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Turkey Rice Krispie Treat Cookies – The Perfect Kid Friendly Dessert

November 17, 2014 by Jennifer Sikora 24 Comments

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A Few years ago, my daughter and I made these adorable Pilgrim Hat Cookies for Thanksgiving. They turned out so perfectly adorable that THIS year, we decided to make a new cookie for Thanksgiving — Turkey Rice Krispie Treat Cookies!

Turkey Rice Krispie Treat Cookies

These cookies were so fun to make! I started out making them on my own, but when my daughter saw what I was doing, she had to get in on the fun.

Here is what you need to make your own —

Turkey Rice Krispie Cookies

  • Rice Krispie Cereal
  • Candy Corn
  • Semi Sweet Chocolate Chips
  • Butter
  • Large Marshmallows
  • Chocolate Kisses
  • Orange Food Coloring
  • Candy Eyes

Start out by making your Marshmallow rice krispie treats. You do this just like you always have — take 4 tablespoons of butter and melt in a large pot. Then add your marshmallows and over medium heat, melt everything together.

Turkey Rice Krispie - melt your marshmallows

Once your marshmallows are melted, add in 5 1/2 cups of rice krispie cereal and then stir to combine. Once you get it all combined, pour it out on a large cookie sheet. I used my new Kitchenaid non stick cookie sheet pan. I love it.

Turky Rice Krispie pour out on pan

Now — take a tablespoon of butter and butter your hands well. This will keep the krispies from sticking to your hands as you flatten it out. Make it go all the way to the pan and smoosh it together really good.

Turkey Rice Krispies Flatten out

Place in the freezer for about 10 minutes and let it cool, and then using a 3″ biscuit cutter, make circle rounds for your Turkey body. Place them on a piece of parchment or waxed paper.

Turkey Rice Krispies cut into rounds

Once you get them cut out, now take your Hershey Kisses and unwrap them all. Place them about mid ways in your Rice Krispie treat, turn upside down with the point end being pushed into your treat.

Turkey Rice Krispie push kisses in

While Kayla was putting the kisses in the cookies, I took some semi sweet chocolate chips and melted them in the microwave. This is used as the glue for your candy corn, eyes, and turkey beard.

Put a few chips in a bowl, and then in 10 second increments, melt chips until they are just starting to melt. Do not keep microwaving or you will burn chocolate and there is NO coming back from that!

Turkey Rice Krispie melt your chocolate

Once you have your chocolate melted, in another small bowl, add some plain rice krispies with a drop or two of orange food coloring for the turkey beard.

Now you are ready to assemble your turkeys!

Dip each candy eye in the chocolate and place on the top of the Hershey Kiss. The candy eyes you can get on Amazon or at Hobby Lobby — whereever you just happen to be shopping at that day!

Turkey Rice Krispie Candy Eye Treats

Once you have your eyes on, add a little chocolate to a turkey beard and place it half on and half off of the chocolate kiss. Once you get done with that, take 5 Candy Corn, dip the back side of the bottom half in chocolate and place in a half moon pattern at the top of your rice krispie treat.  At this time, your turkey should look like this —

Turkey Rice Krispie Face

Making these cookies with my daughter took about an hour from start to finish and we took them to church the next day for our bake sale. Every single one of them sold.

All we did was lightly wrap each one in plastic wrap and then placed them in the refrigerator to let the chocolate harden.

Turkey Rice Krispie bake sale

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Turkey Rice Krispie Treat Cookies - The Perfect Kid Friendly Dessert
Ingredients
  • ! For the krispie treats:
  • 4 tablespoons of butter
  • 10 oz bag marshmallows
  • 5 1/2 cups Rice Krispies Cereal
  • ! For the turkeys:
  • 1/4 cup semi-sweet chocolate morsels melted
  • 12 chocolate wafers or Hershey Kisses
  • candy corn
  • candy eyes
  • orange food coloring
Instructions
  1. In a large saucepan, melt butter over medium heat. Once melted, add marshmallows and stir continuously until melted. Remove from heat and quickly fold in the cereal, until completely coated.
  2. Press lightly onto a baking sheet. Allow to set, about 30 minutes, or just throw in the freezer for 10 minutes.
  3. Using a 3" inch round cookie cutter (or whatever desired size), cut circles into the krispie treat. Eat extra discarded krispies immediately.
  4. Using the melted semi-sweet chocolate, attach about 5 candy corn for feathers, one kiss for the face, and two eyes. For the beard, mix some plain rice krispies with orange food coloring and then attach those using the chocolate.
  5. ENJOY!

