Have fun this Thanksgiving with a cute Peeps Treat! Everyone loves peeps and this easy kid-friendly Thanksgiving treat just takes a few moments to put together. You can even use this as a fun edible Thanksgiving craft! My niece actually does something similar like this for the little kids in the family (she uses cupcakes instead of cookies)! And it’s always a hit.
Peeps Minis Turkeys
INGREDIENTS
24 Chocolate Peeps Minis
24 Famous Chocolate Wafers (or 12 Oreos separated with creme removed)
168 Candy Corns
48 Candy Eyes
1/2 cup Red Candy Melting Chips
1/8 cup Orange Candy Melting Chips
DIRECTIONS
Place Red Candy Chips in corner of zippered sandwich bag and microwave for 45 seconds. Knead to make sure it is smooth and melted. If not melted heat additional 15 seconds.
Clip corner of bag for piping.
Lay wafers out on wax paper.
Pipe lines of melted chocolate in a semi circle around top of wafer to act as glue.
Place candy corn in fan shape on wafer as shown.
Gently separate tail of peep from hunder head and fold under.
Pipe a glob of melted candy on bottom to glue tail under.
Pipe two dots on face and glue eyes in place.
Refrigerate peeps and wafers for 10 minutes to set up.
Pipe a waddle under the beak of each Peep.
Pipe a glob of melted candy on wafer to glue Peep in place
Refrigerate for 5 minutes to set up.
Place Orange Candy Chips in corner of zippered sandwich bag and microwave for 45 seconds. Knead to make sure it is smooth and melted.
Clip corner of bag for piping.
Pipe an orange beak on each.
Immediately place in refrigerator for 10 minutes to set candy mix.
Enjoy and Happy Thanksgiving!
**I have a recipe for you to SAVE for later! Here’s a cute Easter Peeps recipe!
Ingredients
- Peeps Minis Turkeys
- INGREDIENTS
- 24 Chocolate Peeps Minis
- 24 Famous Chocolate Wafers or 12 Oreos separated with creme removed
- 168 Candy Corns
- 48 Candy Eyes
- 1/2 cup Red Candy Melting Chips
- 1/8 cup Orange Candy Melting Chips
Instructions
- DIRECTIONS
- Place Red Candy Chips in corner of zippered sandwich bag and microwave for 45 seconds. Knead to make sure it is smooth and melted. If not melted heat additional 15 seconds.
- Clip corner of bag for piping.
- Lay wafers out on wax paper.
- Pipe lines of melted chocolate in a semi circle around top of wafer to act as glue.
- Place candy corn in fan shape on wafer as shown.
- Gently separate tail of peep from hunder head and fold under.
- Pipe a glob of melted candy on bottom to glue tail under.
- Pipe two dots on face and glue eyes in place.
- Refrigerate peeps and wafers for 10 minutes to set up.
- Pipe a waddle under the beak of each Peep.
- Pipe a glob of melted candy on wafer to glue Peep in place
- Refrigerate for 5 minutes to set up.
- Place Orange Candy Chips in corner of zippered sandwich bag and microwave for 45 seconds. Knead to make sure it is smooth and melted.
- Clip corner of bag for piping.
- Pipe an orange beak on each.
- Immediately place in refrigerator for 10 minutes to set candy mix.
Teri@The Freshman Cook says
Absolutely so cute! Very creative! I would love if you would share this at my blog party, Celebrate It! It is all about celebrating our everyday wonderful lives!
Katie @ Horrific Knits says
Oh, how adorable! My name is Katie and I host Fall Into the Holidays, now open. All entries get pinned. I would love to have you link up!
Sarah @ Sarah's Kitchen says
Oh how I love your mini turkeys 😀 So cute ^^