The next year I didn’t even think about attempting that
fiasco, but I had forgotten the kid factor.
“Mom, are we going to make those turkeys again?”
I once read in one of those ‘So You’ve Got a Baby, But You Haven’t
Got a Clue’ books, that advised to “Start as you mean to go on.” I took it to mean don’t get into any habits
you’ll regret later, with a habit being something you have to do repetitively
or at least more than once. I didn’t think it literally meant don’t ever start
anything you don’t ever want to do again, and maybe it didn’t, but maybe it
did. Because while my kids have to be
reminded daily that they have to pick up their things, do their homework and brush
their teeth, it seems if I make a few lousy deformed turkeys one time, and
never speak of it again, a full year later they will not only remember those
turkeys, but they will expect them every year from then on. There are quite a few things I’ve done over
the years, because I thought it would be fun to try once. Around here we end up calling those things
traditions.
So following our new tradition I made the turkeys again,
without feathers. My husband and I
agreed that the Cocoa Krispies® of the previous year were kind of disgusting,
so I used regular Rice Krispies®. Also,
even though the legs weren’t difficult to poke in like the tail feathers, we
don’t really eat a lot of pretzels and it didn’t seem worth it to get a whole
bag just to make a few stick legs, so I left those off. I guess I should also admit that my turkey’s
had more of a deformed circus peanut shape, than the one in the picture. That seemingly simple pear shape still eludes
me to this day. I don’t know why. So for Thanksgiving we had featherless,
legless, deformed, albino turkeys.
And so we went as we meant to go on.
This year I got a little fancy and coated their chubby little
turkey bellies with chocolate. Some in
white and some in dark. I don’t like
milk chocolate, and while I’m slowly bringing my children over to the dark side,
they’ll balk at dark dark chocolate.
Lindt makes a wonderful sweet dark that’s the perfect happy medium for
everyone.
Nice, but what do turkeys have to with Halloween crafts?
Into everything a little Halloween must shine, so I give you turkey
zombies. Decorating with frosting isn’t
one of my strong suits, but you get the point and maybe someone with more talent
will see this and take it to the next level.
I think I might have liked the richer color of candy melts, but I didn’t
have any.
No actual turkeys were harmed in the creation of this post, but a few Rice Krispies Treats® were horribly brutalized before they met their untimely deaths.
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