It is established that between the both of us, Van likes to cook. I cook too, but I prefer to bake and decorate food for presentation more than anything. One of the traditions I maintain annually is to make a turkey-looking item.  My mom usually comes home with a cutout from a food magazine of something edible & cute for me to recreate. Thanksgiving 2007 she found a cake idea for my project. This was basically a poundcake (two separately carved spheres – one for the body, one for the head) covered in chocolate frosting, decorated with colored Nila wafer feathers and candy corn multiple roped beard (I tried to make him a prize turkey!). The beak & snood are Jelly Tots (reshapen) and the feet are Swedish fish.

Maybe you call them something different, but this candy (Jelly Tots) is what I used for the beak and snood.

Swedish fish used for the feet

This was one of my favorite projects. It is something I look forward to doing every year. The other side project that I love doing , with my sister, which is creative and sounds deceivingly edible, is constructing no-bake diaper cakes! I’ll have to save that for another post though… but feel free to let me know if you’d like to see some of the stuff we’ve done.