Thanksgiving food ideas are all about giving thanks and family. What better way to celebrate it, than to have some quality family time together, while preparing some fun food and sharing it later on, drinking a cup of hot chocolate or tea? The Thanksgiving recipes are endless. Below you can view a few Thanksgiving Food Ideas we know you will love!

Thanksgiving Food Ideas for Family Fun

Thanksgiving Food Ideas – Festive Cookies:

Who doesn’t love cookies? Decorating them is just as fun as they are yummy. Use your favorite cookie recipe and some fall or Thanksgiving cookie cutters and decorate them with autumn color’s icings or sugar paste. Pillsbury as some cute turkey cookies treats to try here.

Turkey Cookie Treats

These are yummy and so easy to make. Just take your favorite round cookies, frost them with chocolate frosting and decorate with yellow icing, candy corn, candy sprinkles, candy-coated chocolate bits, black decorating gel and whatever else you can think of.

Thanksgiving Dessert Recipe: Turkey Cupcakes:

Everyone knows that cupcakes are fun all by themselves. But what makes them even better, is icing them and decorating them. Try decorating with this cute Thanksgiving turkey cupcakes recipe. With some chocolate frosting and decorations made of marzipan or sugar paste, you can create those cute little cupcake turkeys.

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Thanksgiving food ideas: Sweet Scarecrows:

They don’t seem that scary, do they? They are easy to make, too. You just need round cookies, white frosting, sugar wafers, candy corn and for the finer decorations some mini chocolate chips, bran cereal for the hair, chocolate sprinkles and whatever you think that will make these guys cuter. To stick the hat to the head ,use the white frosting.

Thanksgiving Dessert: Chocolate Cookie Turkey:

Those cute turkeys are quite simple to make, but patience is needed for them to dry. You will need chocolate vanilla crème cookies, candy corn, peanut butter cups – which must be cut on the one end so they are leveled – chocolate frosting, yellow and red frosting, whoppers  and some sprinkles for the eyes. To stick the candy corn, the peanut butter cups, the whoopers and the cookies to each other, you will need to use the chocolate frosting as glue. The turkey’s nose is made of the cut tip of a candy corn.

Thanksgiving Snack Recipe Ideas:

Need Thanksgiving appetizer and snack ideas?  To make them, you will need some cocktail pumpernickel bread and cream cheese. For the decoration you can use peas, red, green and yellow pepper, cheese, cashewnuts, almonds, parsley and all the things you can think of, that can make them yummy looking. We also love these 109 Thanksgiving appetizer recipes from Delish.com

Either sweet or savory, healthy or just a treat, creating Thanksgiving snacks and sweets is a joyful act, especially if they are made in a cheerful atmosphere with loving people all around.

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