Create this cute Turkey Snack Appetizer for Thanksgiving Dinner. Whether your family munches before the big meal or throughout the day, this appetizer will certainly please every palate. Grab a cheese board, grapes, dried fruit, chocolate, crackers, cheese, cookie cutters, and a pear to create a festive turkey snack appetizer.
Whether hosting Thanksgiving or asked to take a dish, this appetizer is simple and easy to make. Begin this assembly by cutting some toothpicks in half to attach food items to the “turkey” pear body. Leave 5-7 toothpicks long for stacking the grapes for tail feathers. Be sure to let guests know that toothpicks are in the turkey body.
How to Make the Turkey Snack Appetizer| Turkey Face
Serve this appetizer on a wooden cheese board or pretty tray. Position the pear in the center of the board cut side down and stem facing you. Begin to assemble turkey with making the face. One large grape is the right proportion for the turkey head. The eyes are small rounds of cut out cheese and snood of turkey, that is to say, the flap that is over the beak is made of cheese. With the short cut toothpicks attach the cheeses to the grape head. Attach the head to the stem end of the halved pear. See photo for more details.
How to Make the Turkey Snack Appetizer | Grape Turkey Tail
Seedless grapes are picked on frilly long toothpicks with the frilly part removed. Grapes are stacked and inserted into the widest end of pear half. Cutting the pear in half length-wise with help with weight distribution of grape tail feathers.
How to Make the Turkey Snack Appetizer | Grape Turkey Face
To make the turkey face, small round cheese cut outs were tooth picked to the grape head with the snood attached underneath. Leaving a little bit of toothpick exposed created the center of the eyes. But, a black olive would be a great addition for eyes instead of cheese. As you can see the head is attached to the pear with a toothpick.
How to Make the Turkey Snack Appetizer | Turkey Feathers
To make turkey feathers mini leaf cookie cutters were used to cut out the shapes from cheese slices. Some were put on toothpicks to resemble tail feathers. The remaining cheese leaves were arranged around the base of the turkey body.
How to Make the Turkey Snack Appetizer | Crackers & More
In conclusion, layer two kinds of crackers around the tail feathers. Around the turkey body almonds, cheese leaves, and dried apricots were layered to create a rounded body as well as to fill in empty spaces. Chocolate covered almonds were placed on both sides of the turkey in the back, but really where ever you want to put them.
Happy Thanksgiving!
Turkey Snack Appetizer
Create a festive snack board that looks like a turkey using fruit and cheese. Great for Thanksgiving or any fall appetizer. Everyone will love your creativity.
- Prep Time: 30 minutes
- Cook Time: none
- Total Time: 60 minutes
- Yield: 8–10 servings 1x
- Category: Appetizer
- Method: Arrange decorate
- Cuisine: American
Ingredients
1 large red d’Anjou or red bartlet pear
25 large seedless green grapes- tail feathers
25 frilly long toothpicks with the frilly part removed
1– medium can whole and pitted black olives
12–14 -1/8″ slices of colby jack cheese or cheese of choice
1–2 cups Whole almonds or nut of choice
Dried apricots or other dried fruit your family likes to fill in the board
Assorted Crackers
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Instructions
1.Cut pear in half vertically and placed on flat work surface or serving platter. Insert 5 frilly or long toothpicks to the widest end of pear, but remove the frills from the toothpicks. Thread two grapes then one black olive on to each toothpick. Repeat for a second row to make the tail feathers. Fill in back of turkey with olives or grapes.
Make turkey face
2.Cut small round cheese cut outs then with tooth pick attach to one grape “head”. Leave a little bit of toothpick exposed to create the center of the eyes. One large grape makes a great head. Cut a small piece of cheese for the gobbler. see photo.
Making Turkey Feathers
3. Cut out leaf shaped cheese and weave gently with a toothpick to attach to the pear and around the board.
4. Fill in the rest of the board with crackers, additional cheese slices, grapes, almonds, dried apricots or whatever you would like.
Seedless grapes are picked on frilly long toothpicks with the frilly part removed. Grapes are stacked and inserted into the widest end of pear half. Cutting the pear in half length-wise with help with weight distribution of grape tail feathers.
Notes
Be creative, this is just an example of what you can do.
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