Fudge Stripe Turkey Cookies
Adorable turkey cookies that are fun and easy to make.
Equipment
- Microwave safe container
- Ziploc bag
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup miniature semi-sweet chocolate chips
- 8 fudge-striped shortbread cookies
- 8 fudge covered graham crackers
- 8 miniature peanut butter cups
- 1 roll chocolate covered caramels
- 24 pieces candy corn
- 1 tube black decorating gel
Instructions
- Melt chocolate chips in microwave for 30 seconds and then stir to smooth. Continue at 15 second intervals as needed.
- Transfer melted chocolate to a Ziploc bag and snip off one corner of bag.
- Lay a shortbread cookie flat on worksurface with stripes facing vertically.
- Squeeze melted chocolate to pipe a line across the bottom of each cookie. The line will cross over each of the vertical stripes.
- Place long side of graham cracker along the line of melted chocolate. Hold until chocolate begins to set.
- Repeat for remaining cookies and then let them set for 30 minutes.
- If necessary, reheat chocolate in microwave for 10-30 seconds until it's smooth again.
- Pipe about 1/2 teaspoon of melted chocolate along the wider side of 1 peanut butter cup.
- Place peanut butter cup centered over the hole of the shortbread cookie. Repeat with remaining peanut butter cups and cookies.
- Squeeze about 1/2 teaspoon of chocolate on the bottom of caramel and place on top of the peanut butter cup. Repeat with remaining caramels and then let set for 15 minutes.
- Turn cookie so that the graham cracker is flat on the work surface and the shortbread cookie is upright.
- Pipe a small amount of chocolate on one side of a candy corn and place against peanut butter cup for beak. Hold for a minute until chocolate sets and then repeat for remaining cookies.
- Pipe a small amount of chocolate on one side of two more candy corns and place them on either side of peanut butter cup and caramels for legs. Repeat for remaining cookies.
- Using black decorating gel, add eyes on each candy corn beak. Let cookies set for 1 hour.
Notes
- Use melted chocolate for eyes if you don't have black decorating gel.
- You can place chocolate chips in Ziploc to microwave if you prefer. I don't like microwaving plastic so I prefer to melt in a glass container and then transfer to a Ziploc bag, or piping bag.
- You can use regular chocolate chips instead of mini, it will just take longer to melt in the microwave. Start with 1 minute and continue with 30 second intervals.
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