cookie recipe.
Make sure all of your ingredients are at room temperature before you start baking. Room-temperature ingredients mix together much easier and produce a more consistent cookie.
When scooping the cookie dough, use a level scoop, so all of your cookies are the same size. This will help them bake evenly.
To get the perfect cookie, make sure not to over-bake them! Every oven is different, so keep a close eye on them. The cookies should be set around the edges but soft in the center.
Use tweezers to add the candy to the sugar cookie. They can be fragile and hard to handle while working with them.
When adding the candy corn, make sure that the pointy end points downwards so they look like real feathers! If you want to get creative, you could use different colored candy corn to make a rainbow of turkey feathers.

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