posted by Lisa Snyder on November 3, 2023

Tips on how to make candy little turkey face sugar cookies is on the calendar at the moment. These cookies are tremendous easy and an effective way to embellish with the kiddos. They’re additionally nice for coworkers and academics. Or you may make a batch and far on them by way of Thanksgiving. Anyway, they’re straightforward and oh so cute so let’s get began.

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These are the royal icing colours and consistencies I used for these candy turkey face sugar cookies, however use no matter you might be snug with and no matter makes you cheerful.

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Let’s enhance!

  • Bake your cookies and allow them to cool utterly earlier than you enhance them. I do know these might appear like little turkeys, however sugar cookies are means higher at room temperature with the icing on prime of the cookie and never operating over the perimeters.
  • Whereas they cool you may make your royal icing.
  • Draw the eyes, beak, and gobble wobbly factor (wattle if you need me to be appropriate) with a food-safe marker
Time for the enjoyable half!
  • Now we get to embellish. Start by outlining the components of the face. 
  • Flood the beak and use a toothpick, turkey lacer, or a scribe device to easy out the icing and pop any air bubbles you see.
  • Let the yellow royal icing dry for a short time earlier than you add the airbrush coloration. 

 

  • The beak is the AmeriColor Lemon Yellow, however if you consider a turkey its beak appears to have a bit of orange tint. In case you airbrush it with Outrageously Orange Edible Airbrush Shade it would give it a pleasant turkey look. In case you don’t have an airbrush system don’t stress. Add a bit of vodka or water to some food-gel coloration and thoroughly paint the perimeters. It really works like a allure!
  • Subsequent, flood the wattle and pop these air bubbles. 
  • Let it dry for a bit earlier than you add the Royal Purple Velvet Edible Airbrush Shade
  • You’ll want one thing like a paper towel or a bit of parchment paper to guard the beak from the purple airbrush spray. You possibly can see how easy that is within the video.
Let’s assist this turkey see the world!

  • Flood one eye with the white royal icing.
  • Add a black royal icing switch or you need to use black royal icing for the dot.
  • Let the white icing dry till it kinds a crust so the eyes will look separate as a substitute of like one huge eye. I don’t know, one huge eye would possibly look fairly cool. Do no matter makes you cheerful.  
  • After the royal icing on the attention kinds a crust you may flood the opposite eye and add the black dot or royal icing switch.
  • Add a white dot on every of the eyes.
Virtually executed!

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I forgot so as to add the 2 nostrils within the video and everyone knows these cute little turkeys have to breathe. Simply pipe two little dots on the beak and also you’re all executed.  Thanks for adorning with me! It was a gobbley good time!

If you would like the cookie cutter yow will discover it right here. I’ll be including much more cutters every day so be sure you go to usually. 

Bear hugs,

Lisa