Edible Thanksgiving Turkey Place Card or Centerpiece

• Produce

  • 3 Baby carrots
  • 1 Cherries, dried
  • 1 Dried apricots
  • 1 Pears
  • 1 Pineapple, dried

• Baking & Spices

  • 1 Edible craft glue or frosting

• Desserts

  • 1 Candy eye balls

• Other

  • toothpicks

Found on thefirstyearblog.com

Description

Ingredients

• pears, one pear per turkey, preferably with flatter bottoms so the turkey will sit upright
• dried pineapple, cut into smaller pieces
• dried apricots, cut into smaller pieces
• dried cherries
• toothpicks
• a few baby carrots
• candy eye balls
• edible craft glue or frosting, to attach the eye balls

Directions

• Cut the dried pineapple and apricots into smaller pieces, about the same size as the cherries. Assemble a whole bunch of ‘turkey feathers’ by arranging the dried fruit onto toothpicks. I found that I used about 11-13 feather toothpicks per turkey. Stick the toothpicks into the pear, putting them relatively close to each other. Use a baby carrot to cut 2 wings and a triangle beak. Attach those elements with small broken toothpicks. Add the candy eye balls with edible craft glue or a small amount of frosting. Add a name card - I attached mine to a toothpick and stuck it under the turkey’s wing. Place on the table near each plate or add to the table as a centerpiece. Add little carrot feet if you want. Make a cute sign that says Gobble me up! or A little pre-turkey snack!