Serve a rare bird this Thanksgiving. Top a pumpkin pie with a turkey shaped from pastry shapes cut with our medium and large round cutters from our 101-Piece Cookie Cutters Set. Surround the turkey with piped-on feathers created with tinted Vanilla Whipped Icing Mix.
In advance, prepare 2-crust piecrust. Place 1 crust in pan. With second crust, cut shapes for body and head using medium and large round cutters.
Step 2
Prepare pie following recipe instructions. Bake pie, body and head pieces. Let pie cool at room temperature and refrigerate overnight.
Step 3
Prepare whipped topping and divide in 5ths. Tint red, orange, yellow, brown; divide remaining 5th in half; tint 1/2 black and leave remaining half white.
Step 4
Starting at outer edge, pipe 2 rows of tip 366 feathers in red. Add two rows each of tip 366 orange and yellow feathers to cover top of pie.
Step 5
Ice body and head smooth with spatula then position on pie. Pipe tip 21 pull-out stars in brown for wing feathers. Add tip 6 ball eyes and tip 4 dot pupils.
Step 6
Pipe two tip 352 pull-out leaves for beak; add tip 6 outline wattle.
Note: Combine Red-Red and Christmas Red for red shade shown. Combine Brown and Red-Red for brown shade shown.
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Rated 5 out of
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Steeneski from
I did this for Thanksgiving and the kids loved it! They called it the "turkey pie" and wanted more. I was a little hesitant about the icing and the pumpkin pie but it pretty much tasted just like cool-whip. I didn't have an electric mixer though so I was unable to get the frosting stiff enough. My turkey was sort of scary looking But it was still fun to make. I'm determined to make an even better one next year!
Date published: 2011-01-12
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ch62030 from
I used the idea on a cake, rather than a pie. It was fairly easy to do, using tip #21 for the feathers.
