Turkey is custom for Thanksgiving Dinner, however have you ever ever thought-about having it for breakfast? These Cinnamon Roll Turkeys will wow your children!
This model, with out the bacon, is scrumptious, straightforward, and acceptable for all eaters. We’ve even included gluten-free and vegan variations.
Serve Cinnamon Roll Turkeys alongside a hearty Egg Bake with Ham & Spinach to carry everybody over till the large feast later within the day. In the event you make selfmade dough, you’ll be able to even freeze the cinnamon rolls prematurely!
It was 2006. My babes had been 9, 6, 4, 2, and 10 days previous. I used to be into reducing meals into cool shapes and coating it with sprinkles. As one does.
I busted out a can of fridge biscuits and one other of cinnamon rolls and dug a couple of jars of sparkly sugar from the pantry. A bit creativity and voila! Cinnamon roll turkeys!
And so it turned a FishFam custom. It actually wouldn’t be Thanksgiving with out them. Even the large boys/faculty males/grown-and-flown grownup kids are fond of those little turkeys.
Why Make These
It’s tremendous enjoyable! Children, younger and previous, have enjoyable adorning their “feathers” and baking up their very own Cinnamon Roll Turkeys. You will get fairly artistic, making for a superb busy exercise for teenagers on Thanksgiving morning.
They’re straightforward. This tutorial will set you up for fast and simple meeting with refrigerated biscuits and cinnamon rolls.
Substances
Right here’s what it is advisable to make Cinnamon Roll Turkeys:
massive fridge cinnamon rolls – This serves because the physique on your Cinnamon Roll Turkeys. You should utilize business rolls, like Pillsbury Grands or see my selfmade variation beneath.
massive fridge biscuits – You may be slicing up the biscuits into wedges for the turkey feathers.
You’ll want 1 unbaked cinnamon roll and 1 ½ massive unbaked refrigerated biscuits for every serving.
sweet eyes, chocolate chips, nuts, or sweet coated candies – Your Cinnamon Roll Turkeys have to see! Be certain they’ve bought eyes. You should utilize sweet eyes, chocolate chips, nuts, or candy-coated candies.
In 16 years of creating these, I’ve discovered to not use pink hots or dried fruit for the eyes. The pink hots soften and make the turkey appear to be it’s crying; the dried fruit turns into rock arduous after baking.
coloured sprinkles – That is what provides your turkey feathers their shade. You should utilize non-pareils, jimmies, or sanding sugar.
What? No Bacon? No you don’t want bacon in your cinnamon roll. Contemplating how costly bacon is and the truth that children will usually want sprinkles over bacon anyway, that is clearly the way in which to go!
Do-it-yourself Variation
I’m partial to creating selfmade cinnamon rolls for these turkeys, so I freeze my cinnamon rolls and a few additional dough, together with my Thanksgiving Sides, a couple of weeks prematurely to make it straightforward. The night time earlier than Turkey Day, I pull out the rolls and dough to thaw and rise. Within the morning, the children can assemble their Cinnamon Roll Turkeys.
Gluten-free Variation
If you wish to make these gluten-free, selfmade goes to be the way in which to go.
- Do that gluten-free recipe from Lynn’s Kitchen Adventures.
- Make sure that any sprinkles or candies you utilize are gluten-free.
Vegan Variation
To make these vegan, you’ll have to do a pair issues:
- Make a selfmade dough with out eggs and utilizing plant-based milk and butter OR decide up a couple of cans of Immaculate Baking refrigerated rolls and biscuits.
- Make sure that any sprinkles or candies you utilize are vegan. One clue shall be that they use pure cane sugar.
Step-by-Step Directions
Prep step – Because the rolls have to unfold out as they bake, you’ll want a number of baking sheets. Line the baking sheets with parchment paper so that you don’t have to scrub the pans.
Utilizing parchment paper to assemble your turkeys will even make it simpler to switch them on and off the pan, particularly for those who’re reusing the pan for a number of batches.
The cinnamon roll will function the turkey’s physique. Place this on the ready pan. You’ll seemingly be capable to match two to a few turkeys on every baking sheet.
Slice three biscuits into quarters, 5 biscuits into wedges.
Dip every of the wedges into the coloured sugar. These would be the “turkey feathers”.
Add one quarter biscuit to every cinnamon roll, point-side down for the turkey face.
