Hi I’m Melissa, and I’m bad at icing sugar cookies. Okay, I can get my royal icing to the proper consistency, I can color the icing to every color in the rainbow. But I can’t look at a blank cookie and create a cute, fancy, intricate design. I have spent years dabbling with royal iced sugar cookies and I have gotten the basics down! I finally realized that I need to be esigning cookies my own way. I can decorate a simple design really well. So I deconstructed the turkey and created 2 simple designs. The feather cookie is a simple design, and the turkey cookie is simple as well. When they get stacked together…tada! Here’s a breakdown of how I made these.
I was going for an orange brown color for the turkey, I guess I ended up with a pumpkin pie color, but I like it!
This is the exact color I envisioned for the feathered wings. I used Sweet Sugarbelle’s color tutorial on these cookies, it was so helpful! I had a few ideas for the look of the feathered wings so I tried them all. I definitely don’t love how all these styles look, but I was playing around.
I added white eyes, a dark brown center iris, and yellow beak and feet. I used the tutorial from the Bearfoot Baker to make the uneven crazy eyes. I didn’t make royal icing transfers because these cookies were pretty small, but I used the same idea. I had a few ideas for the look of the turkey feet as you can see here, but in the end I only liked one of the choices.
I forgot to take a separate picture, but added the red hanging thing to the turkey beak (did you know it’s called a snood? I did not). I also decorated the feather cookie extremely simply, kind of looks like a peacock. Here you can see the cookie cutters I designed to cut these cookies. I have had this cookie idea for a while, but I am not a fan of cutting cookies by hand. With this cutter set, it makes cookie making much more fun! You can buy the cutter set here.
Gobble gobble.
Adorable
These are the cutest cookies!