Adorable turkey pretzels. This Thanksgiving Kids Food Craft is perfect for little hands. Chocolate dipped pretzels, cookies, and candy corn make an adorable Thanksgiving treat for kids – gobble, gobble!
Chocolate Covered Turkey Pretzels
I love sharing kids food crafts with you on the Rachael Ray Show last October. This year we have another fun one – a Thanksgiving Turkey Pretzel Candy Corn Stick. It’s a great way to recycle leftover Halloween Candy!
These will be a huge hit at your Friendsgiving Thanskgiving.
Turkey Pretzels Ingredients:
- 12 Pretzel Rods
- 12 Grasshoper Cookies (or other chocolate covered cookies)
- 24 Candy eyes
- 84 Candy Corns
- 12 Orange Reese’s Pieces
- 1/2 cup Chocolate Melting Chips or Bark
- 1/8 cup red Candy Melting Chips
Turkey Pretzels Directions:
- Lay cookies out on wax paper leaving room for pretzel rods to lay on top of each cookie without touching each other.
- Using a spoon drizzle a little chocolate around on cookie to glue candy corn in place.
- Heat Chocolate Chips in tall glass or cup by microwaving for 30 seconds stirring and repeating until melted. Allow to cool for 2-3 minutes.
- Dip pretzel 2/3 way in melted chocolate and roll to coat completely. Shake off excess.
- Lay on wax paper on top of cookie as shown in picture.
- Place candy corn in fan shape on cookie around pretzel rod.
- Place in refrigerator for 10 minutes to set candy mix.
- Using a spoon place a little chocolate to “glue in place eyes and Reese’s Piece on end for beak.
- Place Red Candy Chips in corner of zippered sandwich bag and microwave for 45 seconds. Knead to make sure it is smooth and melted.
- Clip corner of bag and pipe a waddle under the beak of each turkey.
- Immediately place in refrigerator for 10 minutes to set candy mix.
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Description
Adorable turkey pretzels. This Thanksgiving Kids Food Craft is perfect for little hands. Chocolate dipped pretzels, cookies, and candy corn make an adorable Thanksgiving treat for kids – gobble, gobble!
Ingredients
- 12 Pretzel Rods
- 12 Grasshoper Cookies (or other chocolate covered cookies)
- 24 Candy eyes
- 84 Candy Corns
- 12 Orange Reese’s Pieces
- 1/2 cup Chocolate Melting Chips or Bark
- 1/8 cup red Candy Melting Chips
Instructions
- Lay cookies out on wax paper leaving room for pretzel rods to lay on top of each cookie without touching each other.
- Using a spoon drizzle a little chocolate around on cookie to glue candy corn in place.
- Heat Chocolate Chips in tall glass or cup by microwaving for 30 seconds stirring and repeating until melted. Allow to cool for 2-3 minutes.
- Dip pretzel 2/3 way in melted chocolate and roll to coat completely. Shake off excess.
- Lay on wax paper on top of cookie as shown in picture.
- Place candy corn in fan shape on cookie around pretzel rod.
- Place in refrigerator for 10 minutes to set candy mix.
- Using a spoon place a little chocolate to “glue in place eyes and Reese’s Piece on end for beak.
- Place Red Candy Chips in corner of zippered sandwich bag and microwave for 45 seconds. Knead to make sure it is smooth and melted.
- Clip corner of bag and pipe a waddle under the beak of each turkey.
- Immediately place in refrigerator for 10 minutes to set candy mix.
Take a look at these Thanksgiving Food Treats featured on Rachel Ray (seen here!)
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Post originally published 10/25/14.
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Shannon says
Oh my goodness! How cute are these?! Love it! Would be so fun as edible decor on a kids holiday table! Thanks for sharing.
Mitzi says
I am in LOVE with these Turkey Pretzels– my son’s classmates would love them, too– thanks!
Gentle Joy says
These are really cute! :)
Teri@The Freshman Cook says
These are so cute! I love ideas for Thanksgiving! I would love if you would share this at Celebrate It! It’s our blog party where we celebrate the everyday things that we do!
http://thefreshmancook.blogspot.com/2014/10/celebrate-it-blog-party-15.html
Katherine @ Everyday Celebrations says
These are too cute! This will come in handy for my preschoolers this year. Thanks for sharing!
Katherine @ Everyday Celebrations
http://everydaycelebrationsblog.blogspot.com/
Barb @ A Life in Balance says
Congratulations on being featured at Motivation Monday!