Happy Thanksgiving!!!
I hope that all of you are having a wonderful Thanksgiving. I am especially thankful for all of you today - my faithful blog followers who take the time to stop by my blog on a regular basis. It makes me smile when I log in and see how many of you are reading my humble little food blog. I love that you try my recipes and even send me your comments about them. You are my inspiration to continue taking a ridiculous amount of pictures every day and to spend a crazy number of hours labeling and uploading them to my computer. I am so grateful that I have you to share my recipes and pictures and stories with. You are truly a blessing to me.
These are probably not the kind of turkeys that you expected to see on today's blog but I couldn't resist the temptation to share them with you. The recipe isn't new - it's my favorite sugar cookie frosted with my favorite royal icing recipe. I made these for a party for Courtney's class last week.
This idea came from www.sweetsugarbelle.com. Her sugar cookie turkeys came out much more professional looking so I won't even pretend that mine were even close to the quality of hers but I had a great time making them. I think I need a little more practice.
I took some step by step pictures along the way so that you can make your own platter of turkey cookies for your Thanksgiving table.
I have a turkey cookie cutter but that seemed too easy. For these turkeys, I used an ice cream cone, a large leaf and a biscuit cutter.
I started with the ice cream cone. I used yellow royal icing to outline a beak on the bottom of the cone.
I filled in (or flooded) the outline with royal icing that I thinned with water.
Next I used white icing to outline and flood one eye. I let it dry for a few minutes and then added the other.
I outlined the face in a light brown colored royal icing.
I flooded that in with the same color icing.
Then I added two little nostrils to the beak. In retrospect, I think I should have added these last.
I added black to the eyes with a thin, black royal icing and a paintbrush.
I added a feather to the top of his head with a darker brown icing while I waiting for the eyeball to dry.
Next, I made eyebrows - my favorite part. I put a drop of dark brown above each eye and drug a toothpick through it to make it arch.
I went back and added white pupils to the eyes.
And to finish him off, I added a red gobbler with red icing.
To round out my Thanksgiving platter, I also made some turkey track cookies...
and some brown and orange feathers.
Now this is what I call a Thanksgiving platter.
These are probably not the kind of turkeys that you expected to see on today's blog but I couldn't resist the temptation to share them with you. The recipe isn't new - it's my favorite sugar cookie frosted with my favorite royal icing recipe. I made these for a party for Courtney's class last week.
This idea came from www.sweetsugarbelle.com. Her sugar cookie turkeys came out much more professional looking so I won't even pretend that mine were even close to the quality of hers but I had a great time making them. I think I need a little more practice.
I have a turkey cookie cutter but that seemed too easy. For these turkeys, I used an ice cream cone, a large leaf and a biscuit cutter.
I started with the ice cream cone. I used yellow royal icing to outline a beak on the bottom of the cone.
I filled in (or flooded) the outline with royal icing that I thinned with water.
Next I used white icing to outline and flood one eye. I let it dry for a few minutes and then added the other.
I outlined the face in a light brown colored royal icing.
I flooded that in with the same color icing.
Then I added two little nostrils to the beak. In retrospect, I think I should have added these last.
I added black to the eyes with a thin, black royal icing and a paintbrush.
I added a feather to the top of his head with a darker brown icing while I waiting for the eyeball to dry.
Next, I made eyebrows - my favorite part. I put a drop of dark brown above each eye and drug a toothpick through it to make it arch.
I went back and added white pupils to the eyes.
And to finish him off, I added a red gobbler with red icing.
and some brown and orange feathers.
Now this is what I call a Thanksgiving platter.
Happy Thankgiving friends. Love you all.
Ciao!
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