Turkey Feather Twists

How lame am I to finally get around to posting my Thanksgiving treat in January.  I was going to save it until next November, but then I got worried that I would forget or lose the pictures.  So next Thanksgiving, if you need something creative and fun, search my Thanksgiving treats!

TURKEY FEATHER TWISTS

 Aren't they cute, there are so many different ways to present them.

Here's what I did...

Ingredients:

Refrigerated or frozen breadstick dough (or your favorite breadstick recipe), enough for 12 breadsticks

2 Tbsp butter, melted

1/4 cup sugar

1 tsp cinnamon

Glaze:

1 1/2 cups powdered sugar

2 Tbsp butter, softened

2 ½ Tbsp milk

¼ tsp vanilla

Food coloring

Colored sprinkles (optional)

Directions:

1.       Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

2.        Prepare breadsticks according to package directions, or if using your own recipe make breadstick dough and shape into 12 long bread sticks, but don’t bake yet. 

NOTE:  I used 12 portions of frozen roll dough.  I let the portions thaw for 2-3 hours and then rolled into uniform size breadsticks.

3.        Pour melted butter into a pie tin or a shallow baking dish.  Mix sugar and cinnamon in a separate pie tin or baking dish.  Dip each breadstick first into the butter, making sure to coat evenly, and then into the cinnamon sugar mixture.

4.       Twist each breadstick from both ends, until you have twisted them to your satisfaction.  Lay breadsticks on a greased cookie sheet.

5.       Bake for 15 minutes.

6.       When the breadsticks have cooled prepare glaze mixture.  Pour powdered sugar, butter, milk, and vanilla into a mixing bowl and mix until well blended.

7.       Pour glaze into small bowls, one for each color of feather desired.  Add drops of food coloring to tint glaze and stir until well blended.  Evenly coat each Feather Twist with tinted glaze and add colored sprinkles if desired.

Turkey Kisses

This was my last week of Thanksgiving-themed preschool lessons, so of course we had to have a Thanksgiving feast!  Each preschooler brought a food to share.  We had olives, popcorn, cheese cubes, banana muffins, and cookies.

To celebrate the letter of the day, "K" I came up with these little gems,

"Turkey Kisses"

I bought some creme filled vanilla cookies, Hershey's kisses, and candy corns.  Then using all the left over frosting that I had from my Halloween bake-off, I attached them thusly.

When I made them again later, I gave them a little red waddle with the frosting to hang off of their kiss face and it looked even cuter.

 Pilgrim boys enjoying the feast

 And my two pilgrim girls

Corn A'Plenty

It is my turn to teach Buddy's preschool class this month and today we were in charge of the letter "I".  Hmmm... what on earth could we possibly make or do that ties "I" in with Thanksgiving?

INDIAN CORN!

 I knew that those corn on the cob holders that we got for our wedding 10 years ago would some day come in handy.  I think that this may truly be the first itme they were used.

The day before buddy helped me measure all the ingredients to make the snacks.  We used the generic brand of Trix cereal and picked out all the yellow, red, and orange ones and threw in just a few purple and blue ones for a little color variation.

 They're a hit with the 3-year old crowd!

 But even the older kids think they're pretty cool.

 And while we're SNAFTING (snack crafting... that's right I just made up a new word, feel free to use it... just send a trademark payment of $50 post marked to me)... let's throw in a craft.  Gather up these supplies:  multi-colored pony beads (I like the see-through kind), yellow card stock, left over corn stalks, and some raffia.  You will also need some glue.

 Cut a corn cob shape out of the yellow cardstock, leaving a long stem.  Spread glue all over the corn cob.

 Let the kids place beads all over the surface of the corn cob.

 If you are too poor or too lazy to go get pony beads, just use your leftover cereal from the SNAFT.  Punch a hole in the stem of your corn cob and tie a piece of raffia.  Leave enough room that the finished indian corn can be hung from a door knob.

Glue on some leftover cornstock around the stem and hang your beautiful decoration!

And now, the recipe for the Indian corn on the cobbers.

INDIAN CORN SNACKS

4 tablespoons of butter

4 cups of mini marshmallows

5 cups of colored ball shaped cereal (I used a generic trix and sorted out the yellow, red, and orange)

Fruit Leather (we so happened to find green fruit roll-ups, thank you Shrek!)

Popsicle sticks

In a large pot, melt butter and mini marshmallows over low heat (about 5 minutes).

Remove the mixture from the stove and use a wooden spoon to stir in cereal. Allow the mixture to cool for about 10 minutes.

Using buttered hands, shape each treat by pressing 1/3 cup of the mixture around a Popsicle stick. Add fruit leather husks to the bottom of the ear, slightly moistening them to help them stick if needed. Makes 15 treats.

*This recipe was inspired by this post on Disney's Family Fun website, however they made theirs with puffed corn cereal (Kix or Corn Pops) and mixed the cereal with diced dried fruit.  I didn't think my kids would eat the dried fruits that they used, so I made mine this way.  But theirs look totally cute also.  They also had a really cool indian corn cookie that I just noticed today.  You can check it out here!