Decorated Turkey Face Cookies
Thanksgiving is coming fast and do you know what that means? It’s turkey time! The cookie kind, at least.
I’ve never had a lot of luck with full body turkey cookies, so I’m always on the lookout for new interpretations. This year my handy dandy ice cream cutter made the transformation from dessert to feathered foul.
To make these cookies you will need:
- Yellow piping and flood icing
- White 20-second icing
- Brown piping and flood icing
- Black 20-second icing
- Red 20-second icing
- Stiff-ish dark brown piping icing
Begin by outlining and flooding the beak with yellow icing.
Let the beak dry for a bit, add an eye, then wait few minutes before adding the second. This will create dimension.
Let the eyes dry for a bit, then outline and fill the head.
When the beak has dried enough for piping, add nostrils. Let dry completely or overnight.
Finish up by adding a few final details.
- Pipe hair/feathers with a #16 tip
- Add eyebrows with a #2 tip
- Use black 20-second icing for pupils {use white icing for a highlight if desired}
- Use red icing for the gobbler {I might’ve made up that word, but you get the idea}
I mixed my funny little fellows with feathers and turkey track cookies that I made with this stencil from Artfully Designed {technically they’re dinosaur tracks, but I saw turkeys}.
I hope this platter makes an appearance at your Thanksgiving feast.
For more turkey cookie ideas, check out these links:
OMG!!! These are so cute! I’m in love! The ideas you come up with amaze me.
Love ’em! Super easy, really cute, and made with a cutter I already have! The perfect cookie formula, in my opinion 🙂 Thanks for sharing Callye!
Adorable! I love these! Thanks for sharing!
Only you could think of making a turkey face with an ice cream cutter! You amaze me everyday!!
These are so SUPER-ADORABLE!!!! Gobble-Gobble!
These have got to be the cutest turkeys I’ve ever seen!!! Just too adorable!!! You are just wonderfully creative!
Wow!! That platter is adorable and genius! Love the dino/turkey tracks stencil idea! These turkey faces are too cute to “gobble” up. 😛
Super cute! How far in advance can these be made and kept fresh? I would love to make these my Turkey Day Cookie Tray!
I don’t know how you do it Callye, but you never seem to run out of great ideas. These are so cute.
Hello,
I just had to say thank you for this site! I took Wilton cake decorating bake in 1993, but haven’t learned anything new. I have a cookie exchange coming up in December and wanted to do something different. So I went in search of how to decorate sugar cookies with royal icing and came across your site. I learned everything I needed to know and turned out my first batch tonight. Considering my decorating skills were a tad rusty, the cookies turned out great! I will be an old pro by next month. So looking forward to more of your tips and recipes. I love the 20 second icing by the way, save a lot of time.
They are gorgeous! I love how they look slightly sceptical 🙂
Love these cookies!! Thanks for the tutorial. How do you know how much icing in each color to make for how many cookies? I always seem to have so many covered container all over the place for my unused icing. As you are decorating your cookies, where do you let them dry? I end up taking up every table in the house to lay them all on. There must be a better system.
Your cookies are just amazing! Thanks for the inspiration!
I LOVE these cookies!!! Callye, thank you for coming up with such a simple, cute design that doesn’t have any feathers involved 🙂
Love Love Love these! super cute and a freaking awesome idea
How cool are these!!! The ice cream cone shape is so perfect for your turkey!
Super cool!
These are so freaking cute! I am making turkeys and footballs for The Egg Bowl (Ole Miss vs Miss State, on Thanksgiving) and I may have to make these hilarious turkeys….I know there’ll be plenty of brown liquor warming everyone up, they may get a good chuckle from these fellas!
Oh, the answer to the dilemma of cookies for 75 guests at an office luncheon! AWESOME – Thanks so much for sharing your creativity. Whooho! Too Cute!
So cute!!!
Oh girl, these are the cutest!
Turkeys from an ice cream cutter?!? I love it! The turkey tracks are fabulous too:) Thanks so much for the link to my cookies, Callye! You’re simply the best! XO!
These are amazing!! Love them! Can you tell us what the feather cutter is?
It’s actually a gifted cutter from Australia http://www.koolcookiecutters.com.au/index.php?act=viewProd&productId=387 I think a chili, a smooshed football, the three leaf gumpaste cutter among others would work well. I suggest a chili.
These are too cute Callye. I love your creativity!! Thanks for sharing! ????
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What cute little guys!
I loved these so much I had to make them! You are a cookie genius!
I’ll never look at my big ice cream cone cookie cutter the same again and that’s a good thing. These are adorable perfection!
Your talent amazes me friend! These are just darling!
Thank you so much for the Awesome tips and tricks. I love your work. I can only hope to be as talented as you one day. Can’t wait to bring these turkey cookies to my mom’s on Thanksgiving. Happy holidays!
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I enjoy yr creations always. Full of ideas withh cutters. Tks… i love it
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