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Ready to make the cutest desert your Thanksgiving dinner has ever seen? All you need are three ingredients and my printable template to create these adorable OREO cookie ball turkeys!
Ingredients:
- 1 pkg (8 oz.) brick cream cheese, softened
- 36 OREO Cookies, finely crushed (about 3 cups)
- 4 pkg. (4 oz. each) semi-sweet baking chocolate, melted
Make it!
- MIX cream cheese and cookie crumbs until blended.
- SHAPE into 48 (1-inch) balls. Freeze 10 min. Dip balls in melted chocolate; place in single layer in shallow waxed paper-lined pan.
- CUSTOMIZE it with your own ingredient additions or decorative skills.
- REFRIGERATE 1 hour or until firm.
- While your cookie balls are in the refrigerator, make your turkey heads and tails by printing off the template, cutting out the shapes, and gluing them to toothpicks. (Hint: one toothpick cut in half works perfectly for one turkey tail and one head)
- When cookie balls are firm, attach one head and one tail to each “body.”
Share and enjoy!
I love OREO cookie balls (but who doesn’t?)! And I love this recipe, because it is super simple, and you can customize it however you want. If you prefer peanut butter flavored OREOS, go for it—if you want to use milk chocolate candy melts to make brown turkeys, more power to you!
Plus, these OREO cookie ball turkeys are also a great way to get the little ones involved! Thanksgiving food-prep isn’t always something that children get to be a part of, but dressing up these OREO cookie balls to look like turkeys is definitely a fun way that they can help out and tell everyone at Thanksgiving dinner that they did.
You can find OREOS in the cookie isle at your local Walmart.
Enjoy making (and consuming) these adorable “gobblers!” They are sure to be a crowd favorite at your next Thanksgiving get together!!
What do you usually bring to Thanksgiving dinner?
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Mandee is a professional graphic designer, amateur bird watcher, and rollercoaster enthusiast. She is a wife to hardworking high school teacher and mommy to three adorable little humans. She fell in love with graphic design when she started working on a comedy website with a guy she met her freshman year of college. Design wasn’t the only thing she fell in love with, and they were married a year and a half later. She created Designs By Miss Mandee to be a place where she could merge her passion for design with her lifelong love of crafting. 19 Comments on OREO Cookie Ball Turkeys
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EverythingKaysi
November 6, 2015 at 5:45 pm (9 years ago)I love this idea for the cake ball! so creative:)
Mandee
November 7, 2015 at 5:15 pm (9 years ago)Thank you very much! Glad you like the idea too. 🙂
Paula@SweetPea
November 9, 2015 at 9:32 am (9 years ago)These are adorable! Thanks so much for sharing with Best of the Weekend.
Mandee
November 9, 2015 at 10:09 am (9 years ago)Thanks so much Paula!
Diane Krist
November 22, 2015 at 12:31 pm (9 years ago)Those are adorable!
Mandee
November 24, 2015 at 1:07 pm (9 years ago)Thanks Diane!
Jeanette
November 11, 2015 at 8:42 pm (9 years ago)Oh my word! Oreo Cookie Ball Turkeys – so stinkin cute! The bigs and the littles will love these! Pinning this adorable guys!
Mandee
November 12, 2015 at 8:51 am (9 years ago)Thanks Jeanette! You are so right!! They are really yummy, and who wouldn’t love these cuties? ^_^
Diana Rambles
November 12, 2015 at 2:34 pm (9 years ago)Congratulations! This post is featured over at Diana Rambles this week and has been pinned in the Featured at Diana Rambles board at Pinterest, Yummed, and shared on Twitter. Please grab a featured button via the post guidelines graphic. Thanks for sharing this awesome recipe!
Mandee
November 12, 2015 at 3:58 pm (9 years ago)Thanks so much Diana! This is fantastic news. 😀
Lou Lou Girls
November 15, 2015 at 12:07 pm (9 years ago)This is perfect! Pinned and tweeted. We appreciate you taking the time to party with us! I hope to see you on Monday at 7 pm, so we get to see your fabulous new creations. The party goes until Friday at 7 pm. Happy Sunday! Lou Lou Girls
Blanca D
November 19, 2015 at 3:56 pm (9 years ago)This is so cute! love it! you did an awesome job.
Mandee
November 24, 2015 at 1:07 pm (9 years ago)Thanks Blanca! I’m glad you like them. 😀
Katie Gaddis
November 23, 2015 at 6:06 am (9 years ago)CUTE! The first thing I thought was “NAME PLACE CARDS!” You could hand write a name or initial on each tail. Our family did this for years even though we all knew each other! it was understood we could sit wherever we wanted, this was just one fun tradition we always enjoyed for holiday dinners.
Mandee
November 24, 2015 at 1:08 pm (9 years ago)Yeah, you totally could! And how fun would that be!? I’m sure everyone would love it. 🙂
Prinsas
November 23, 2015 at 2:30 pm (9 years ago)Using these as placecards!
Mandee
November 24, 2015 at 1:09 pm (9 years ago)That’s an awesome idea! I’m sure your guest are going to love the personalization. 😀
vickie braun
November 23, 2015 at 7:32 pm (9 years ago)I really want to make these for thanksgiving but can’t figure out how to download the template. Please help, time is running out
Mandee
November 24, 2015 at 1:15 pm (9 years ago)Hi Vikie,
If you click on the “Download” button just under the first image (above the ingredients), it will take you to the file in Google Drive. Then, just click on the download button (down arrow icon) above the files.
Hope that helps!