Blessings Mix

Blessing Mix (pictures from Sally)

• Bugles: shaped like cornucopia or Horn of Plenty...a symbol of our nation's abundance
• Pretzels: arms folded in thanks and prayer
• Candy Corn reminds us that during the first winter, the pilgrims were only allowed 5 kernels of corn a day because food was so scarce
• orange slices or dried fruit: remind us that Thanksgivin is the celebration of the harvest
• peanuts or seeds--the potential of the bounteous harvest for the next season
• m & m's: memories of those who came before us to lead us into a blessed future
• hershey's kiss: the love of family and friends that sweetens our lives

Pilgrim Hats

From the Family Fun magazine

RECIPE INGREDIENTS:
24 chocolate-striped shortbread cookies
12-ounce package of chocolate chips
24 marshmallows
tube of yellow decorators' frosting

1. Set the chocolate-striped cookies stripes down on a wax-paper-covered tray, spacing them well apart.

2. Melt the chocolate chips in a microwave or double boiler.

3. One at a time, stick a wooden toothpick into a marshmallow, dip the marshmallow into the melted chocolate, and promptly center it atop a cookie.

4. Using a second toothpick to lightly hold down the marshmallow, carefully pull out the first toothpick.

5. Chill the hats until the chocolate sets, then pipe a yellow decorators' frosting buckle on the front of each hat.

Turkey Cookies

requires (for one turkey):

2 oreo double stuff cookies
1 malted milk balls (like a whopper)
4-6 candy corn

Directions:

Twist 1 oreo cookie apart... try to keep all the "cream" on one side of the cookie. Lay this cookie half (the one with the cream) chocolate side down, this will be the base.

Take the 2nd oreo & place the whole oreo on its side (so it sticks straight up into the air) on the "cream" base.

In front of the oreo on its side, place a malted-milk ball for the turkeys head.
place candy corn, points down, in between the oreo cookie that is standing on it's side. Use a white tip of a candy corn for a beak & dab oreo cookie "cream" dots, using a toothpick, on the malt ball for eyes. from here

Gobble-in Good Cupcakes

RECIPE INGREDIENTS:

24 frosted cupcakes
24 Nutter Butter cookies
2-3 tablespoons of white frosting or decorator's gel
Mini chocolate chips
Fruit leather, various flavors and colors
toothpicks

1. To make each turkey, press the lower portion of a Nutter Butter cookie into a frosted cupcake for the bird's head.
2. Use tiny dabs of frosting to stick on mini-chocolate chip eyes and a red fruit leather wattle.
3. For each turkey's tail, use a butter knife to cut out a dozen feather shapes (about 3 inches long and 1 inch wide) from fruit leather.
4. Lay 6 of the feather shapes on a flat surface and place a wooden toothpick lengthwise atop each so that one end of the toothpick extends about an inch below the feather. Layer another fruit leather feather layer atop each of the 6 shapes, sandwiching the toothpicks between them.
5. Press the 2 layers together to make them stick, then fringe the edges of the feather with a butter knife. Now your child can stick the colored feathers into the cupcake behind the cookie head.