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Nutter Butter Turkey Cookies Recipe

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The list of ingredients is so you can make a dozen Turkey Nutter Butter Cookies. If you need to make more (or less), you can just change the amount of the ingredients.

Nutter Butter Turkey Cookies Ingredients:

You can get the full list of ingredients with measurements in the recipe card below.

• Chocolate almond bark – Almond bark melts easier and is easier to work with than chocolate chips because if it hardens, you can simply remelt it. You can’t do that with chocolate chips. Once they harden, they’re done.
• Nutter Butter Cookies – You can use different cookies as long as they are similarly shaped.
• Candy eyes – Candy eyes come in various sizes. Look for the smaller, mini size for these cookies.
• Mini Reese’s Pieces – These will be the nose of your cookie. If you can’t find mini Reese’s pieces, look for mini M&M’s or chocolate-coated sunflower seeds. We don’t recommend using a full-sized candy because it would be too big and wouldn’t be the right proportion for the turkey’s face.
• Mini pretzel twists – If you can’t find pretzel twists, you can try using sticks (but they might look funny).
• Thanksgiving sprinkles – Any fall colored sprinkles will work.

How To Make Nutter Butter Turkey Cookies:

Melt two of the pieces of chocolate almond bark in a microwave-safe bowl.

The easiest way to do this is to melt for one minute, then stir. Then, microwave and stir at 30 second intervals until the chocolate almond bark is completely melted.

Stick the top half of the cookie halfway into the melted chocolate. Gently tap it in the edge of the bowl to knock off any excess melted chocolate. Place it on a silicone baking mat-lined cookie sheet.

While the chocolate is still warm, stick in two candy eyeballs.

Between the eyes, add a Reese’s pieces candy for the turkey beak. You want to put the mini Reese’s pieces candy sideways, rather than flat, to make a slim beak.

Continue until you’ve dipped all of the cookies.

If you want, you could melt red candy melts and put them in a piping bag or plastic bag with a corner cut off. Then, pipe a wattle or snood (the wattle is the flesh that hangs from a turkey’s neck and the snood is the part that hangs from a nose. Both are red, both are things people notice but don’t know the real name for).

​I had originally intended to make these, but the cookies looked so cute without them that I didn’t feel the need for them. If you do, go right ahead.

Now it’s time to make the tail feathers.

Melt the rest of your chocolate almond bark.

Drop a pretzel in it. Use a fork to knock off any excess melted chocolate. Put the dipped pretzel on a silicone baking mat-lined cookie sheet.

Dip a second pretzel and put it next to the first pretzel with the double rounded side out. 

Do this two more times to make a full pretzel circle.

While that’s still warm, stick your little turkeys into the center of the pretzels.

Quickly sprinkle the sprinkles on the exposed portion of the turkey feathers. Let that cool while you’re making the rest of the Nutter Butter turkeys.

Let them cool to room temperature before eating.

Nutter Butter Turkey Cookies: Frequently Asked Questions

More Thanksgiving Cookies:

If you have leftover Nutter Butter Cookies and want to make another festive treat with them, check out our Nutter Butter Acorns recipe. Those are also easy no bake cookies that only require you to melt chocolate and dip.

And don’t forget about out Turkey Oreo Cookies, which are similar to this.