Gobble it up

It's turkey time. I was looking for a kid-friendly treat for my son's class's Thanksgiving Feast that stayed in the theme of pumpkin pie but still appealed to 12 five-year-old boys. So I came up with "Pumpkin Turkey Balls". We had them last night for dessert and they were good. Both of my kids ate them.

Pumpkin Turkey Balls

Ingredients:
1 can pumpkin purée
1 box yellow cake mix
1 tub cream cheese icing
White chocolate bark coating
Candy corn
Black icing (for eyes)

The cake:
Mix can of pumpkin with cake mix (no other ingredients - just the powder). Mix with an electric mixer and it will be thick. Bake at 350 for 20-25 minutes. That's all!

Allow cake to fully cool before next step.


The Balls:

Crumble cake into crumbs.
Soften container of icing in microwave for 10-20 seconds. Add 1/2 of container to crumbs.

Mix with hands until all of cake crumbs are moist. (Add more icing if needed)

Form into balls (mine are like the size of ping pong balls)

Chill in fridge until firm.

The Turkey:

Dip in melted bark coating and set on wax paper to cool.

Cut candy corns for beak. Use melted bark coating to attach candy corns. Use icing to make eyes.

I was able to yield 36 with this recipe.

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