Thanksgiving Turkey Cookies

Side by side the small Turkey sort of looses it's "OOMPH" next to the large Turkey Cookie, but let me assure you - by itself the small Turkey Cookie ROCKS!

There’s no cooking involved in making Turkey Cookies – the most difficult part of making them is the shopping! The main body of the turkey is Nabisco Pinwheels, a cookie topped with marshmallow covered in chocolate with a hole in the middle. The base can be any small round chocolate cookie, it can be any generic chocolate cookie, or something like Keebler Fudge covered Cookie or Fudge covered Oreos. You can even bake your own chocolate cookie for the base. To make the big turkey cookie you’re going to need another larger plain chocolate cookie at least an inch in diameter larger than the Pinwheel. Check your grocery store’s bakery department, you may have to bake your own. The head/beak and feet (and feathers for the Large Turkey Cookie) are standard Candy Corn, the hard part is finding it after Halloween.If you have time for mail order between Halloween and Thanksgiving then Mail Order Candy Corn is probably your freshest and most convenient choice.Check your local Grocery, Drug & Specialty stores etc. If you have a "Sweet Factory" store in town is a sure bet and the candy is fresh but it'll be your most expensive option.

1 Pkg. Nabisco Pinwheels (12 in a pack)

1 dz. Small Chocolate cookies

36 Perfect pieces of Candy Corn

1 tub Chocolate Cake Frosting

For the large Turkey Cookie – You’ll need:

12 Large Chocolate Cookies

Additional Candy Corn

 Using a butter knife, fill the hole in the Pinwheel with chocolate frosting. Use frosting to cover any spots on the Pinwheel that may have become damaged. 

Place a gob of frosting on the side of the Pinwheel in between the raised part of two swirls, that will give the cookie a slight bit of stability. Place the Pinwheel, vertically, frosting gob down, on the far edge of a small chocolate cookie. 

 Take 2 pieces of candy corn and push the white pointy side first into the frosting gob between the Pinwheel and the base cookie. If you have any candy corn that's missing the white tip, this is the time and place to use them. The candy corn 'feet' also add stability to the Pinwheel from leaning forward. Next place a small gob of frosting at the top of the Pinwheel. Place the 'head/beak' piece of candy corn in the top gob of frosting, white tip facing out, with the corn sitting up on it's side.

To make the Large Turkey cookie

Use a serrated knife to flatten one side of a large chocolate cookie and a small chocolate cookie to give some stability. When assembling, the flat spot on the large cookie should rest flat on the counter and the flat spot on the small cookie should butt up against the large cookie. 

Frost the outer edge of the large cookie, then frost the back side of the Pinwheel. Center the Pinwheel on the large cookie leaving the height of the small cookie between the bottom of the pinwheel and the flatspot on the large cookie. Place the candy corn all along the outer edge of the large cookie. Place a gob of frosting at the base of the Pinwheel and set the Large cookie, candy corn Pinwheel assembly on the small base cookie. The flat spot of the large cookie should rest on the counter and the flat spot of tyhe small cookie should press horizontally against the face of the large cookie  Finish by shoving the two 'feet' candy corn in place and a small gob of frosting at the top and placing the 'head/beak' candy corn in place.