Category: Thanksgiving

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Thankful Pie

Looking for a fun way to help the kiddos focus on their blessings while the turkey is cooking?

How about making a simple little Thankful Pie?

Paint the edges of a paper plate a light brown–to look like pie crust.

Next, use a bowl to trace a circle out of pumpkin colored scrapbook paper.  Cut it out and glue it to the middle of the paper plate.

Attach a plain paper plate to the back of your “pie” with a brad fastened in the middle.

Cut out a wedge from the top “pie” plate–being careful not to cut too near the middle.

You can write whatever you’d like on your pie. We passed out stickers for everyone to write their “blessings” on.

Then, we stuck them on the wedge space, turned it a few inches and attached another.  You’d be surprised at how many blessings your pie will hold.

As you can see…everyone had different ideas…of what to be thankful for.

For me…it’s all pretty obvious. Don’t you think?

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Sabbath: a Day of Thanksgiving

“This Sabbath day has been designated as a day of thanksgiving, a day of gratitude—even a day of prayer. We pause, we ponder, we reflect on the blessings an all-wise Heavenly Father has bestowed upon us, His children, by bringing comfort to the hearts of so many in this wonderful world where we live and which we call home”

~Thomas S. Monson

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Chocolate Pilgrim Hats

I know…I know. You’re thinking, “What?! Two cookie projects in one week?!! Launi, Launi–what are you doing?”

Hang on now–admit it. Aren’t these the dang cutest things you’ve seen in a long time? You know they are, so you see? I couldn’t help myself. Here they are…

Start with Fudge Stripe cookies, Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups–the little ones,

Fruit roll-ups and Pez–any color. I was a bit disheartened to find that I only had pink Pez. Not sure how the pilgrims would feel about pink…but we forged bravely ahead.

At first, I thought we’d need frosting to glue everything together, but there is an interesting thing that happens when you put chocolate by more chocolate. They tend to stick. So, while I was mocking up the hats with sincere plans to make the frosting later, I came back and found that it really wasn’t needed.

I cut the fruit roll ups into strips with a pizza cutter, in a sort of rounded shape.

The better to lay flat around the hat…with.

Set the Pez up to the seam part of the fruit roll up. Again, I was thinking that we’d need frosting–and of course, you are welcome to use it, but these little beggars held together without it as well. And quite frankly, I’m not a huge icing fan–so why muck up a good thing if you don’t need to?

And there you have it my dears.

I think this yummy project would make lovely little diversions for the “kid’s table” on Thanksgiving.

What do you think?
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The Pumpkinless Pie

My cute little daddy–in the middle, with the beard–had worked in a bakeshop of one kind or another, ever since he was about 8 years old. So, when he went into the Navy, it was only natural that he became a cook. To hear him talk, he must have loved it. One story that he told us when we were little, was of being on a battleship, somewhere out in the middle of the South Pacific on Thanksgiving Day.

He said the food was always as good as they could possibly make it, considering what they had to work with. But today, the guys were hoping for something more–anything that would make them feel just a little closer to those they loved back home.

Canned turkey was expected, along with some sort of dried bread stuffing and soggy vegetables, but what they all were missing the most, they said, was pumpkin pie. Of course there was no pumpkin–fresh or canned out in the middle of the ocean–during a war. But that wasn’t good enough for my smarty-pants dad.

He thought about it and thought about it and realized that cooked pumpkin, in many ways, is quite similar to…

carrots. Yesiree. Carrots.

So, while no one was looking, he cooked them up and added all the right spices, milk, and sugar. He said, that he found that if you treat a carrot like a pumpkin, it will act just like one. So when the “pumpkin” pie was served that day–it was perfect. Everyone thought it was a miracle or that pumpkins had just dropped out of the sky or something. They never knew. But they didn’t think too hard about it because they were way too busy being grateful for all their blessings…

and their amazing Superman cook–my cute little daddy….

who saved Thanksgiving Day.

And that’s the way he told it…

except for the Superman bit…that was all mine.

heh, heh.

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Happy Veterans Day!

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Turkey Cookies

Note–I am purposely RE-posting today’s blog post. Forgive the previous submission. Moral of the story: Never attempt to write intelligently at 2 am. Sheesh

Don’t you just LOVE my sweet–and I mean SWEET–little Tom Turkey? Don’t you just want to gobble him up? Ha! Gobble.  Get it? That’s a good one.

These little guys would make a great neighbor treat or think how great they’d look on the Thanksgiving table.

Turkey Cookies

Ingredients

Fudge Mallows cookies

Iced Oatmeal cookies

Chocolate frosting

Swedish fish, candy corn and anything else you’d like to use.

You likely don’t need tons of instructions now–but just in case…

Cut the marshmallow cookies in half.

Glue it–with chocolate frosting–marshmallow side down, onto the oatmeal cookie.

Pipe a frosting “turkey body” straight up onto the marshmallow cookie.

Cut the Swedish fish up for feet, wings, beaks, eyes or whatever strikes you.

Give your little “Turkey-Lurkey” a face, beak, feet and a waddle from the decorettes and cut up Swedish Fish.

“Glue” tail feathers onto the back of the same cookies.

The little papooses will love this part…

and be quite proud of…

their little gobblers…

in the end. And rightly so.

Gallery of Turkey Creations

Sweet little turkeys nearly too cute to gobble.

I said, nearly.

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Turkey Cookies
 
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Ingredients
  • Fudge Mallows cookies
  • Iced Oatmeal cookies
  • Chocolate frosting
  • Swedish fish, candy corn and anything else you'd like to use.
Instructions
  1. Cut the marshmallow cookies in half.Glue it--with chocolate frosting--marshmallow side down, onto the oatmeal cookie.
  2. Pipe a frosting "turkey body" straight up onto the marshmallow cookie.
  3. Cut the Swedish fish up for feet, wings, beaks, eyes or whatever strikes you.
  4. Give your little "Turkey-Lurkey" a face, beak, feet and a waddle from the decorettes and cut up Swedish Fish.
  5. "Glue" tail feathers onto the back of the same cookies.