Historic Gathering

Thanksgiving

Liven Up the Children's Table with Great Food and Fun Activities

NOTE: Ideas are compliments from Wilton, per email to me 11/06. Products from this manuf. are only availble, usually, for a few months to one year. If you are reading this after 2006, and you find the products no longer listed, there will be others you can substitute on the page links below.

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Tools:     * Mini Leaves Candy Mold 2115-1540 this mold no longer available.     * Cordial Cups Candy Mold 2115-1535     * 101 Cookie Cutters Set (circle cutters used) 2304-1000     * Maple Leaf Metal Cutter 2308-1201     * 6 in. Cookie Treat Sticks 1912-9319     * Disposable Decorating Bags     * Cookie Sheets     * Cookie Grid     * Non-Stick Parchment Paper Ingredients:   Food Colors:     * Copper Icing Color (skin tone)     *      * Garden Candy Color Set 1913-1298     * Candy Color Set 1913-1299   Sugars:     * Red Colored Sugars      * Yellow Colored Sugars     * Orange Colored Sugars   Other:     * Coco-lite Merckens Coating Chocolate     * Roll-Out Cookie Dough Recipe     * Black shoestring licorice     * Orange spice drops     * Cocoa powder

Reserve small amount of plain cookie dough. Tint half of remaining dough skin tone. Tint other half of dough light brown by adding cocoa powder and kneading into dough. Roll out tinted dough and cut out heads using middle size circle cutter from set. Roll out plain dough and cut turkey feathers using maple leaf cutter. Sprinkle feathers with colored sugars. Bake and cool all cookies.

Using candy colors, tint portions of melted white candy black, red, light pink, yellow, green and orange. Mold mini leaf candies for headband feathers: use painting method and orange candy for veins; refrigerate until firm. Use marbleizing technique link to and orange, yellow and green candy to complete feathers; refrigerate until firm. Decorate all heads using melted candy in cut bag to pipe dot eyes and cheeks, string mouths and hair. To make pilgrim girl hat, place large and medium size circle cutters on parchment paper-lined cookie sheet. Fill with melted candy and refrigerate until firm. Unmold and cut 1 1/8 in. from bottom of large circle for brim. Attach medium circle to brim with melted candy. To make pilgrim boy hat, pipe a 2 1/2 in. diameter candy circle on parchment paper for brim, mold a cordial cup for hat; refrigerate until firm. Attach hat to brim with melted candy; pipe band and buckle with melted candy; refrigerate until firm. For Native American boy and girl, pipe headband directly on cookie using melted candy in cut bag. For girl?s braids, cut 3 1/2 in. licorice strings, twist together and trim to 2 1/2 in.; attach bottom pieces together with melted black candy. To make bows, roll out spice drops and cut with scissors in bow shape. Attach to braids with melted candy.

For turkey: Using melted cocoa candy in cut bag, pipe 1 1/4 in. oval body and ball head. Pipe beak, eyes, wattle and wings. Pipe feet on parchment paper, refrigerate until firm, carefully remove and attach to turkey with melted candy. Attach hats, headband feathers, leaves, braids and sticks to cookies with melted candy.

Each serves 1

Ingredients:

    * 1 cup unsalted butter, softened
    * 1 1/2 cups granulated sugar
    * 1 egg
    * 1 1/2 teaspoons Clear Vanilla Extract
    * 1/2 teaspoon No-Color Almond Extract
    * 2 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
    * 2 teaspoons baking powder
    * 1 teaspoon salt

Preheat oven to 400°F. In mixing bowl, cream butter with sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in egg and extracts. Mix flour, baking powder and salt; add to butter mixture 1 cup at a time, mixing after each addition. Do not chill dough. Divide dough into 2 balls. On a floured surface, roll each ball into a circle approximately 12 in. wide and 1/8 in. thick. Dip cookie cutter in flour before each use. Bake cookies on ungreased cookie sheet 6-7 minutes or until cookies are lightly browned.

Recipe may be doubled.

Makes about 3 dozen cookies.