Spirited Essence Works

My boys love to cook and bake. They also love arts and crafts. So, I took their love of both and combined it into one. Who doesn’t want to play with your food to make it look like something else. These Thanksgiving treats will bring the whole family together for an evening of fun decorating and baking. You could make these to deliver around your neighborhood to spread Thanksgiving cheer or serving them with the turkey and pumpkin pie on Thanksgiving day!

Pilgrim Hats

Prep Time: 20 mins

Serving: 2 1/2 dozen

Ingredients:

1 package of fudge striped cookies

1 bag of Rolos, unwrapped

1 bag of M & M’s (we used just the yellow ones)

Orange decorating icing

Directions:

Take your fudge striped cookies and turn upside down. Make a ring of icing on the bottom of your Rolo. Then, stick it in the middle of the upside down fudge striped cookie. Put a dot of icing on the back of a M&M. Then, stick it to the side of your Rolo. And there you go, you made a pilgrim hat! Repeat steps with the rest of your fudge striped cookies.

Turkey Oreos

Prep Time: 20 mins

Serving: 2 1/2 dozen

Ingredients:

1 package of Vanilla Oreos

1 package of mini Nutter Butters

1 bag of candy corn

1 bag of M & M’s

1 bag of mini chocolate chips

Orange or Red decorating icing

Directions:

Take 3-4 M&M’s and stick them in the cream middle on the top of the Vanilla Oreo. Then, put a dot of icing on the back of the mini Nutter Butter and stick it to the front of the Vanilla Oreo. With the M&M’s on top, using the icing to adhere a candy corn for the turkey beak onto the Nutter Butter. Then, use icing to adhere two chocolate chips above candy corn as eyes. By golly, you’ve made a turkey now! Repeat steps with the rest of your Oreos.

Pumpkin Rice Crispy Treats

Prep Time: 15 mins

Cook Time: 15 mins

Total Time: 30 mins

Serving: 2 dozen

Ingredients:

4 cups of small marshmellows

6 cups of Rice Crispies

1 tsp of cinnamon

1/2 tsp of pumpkin pie spice

1/4 cup of pumpkin puree

3 Tbsp of Butter

1 bag of Rolos, unwrapped

1 bag of M & M’s (we just used the green ones)

Directions:

In a large pot, on medium low heat, melt your butter and add your marshmellows.

Then, add your pumpkin purée to your melted marshmellow mixture along with your cinnamon and pumpkin pie spice.

Mix in your Rice Crispies. Let cool for about 5 mins. Then roll handfuls of the mixture into balls. Cut a Rolo in half and place on top of rice crispy treat ball as a pumpkin stem. Then, stick a green M&M next to the Rolo as a pumpkin leaf. Then, you have a made a tasty pumpkin treat!

If you would rather make your treats with Cheerios, try out my Pumpkin Spice Marshmellows Treats recipe.

Happy Thanksgiving! Have fun baking and cherish making memories with your family!