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    Home » Cute Food » Kid's Treats

    Thanksgiving Treats - Chocolate Turkey Pretzel Pops

    Published: Nov 13, '13 · Modified: Nov 5, '17 · By: Beth · This post may contain affiliate links.

    These chocolate covered pretzel turkeys are wild and ready to be piled, into your mouth that is. Enjoy these Thanksgiving Treats at any course of the meal. I will totally back you up if you claim to your family that they are a palette cleanser.
    Thanksgiving Treats - Chocolate Turkey Pretzel Pops
    If you follow along here on Hungry Happenings, you know I have a bit of an obsession with colorful fall leaves and treats made to look like them. I've made Leaf and Pumpkin Shaped Dinner Rolls Topped with Colored Cheese, Veggie Pizza Leaves, Cheesy Crescent Roll Leaves, and Cheesecake Leaves. I even have some pound cake leaves to share with you soon.
    When I set out to make these turkey pops, I searched through my cookie cutters and plunger cutters to find the perfect feathers for these guys. I finally settled on leaves. No big surprise, to me anyway. I really love the combination of red, yellow, and orange, swirled together in a leaf. They make perfect feathers, don't you think?

    Chocolate Turkey Pretzel Pops

    TIP to keep the chocolate from cracking on your pretzels. Chocolate shrinks as it cools and when it shrinks onto something hard, it usually cracks. If you take the pretzels out of the bag and allow them to sit at room temperature for several hours or overnight they will soften just enough to keep this from happening, but not enough to become stale.

    Ingredients:

    pretzel logs
    melted and tempered pure milk chocolate or melted confectionery coating/candy melts
    white modeling chocolate, recipe here
    orange, yellow, and red candy coloring
    ⅜ inch candy eyes

    Supplies:

    fork
    parchment paper lined baking sheet
    non-stick silicone baking mat  or use powdered sugar or cornstarch to dust work surface
    rolling pin
    leaf plunger cutter or leaf cookie cutter

    Instructions:

    Dip pretzels into melted milk chocolate. Allow to harden. Dip pretzels in melted milk chocolate for a nice thick second coat.  If you'd like your pretzels to look feathered, hold the pretzel for 30-60 seconds, allowing the chocolate to begin drying. Use a fork to press on the sticky chocolate, then pull up quickly to get spikes all over creating a feathered look. Set on a parchment paper lined baking sheet. Allow the pretzels to dry. If using tempered chocolate, just air dry them, if using candy coating or candy melts, freeze them for 3-4 minutes. Don't chill too long or the chocolate will crack on your pretzels.
    You can see step-by-step images for dipping the pretzels on my Farm Animal Pretzel Pop post, here.
    Color your white modeling chocolate using yellow, red, and orange food coloring. See my Chocolate Making Tips page for instructions. 
    Pinch off pea size pieces of orange modeling chocolate and roll into tear drop shaped beaks. Pinch off even smaller pieces of red and shape into waddles (the thing that hangs down around the turkey's beak.) Use a dab of water to attach the waddle to the beak.
    Either dust your work surface with powdered sugar or cornstarch or use a non-stick silicone baking mat. I recently discovered how great it is to use the mat, because your decorations don't end up with powder all over them.
    Pinch off tiny pieces of each modeling chocolate color and mix them all up in a flat layer. Press down on them, then roll them out. For a more swirled effect, twist what you've just rolled out and roll it out again. Cut out using large leaf plunger cutter or a 1 ½ inch leaf cookie cutter.

     

    Arrange five leaves together with the wide ends touching. Press them together. Use melted chocolate to attach the leaves to the back of the pretzel and the eyes, beak and waddle to the front side.
    For some reason, I had a heck of a time photographing these Chocolate Turkey Pretzel Pops and took over 50 shots. I love how this image really shows the detail in the feathers (leaves) on the turkey, but the color of the chocolate is washed out.
    This one is a bit better. Which pictures look better to you?
    Store your Turkey Pretzel Pops in an airtight container at room temperature for up to three weeks. Just be sure if you are making these ahead of time, that you check the expiration date on your pretzel rods. The chocolate will keep much longer than the pretzels will.
    These chocolate covered pretzel turkeys are wild and ready to be piled, into your mouth that is. Enjoy these Thanksgiving Treats at any course of the meal. I will totally back you up if you claim to your family that they are a palette cleanser.

    Items used to create this project that are available on Amazon.com (commission earned for sales)

    More Pretzel Pops and Thanksgiving Chocolates
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    Chocolate Turkey Box filled with small chocolate turkeys

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    Be sure to check out all of my amazing Thanksgiving Recipes

    Dress up your holiday table with some cute Thanksgiving food. Your family will adore these sweet and savory Thanksgiving recipes.

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    Hi, I'm Beth Jackson Klosterboer, a professional chocolatier & baker, cookbook author, and event planner. I love sharing recipes for happy occasions here on Hungry Happenings. I also create easy fudge recipes to share at HowToMakeEasyFudge.com, rice krispie treat recipes at HowToMakeCerealTreats.com, and easy cookie recipes at HowToMakeEasyCookies.com
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    1. Sumo @ Sumo's Sweet Stuff

      November 22, 2013 at 9:47 pm

      And also super darling! My kids would love these. I'll also be featuring these on my blog tomorrow.

      http://www.sumossweetstuff.com

      Thanks for linking up to the Block Party!
      Sumo:)

      Reply
      • beth

        November 22, 2013 at 9:52 pm

        Thanks so much for the feature! I love joining in on your block party:)

        Reply
    2. Brenda @ Chatting Over Chocolate

      November 20, 2013 at 2:05 am

      Everything you create looks as cute as it does delicious!! Thanks for inspiring all of us through your talent and creativity! {Pinned!}

      Reply
      • beth

        November 20, 2013 at 2:33 am

        It's my pleasure! I truly love making fun food:)

        Reply
    3. Steph @ Three Loud Kids!

      November 19, 2013 at 7:05 pm

      These are too cute! They would be a perfect snack on Thanksgiving!

      Reply
    4. Diane Roark

      November 18, 2013 at 2:30 pm

      I found you from a blog hop. These turkeys are truly adorable!! You are so creative!

      Please join me on Fridays for my blog hop at www.recipesforourdailybread.com I look forward to following you on all your social medias.
      Blessings, Diane

      Reply
    5. Susan @ Oh My! Creative

      November 15, 2013 at 3:23 am

      You are so talented with fun food!

      Reply
      • beth

        November 15, 2013 at 3:35 am

        Thanks, so much, Susan!

        Reply
    6. Project Denneler

      November 14, 2013 at 2:35 am

      Great gobblers! Love the colored leaves and the texture effect on the chocolate.

      Reply
    7. Michelle Clausen

      November 14, 2013 at 2:28 am

      Always love your pretzel stick creations! adorbs!

      Reply
    8. Jill @ KitchenFunWithMy3Sons.com

      November 14, 2013 at 1:32 am

      Love how you made the feathers...so cute! We are thinking alike today...we just posted Turkey Pretzel Rods as well!:)

      Reply

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