Nutter Butter Turkey Cookies

Why You’ll Love It

So quick and easy: Forget about having to bake cookies from scratch. With this recipe, you start off with Nutter Butter cookies and add the decorations yourself to convert them into cute Thanksgiving turkeys.
They taste great: If you’re a fan of Nutter Butter cookies, you’re going to really love these peanut butter turkey cookies.
Use up your Halloween candy: Still got candy corn left over from Halloween? Repurpose it to make these Nutter Butter cookies!

Nutter Butter Turkey Ingredients

A complete list of ingredients and amounts can be found in the recipe card below.

Nutter Butter cookies: You need the round ones for the turkey heads and the peanut-shaped ones for the turkey bodies.
Candy eyeballs: So your turkeys can see, of course!
Chocolate candy melts: To stick on the eyes, beak and so on.
Reese’s pieces: For the beak.
Red cookie icing: For the snood/wattle.
Candy corn: These are for the feathers.

How to Make Nutter Butter Thanksgiving Turkeys

For more detailed instructions with weights and measurements, jump to the printable recipe card.

Make the cookie turkeys: Melt the candy wafers and use them to stick a round Nutter Butter turkey cookie to each peanut-shaped one.
Decorate them: Use more melted candy wafers to stick the candy corn on (for the turkey feathers), the candy eyes and the Reece’s Pieces for the beaks. Pipe on some red icing for the gobbler, snood or wattle (whatever you call that bit!)
Let them set: Leave the Nutter Butter turkey cookies to set and then serve.

Substitutions and Variations

Different cookies: You can use any kind of cookies you want, although Nutter Butters are the perfect shape for the turkey bodies. Golden Oreos or regular Oreos would also work.
Another candy: Swap the orange Reese’s Pieces for orange M&Ms or another kind of candy. Swap the white candy melts for white chocolate chips or another color of candy melts. You can use chocolate candy corn candies for the beaks (just the orange part) instead of the orange candies.
Red cookie icing: Use melted red candy wafers or red frosting instead.

Serving Suggestions

Appetizers: Serve up a garlic herb bread wreath to start.
Main course: Holiday beef Wellington or smoked turkey breast is perfect for a Thanksgiving meal.
On the side: You can’t go wrong with sweet potatoes with candied maple pecans and gouda cream cheese corn.
Dessert: These Nutter Butter turkey cookies make a great dessert.

How to Store Nutter Butter Turkey Treats

Store: Keep leftover turkey treats in an airtight container at room temperature for a couple of weeks or in the refrigerator for up to a month.
Freeze: Don’t freeze this fun Thanksgiving treat because the decorations will fall off and the candy corn will get too hard.