Thursday, November 8, 2007

gobble gobble

These snacks don't involve maize, but they would make Squanto proud. Right after he taught the pilgrims to do that whole fish-fertilizer business, he taught them how to glue cookies and candy together with frosting to make these adorable turkey snacks.

The internet is teeming with "recipes" for making these giblet-free turkey treats. The fundamental break between the Oreo and the Nutter Butter sects. I appreciate what the Oreo is doing, but come on, a Nutter Butter and a turkey are virtually indistinguishable. But this is an unbiased news outlet, so the Snack Maniac will get back to the facts.

To make your own poultry pastry snack, you take a cookie, a bunch of candy (Whoppers, Reese's cups, Hershey's Kisses,) and a bunch of icing to glue them together. This piece of candy creates the torso(?) thorax(?) for your turkey. Next you create the plummage with candy corn, fruit roll ups or some other colorful, wax-based snack. I came across some recipes that involved raisins , but I am not even going to talk about those, because we all know that Squanto hated raisins, and so should you.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

These are very "cute" snacks, I'm sure the kids love them. But the Nutter Butters look like return of the living dead turkeys rising out of the ground. The Oreos are better, cause they're standing on "snow," but imagine if they used the ones with brown filling?

Anonymous said...

These are adorable but it makes me sad to know that only Martha can make icing that is both pretty and this functional. My turkeys would probably fall apart or look drunk. Where can we find these "recipes"? Minus the raisin one, please.

Anonymous said...

did you actually make these as i agree with nihole that this would be a task best suited for ms. stewart

Anonymous said...

snacks with eyeballs on them are too gross to eat. thus the oreo turkeys win. i meant to post this for the eyeball cupcake a couple posts ago by the way.