No Bake Turkey Wafer Cookies

Gobble Gobble! These turkey wafer cookies are a fun no bake Thanksgiving treat that kids will go nuts for. A vanilla wafer dipped in chocolate and decorated with candy corn, M&M’s and candy eyes. Try these turkey cookies with candy corn today!

This is an easy recipe that little kids love to help decorate their turkeys. The candy corn feathers are so fun, and good for the holiday season. Make sure to check out our turkey donuts for another cute idea. Also try these Lofthouse sugar cookie pops.

These Turkey Wafer Cookies Are…

• Great for the Thanksgiving Table
• No Bake Thanksgiving Turkey Cookies
• Chocolate wafer cookies or dipped vanilla crisp wafers cookies work
• Kid friendly
• Easy to Make
• Fall Treat

Try our fall sugar cookies that are pumpkin spice flavored and shaped like pumpkins.

Ingredients Needed For Recipe

Vanilla Wafers – Buy vanilla wafers or any flavor of wafers you want. You will dip them in chocolate so feel free to use any flavor.

Candy Melts – Dip your wafers in the chocolate and then use the chocolate to glue the candy corn and M&M’s onto the wafers as well.

Candy Corn – The candy corn mimics the turkey’s feathers. It is fun and easy, and feel free to buy different colored candy corn to use if you want.

Yellow M&M’s – Yellow or orange M&M’s that get broken in half are going to be great for making the beak of the turkey.

Candy Eyes – Find candy eyes in the baking aisle next to sprinkles. Or ship to home directly from Amazon.

How to Make

Full steps on how to make these turkey wafer cookies are in the printable recipe card at the bottom of the post. This is a visual walk through, but the full directions are at the bottom of the post.

Step One: Place a strip of parchment paper on a tray or the counter. Then you will heat up your candy melts in the microwave until it is fully melted.

Step Two: Dip a vanilla wafer cookie in the chocolate, coating it all. Then tap off the excess chocolate and place the wafers on the parchment paper.

Step Three: While the chocolate is still wet, place on the M&M nose, and two eyes right above it. Then place your candy corn in a rainbow shape to mimic feathers.

Step Four: The repeat dipping the cookie and decorating one at a time.

Helpful Tip: If the candy melts are setting up, just warm it up again in the microwave.

Storing

So if you don’t eat the turkey treats right away, just allow them to fully set up. Then place the turkey treats in an airtight container and store at room temperature. The cookies will store for 2 weeks or so. Now if your house is pretty warm, you can refrigerate to prevent the chocolate from melting.

Variations and Tips

• You can use white chocolate, milk chocolate, or even semi-sweet chocolate for dipping. We do like candy melting wafers as it hardens well. Or just add coconut oil to the chocolate chips to help the chocolate set up.
• We like to line a cookie sheet or baking sheet with wax paper so we can move the cookies around the kitchen easy.
• Swap out the wafers with other cookies or treats if you want to change it up a bit.

Practical notes

What can we use instead of M&M for the nose?

Go right ahead and pipe on the nose with frosting, use a Skittles, or any other candy that is shaped to look like a nose. Feel free to be creative.

Does this recipe double well?

Of course. Make as many or as few of the turkey cookies as you would like. This is a easy and Thanksgiving no bake treat for kids and adults.

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Ingredients

Makes 12 servings

• 12 Vanilla Wafer Cookies
• 3-4 cups Chocolate Melting Wafers
• 1 bag Candy Corn
• 12 Yellow M&M's
• 24 Candy Eyes

Method

1. Start by melting your candy melts in the microwave or in a double boiler on the stovetop. Follow the directions on the back of the box.
2. Next you will dip each vanilla wafer in the melted chocolate. Then tap off the excess and place on a wax paper lined tray. Do one cookie at a time.
3. Add on the candy corn at the top of the cookie. This will mimic the feathers, we shaped into a rainbow shape.
4. Then Add on the candy eyes in the center of the cookie, followed by the nose.
5. Next repeat dipping the next cookie, decorating, etc. Repeat until all the cookies are done.

Kitchen notes

Cookies –

You can use any flavor of wafer cookies to make the turkeys. Chocolate – If you want you can use chocolate chips with a tablespoon of coconut oil to help the chocolate set up.