 

What is your favorite holiday cookie to make? I would love to hear your versions.

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Comments

  1. Robin (Masshole Mommy) says

    November 18, 2014 at 10:25 am

    Those are SO cute. What a fun treat these would be to serve on Thanksgiving.

    Reply
  2. susan says

    November 18, 2014 at 11:29 am

    This is adorable!!! I love the turkey… this would be a great addition to my holiday meal. I will have to make some of these great treats soon.

    Reply
  3. Lisa Bristol says

    November 18, 2014 at 3:14 pm

    This is such a cute treat to make with the kids. So easy to make.

    Reply
  4. Ann Bacciaglia says

    November 18, 2014 at 3:44 pm

    These are adorable treats. I will have to make some with my friends little ones. I am sure they will love it.

    Reply
  5. Dawn says

    November 18, 2014 at 4:31 pm

    I love Rice Krispie Treats! What a neat little snack for Thanksgiving!

    Reply
  6. Tammi @ My Organized Chaos says

    November 18, 2014 at 6:13 pm

    We love making rice krispie treats, there’s so much that you can do with them. My girls love to decorate them with icing like cupcakes! lol

    Reply
  7. Liz Mays says

    November 18, 2014 at 6:46 pm

    Those are the cutest little turkeys. My nieces and nephews would gobble gobble them up!

    Reply
  8. Shauna says

    November 18, 2014 at 6:50 pm

    ha, ha, ha… I am totally chuckling right now. These are so super-cute and perfect for Thanksgiving. I love rice krispie treats

    Reply
  9. Nolie says

    November 18, 2014 at 7:17 pm

    THose are seriously so cute. My kids would love making them.

    Reply
  10. Ronni says

    November 18, 2014 at 7:37 pm

    I read the title and a completely different image came to mind LOL These look so cute!

    Reply
  11. Stacie says

    November 18, 2014 at 7:37 pm

    These look like they’d be fun to make with the kids!

    Reply
  12. Brett says

    November 18, 2014 at 7:38 pm

    I bet I have everything I need to make these already! So cute!

    Reply
  13. Mama to 5 BLessings says

    November 18, 2014 at 7:43 pm

    These are SO cute! Love Rice Krispie treats you can make so many things with them!

    Reply
  14. kristin says

    November 18, 2014 at 8:05 pm

    Those are very cute. Im sure our girls would enjoy making and eatting them.

    Reply
  15. Tammilee Tips says

    November 18, 2014 at 9:23 pm

    Those are adorable!!! I bet your daughter had a blast making them with you as well. I would grab them at a bake sale glad you sold out!

    Reply
  16. Mistee Dawn says

    November 18, 2014 at 10:17 pm

    Wow. These are so cute. And they look so yummy. I will have to make these with my daughter.

    Reply
  17. Dawn says

    November 18, 2014 at 11:00 pm

    This is great! It’s cute AND delicious. Sounds like a winner to me.

    Reply
  18. Cynthia Wright says

    November 18, 2014 at 11:39 pm

    This is so cute! My girls would love these.

    Reply
  19. Jennifer says

    November 19, 2014 at 1:04 am

    That’s so fun! I’m going to send this to my sister. She’d love to do this with her kids.

    Reply
  20. Amber Louise Edwards says

    November 19, 2014 at 9:22 am

    Looks so cute and very creative! YUMM!! I’ll ask my kids to do these with me 😉

    Reply
  21. ANGELE @shoeboxbegone says

    November 19, 2014 at 9:39 am

    Clearly I need coffee because it took me a few seconds to realize you weren’t putting turkey in rice krispie treats, you were decorating lol. Thanks for sharing we’ll have to try these!

    Reply
  22. Tiffany (Fabulous Mom Blog) says

    November 19, 2014 at 10:21 am

    Those are just too cute. Love that you themed them for Thanksgiving. I love making these treats.

    Reply
  23. Maria says

    November 19, 2014 at 11:06 am

    I can’t wait to try this with my son. It looks so cute!

    Reply
  24. Amy Desrosiers says

    November 19, 2014 at 7:44 pm

    Very cute! I made something very similar earlier in the month for my kids.

    Reply

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