Peanut Butter Cup Turkey Cookies

By lberry08

Ingredients

• Cookies
• 3 cups unbleached, all-purpose flour*
• 2 teaspoons baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
• 3/4 cup shortening
• 1/4 cup unsalted butter
• 1 cup Imperial Sugar Extra Fine Granulated Sugar
• 1 cup Imperial Sugar Light Brown Sugar
• 2 eggs
• 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
• 1 cup smooth peanut butter
• Frosting
• Double recipe Basic Butter Cream Frosting
• 4 tablespoons smooth peanut butter
• Red, Orange, and Yellow food colorings (gel paste preferred)
• Assembly
• 1/2 cup chocolate chips
• 30 peanut butter cups
• 60 white chocolate chips
• Spoon & Sweep method: Use a spoon to fill measuring cup with flour until required amount is obtained. Scooping measuring cup directly into flour bag will firmly pack flour resulting in too much flour required for recipe.

Details

Servings 30
Preparation time 45mins
Cooking time 58mins
Adapted from imperialsugar.com

Preparation

Step 1

DIRECTIONS

Preheat oven to 350. Line cookie sheets with parchment paper.

In a medium bowl, whisk the flour, baking soda and salt together. Set aside.

In a large bowl of an electric mixer, cream the shortening, butter and sugars together until light and fluffy. Beat in the eggs and vanilla until combined. Add in the peanut butter and mix until smooth.

Stir in the flour mixture.

, adding the peanut butter at the end and beating until incorporated.

Melt the dark chocolate chips and place in a piping bag. Snip off the end.

Apply the melted chocolate to the top of the peanut butter cup, and place face down onto the cookie so that the bottom of the cup is face up.

Press 2 white chocolate chips into each peanut butter cup for the eyes. Use the melted chocolate to add pupils.

Fit three piping bags with star tips, and fill with the red, orange and yellow buttercream. Starting with the yellow, closest to the peanut butter cup, pipe “feathers.” Add a row of orange and a row of red.

Switch the tips on the red and orange frosting to #2 tips. Add the feet with orange frosting and smiles in the red.

Note: To make only a dozen turkeys, make a single batch of buttercream (adding 2 tablespoons peanut butter), use 12 peanut butter cups, and you’ll have 18 big, delicious, peanut butter cookies leftover.