Thanksgiving Cookies

Enjoy these ideas for Thanksgiving Cookies. Please visit our Thanksgiving Symbols page to learn more about how to use these symbols as teaching tools.

Note: We used Wilton’s Thanksgiving Cookie Cutters for all of these cookies.

Ingredients:

Cookie:
3 cups flour
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1 cup butter
2 eggs
1 cup sugar

Frosting:
2 tablespoons hot water
1 tablespoon butter
1 1/2 cups powdered sugar
food coloring
ziploc bags
cookie cutters

Directions:

Cookie:
1. Mix together flour, powder and soda. Cut in butter to look like cornmeal.
2. In a separate bowl, beat eggs. Add sugar and beat well. Combine with flour mixture and chill for about an hour.
3. Roll out and cut out shapes.
4. Place on ungreased cookie sheet, and bake at 375 degrees for about 10 minutes.

Frosting:
1. Pour hot water over butter to melt it.
2. Add sugar, and blend with electric mixer until smooth.
3. Add additional water or sugar to the frosting to obtain the right consistency.
4. Separate frosting into bowls to add food coloring. Spread frosting (or pipe with a ziploc bag) on cookies when they are cool.

	How to Frost the Turkey Cookie: Frost the cookie with brown frosting. Place each color (yellow, red, black, brown, and orange) in a separate ziploc bag. Cut a small corner off the edge of each ziploc bag. Carefully pipe the beak, wattle and eye. For the feathers, pipe the frosting in a zigzag motion.
	How to Frost the Leaf Cookie: Frost the cookie with brown frosting. Add drops of water to the red and orange frosting to obtain a thin consistency. Place red and orange frosting in separate ziploc bags. Cut a small corner off the edge of each ziploc bag. Pipe a line of red and a line of orange frosting in the middle of the cookie. Use a spoon to carefully spread the colors throughout the cookie.
	How to Frost the Pumpkin Cookie: Frost the cookie with orange frosting. Place orange frosting in a ziploc bag. Cut a small corner off the edge of the ziploc bag. Pipe a stem and leaves onto the cookie.

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