Turkey Treats as featured on http://www.rachaelray.com/heirloom.php?heirloom_id=16
Laeh McHenry Turkey Treats
Turkey Treats
I made these at a friend's home for a fundraiser over 25 years ago. They sold fast and I even took orders that I made at home. My boys were 6, 4 and 2 years old at the time and they loved helping me make them to sell, to have for us and to give as gifts.
The next year as I prepared the boys for the significance of the coming of Thanksgiving (also my anniversary!) David, Stephen and Adam all began to talk about how excited they were that the Turkey Treats would be at each guest place setting as we had done the year before, and how they could hardly wait to shop for the ingredients and help make the little turkeys for teachers, friends and to mark each plate as we did the year before...AND – M-M-M! – TO EAT THEM!!
I really had NO intention of making them again! But, with their persistent enthusiasm, I made them again.
Every year after that, they would bring up the Turkeys before I would even decide if I was going to make them! Of course, because they talk about them, I have since made them yearly; they are now a family TRADITIONAL treat.
This year, my middle son is hosting us for Thanksgiving. We (our other two sons, my hubby and I) are traveling to visit and have Thanksgiving Thursday (our anniversary), Chanukah Friday a week early, and HIS ENGAGEMENT PARTY Saturday evening during our four day visit. The first words my son mentioned when we were sharing the menu weeks ago and reviewing the weekend event agenda for our visit was, "Great Mom, remember to make extra TURKEYS for the party!" He was talking about the engagement party!
He said, "The hostess will love to put them out for all the guests (family members and friends of the bride-to-be that we have yet to meet). Then he said, "...and of course, Mom, make lots for all our dinners together!!"
Turkey Treats
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Ingredients
* 1/2 cup powdered cugar
* 4 tablespoons milk
* Yellow and red food coloring
* 12 chocolate-covered cherries
* 24 Ritz crackers
* 36 candy corns
* 1/4 cup chocolate chips
Preparation
Look at the photo as a guide. This recipe makes 12 turkeys.
Mix the powdered sugar with enough milk until you have a paste. Add a drop of yellow and then red food coloring to make mixture close to the cracker color.
Spread frosting mix on two crackers. Wait a minute until frosting begins to set.
Place two candy corn on one cracker with small pointy ends facing in and touching. These will be the "feet." Lay a chocolate cherry slightly behind corn feet on its side with the flat side facing the back. Place remaining frosted cracker against chocolate cherry and press to hold.
Meanwhile, melt chocolate chips in the microwave and dip one corn in chocolate to act as the "glue." Attach a corn to the top of chocolate-covered cherry and against the vertical cracker as the "head."
Let harden and enjoy!
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