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Turkey Cake Pops

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Couldn’t resist the cake pops again–only this time we’re making turkeys…a pack of them.

Or is it a gaggle?

Who knows…

You will need:

cake mix

tub of frosting

colored mini chips

red Starbursts (2 should do it)

peanut m&ms (red, orange and yellow)

food color markers

sucker sticks

candy corn

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Start with the cake pop recipe from a few months back–this time we used chocolate cake and frosting. Dip them in Chocolate melts, and insert the sucker sticks. Now take them to the freezer to chill up a bit.

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Sort out some yellow and orange mini chips–these will be your beaks.

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You will use the markers to draw on the eyes.

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Stick the mini chip beaks onto the M&Ms with the candy melts. We took tiny pinches of red Starbursts and shaped them into little waddles–and stuck them on the same way.

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Then draw on the eyes with the edible markers.

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Aren’t they just dang cute?

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Stick the candy corn “feathers” on with the chocolate melts. It worked best to lay the turkey down like this to hold the feathers on while they dry. The candy melts set up quickly–so while they are setting you can add the cute little turkey heads–stick them on with the chocolate as well.

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Now they are ready to grace your Thanksgiving table or—if you’re like us–they will make the perfect little neighbor treats.

Or you could just eat them all by yourself…

Hmmmm….splendid idea…

gobble-gobble.

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An Attitude of Gratitude

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“This is a wonderful time to be living here on earth. Our opportunities are limitless. While there are some things wrong in the world today, there are many things right, such as teachers who teach, ministers who minister, marriages that make it, parents who sacrifice, and friends who help.

“We can lift ourselves, and others as well, when we refuse to remain in the realm of negative thought and cultivate within our hearts an attitude of gratitude. If ingratitude be numbered among the serious sins, then gratitude takes its place among the noblest of virtues”

~Thomas S. Monson

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Personal Pilgrim Placecards

Awwww….Wouldn’t you just love some cute little pilgrims–like this, on your own Thanksgiving table?

Or maybe you’d prefer–a handsome devil like this? Trust me…it’s simple. All you have to do is:

Print out the pattern–at the bottom of the page and cut out the pieces.

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Using the pattern, cut out enough pilgrim pieces for each member of your family.

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Roll the black rectangle and staple it in place.

Wrap the white collar around the black tube–and staple.

Using embroidery scissors–cut along the line on the pilgrims bonnet.

Print out pictures of your family–I made them all about 2-1/2 inches tall. Cut them out.

Glue the pilgrim hat on the boy pilgrim’s head. Slide the girl photos into the white caps.

Now you’re ready to put your pilgrim together. Oh, and for the babies bodies, I trimmed the black body pieces about 1-1/2 inches–so they were shorter.

Slide the heads between the black piece and the white collar and glue lightly in place. Let them dry for about 30 minutes and they’ll be set for your feasting table.

No need to write anyone’s name on these guys because the kids will love finding themselves on the plate!

For the Personal Pilgrim Place Card Pattern–simply click on the link below.

Happy Harvesting!

Pilgrim Placecards

Turkey Placecards

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Pumpkin Patch Biscuits

I first saw these little do-dads in Taste of Home Magazine and thought, “Oooohhhh…” and then, with it being National Homemade Bread Day–I know, I know, but it IS–I figured these would just about qualify.

They don’t have any of the pumpkin spices that you would expect in a pumpkin bread, but it is nice to know that there is a good dose of vegetables in that little biscuit.

They are soft and flaky besides. Beat that. Oh, yeah and they taste really, really good.

Ask Chompy.

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Pumpkin Patch Biscuits

Ingredients

1-3/4 cups all-purpose flour
1/4 cup packed brown sugar
2-1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 cup butter
3/4 cup canned pumpkin
1/3 cup buttermilk

Directions:

In a large bowl, combine the flour, brown sugar, baking powder, salt and baking soda. Cut in 1/2 cup butter until mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Combine pumpkin and buttermilk; stir into crumb mixture just until moistened.
Turn onto a lightly floured surface; knead 8-10 times. Pat or roll out to 1-in. thickness; cut with a floured 2-1/2-in. biscuit cutter–the top of a mason jar works great. Place 1 in. apart on a greased baking sheet.
Bake at 425° for 18-22 minutes or until golden brown. Brush butter over biscuits. Serve warm.

Pumpkin Patch Biscuits
 
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Ingredients
  • 1-3/4 cups all-purpose flour
  • ¼ cup packed brown sugar
  • 2-1/2 teaspoons baking powder
  • ½ teaspoon salt
  • ¼ teaspoon baking soda
  • ½ cup butter
  • ¾ cup canned pumpkin
  • ⅓ cup buttermilk
Instructions
  1. In a large bowl, combine the flour, brown sugar, baking powder, salt and baking soda.
  2. Cut in ½ cup butter until mixture resembles coarse crumbs.
  3. Combine pumpkin and buttermilk; stir into crumb mixture just until moistened.
  4. Turn onto a lightly floured surface; knead 8-10 times.
  5. Pat or roll out to 1-in. thickness; cut with a floured 2-1/2-in. biscuit cutter–the top of a mason jar works great.
  6. Place 1 in. apart on a greased baking sheet.
  7. Bake at 425° for 18-22 minutes or until golden brown.
  8. Brush butter over biscuits. Serve warm

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Indian Corn Napkin Holders

Now, you may not believe this–but today is National Button Day. No, I swear. It is. You can Google it.

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So, in honor of this fabulous, unforgettable holiday I present to you this sweet napkin holder. Doesn’t it just look like a cob of Indian corn? It was actually really fun to make by myself, but it would be a wonderful project for the kids too. So if you find yourself up to your neck in pie dough and you need to keep your sweeties occupied, this could very well be just the activity you are looking for.

All you need is a bag of craft sticks–like popsicle sticks, paper tubes, random corn colored buttons and craft clue.

You simply put a stripe of glue on the stick…

and glue the buttons on—in any order that suites you. You can use red, brown, yellow, black, white, cream and orange.

I even used dark blue and purple ones here and there.

While the button sticks are drying–if you want to–you can paint the tube yellow or orange. It’s fine left the way it is–but I wondered if it would look better painted, so I gave mine a coat of orange acrylic.

Once you’ve glued the buttons to the sticks–then glue the sticks to the paper tubes.

Once they are dry and set–they are ready to pretty-up your Thanksgiving table.

And a very happy National Button Day–to you!