Minimize 5 of the quarters partially in half once more; these would be the legs. Minimize two slits partially by way of every half of the triangle form so the “claws” unfold out.
Tuck the legs below the underside of the cinnamon roll. You need them to the touch in order that they stick collectively when baking.
(The remaining two quarters biscuits is not going to be used.)
Bake the Cinnamon Roll Turkeys at 350 levels for about 20 minutes. Tent with foil if the faces begin to brown an excessive amount of.
Cool the rolls on a rack.
As soon as cooled, use the frosting that got here with the cinnamon rolls to stick the sweet eyes on the triangle faces. You’ll be able to switch the frosting to a small sandwich bag and minimize off the tip for a makeshift piping bag or just use a toothpick to drop a little bit of frosting onto the turkey face.
Place the sweet eyes into the frosting earlier than it dries.
In the event you aren’t utilizing sweet eyes, you should utilize chocolate chips, nuts, or candy-coated candies. Add these to the triangle faces previous to baking or frost them on on the finish.
FAQs
Lately Pillsbury popularized a model of cinnamon roll turkeys with bacon for the feathers. With the rising worth of bacon, our model with coloured sprinkles is extra enjoyable and frugal!
Cinnamon roll turkeys are finest contemporary from the oven, however for those who’ve bought additional and may’t gobble them down, then by all means freeze them! As soon as they’ve cooled fully, wrap them properly in plastic wrap and place in a ziptop freezer bag within the freezer. To serve, thaw at room temperature within the wrappings.
You’ll be able to, however understand that these turkeys are already fairly hefty and sugar-filled. They’re fairly scrumptious with out frosting.
Recipe Prices
Figuring out how a lot it prices you to organize a recipe can assist you determine if it’s the kind of recipe to make repeatedly or one you would possibly need to save for particular events. Let’s crunch some numbers and see how this recipe pencils out.
- massive cinnamon rolls – $4.12
- biscuits – $1.98
- candies and sprinkles – $0.50
Whereas your prices could differ relying on the place and the way you store, you’ll be able to count on to pay about $6.60 for a batch, about $1.32/serving.
Minimize your prices in half for those who use selfmade cinnamon dough.
Save much more:
To make this recipe extra economical:
- Fill up on components when they’re on sale. Business fridge biscuits usually are not low-cost. Nonetheless, they do go on sale sometimes, and coupons are sometimes obtainable. Mix a sale with a coupon to get an amazing deal.
- Purchase post-holiday clearance objects. Each vacation, it appears, warrants its personal specialised baking components: New Yr’s, Valentine’s, St. Patrick’s, Easter, 4th of July, Halloween, and Christmas. That implies that within the days after these holidays, you could find baking objects, like glowing sugar and sweet sprinkles at a deep low cost. Valentine’s Pink, St Patrick’s inexperienced and Halloween’s orange all work for Thanksgiving turkeys!
- Store on the lowest worth retailer. I’m at the moment utilizing a worth e book to trace costs and that’s saving me cash. In lieu of a sale, I do know what retailer sometimes has the very best worth on fridge biscuits. On this case, that may be ALDI.
- Make selfmade! Do-it-yourself dough will value about ½ what the business doughs value. You pay for the comfort. Scroll down for a few of our favorites!
Do-it-yourself Dough Recipes
Cinnamon Roll Turkeys
Turkey is custom for Thanksgiving Dinner, however have you ever ever thought-about having it for breakfast? These Cinnamon Roll Turkeys will wow your children!
Servings: 5
Energy: 692kcal
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Directions
Line two baking sheets with parchment paper. Preheat the oven to 350 levels.
The cinnamon rolls will function the turkeys’ our bodies. Place these on the ready baking sheets. The completed turkey cinnamon rolls shall be fairly massive. You’ll seemingly solely be capable to match two to a few turkeys on every baking sheet.
Minimize every of 5 biscuits into 5 slices or “feathers” and dip the feathers into coloured sugar or sprinkles. Tuck these below the highest of the cinnamon roll.
Minimize three of the biscuits into quarters. Place one quarter in the course of every cinnamon roll with the purpose pointing down. These are the turkey “faces”.
Minimize 5 of the quarters partially in half once more; these would be the legs. Minimize two slits partially by way of every half of the triangle form so the claws unfold out. Tuck the legs below the underside of the cinnamon roll. You need them to the touch in order that they stick collectively when baking. (The remaining two quarters biscuits is not going to be used.)
Bake the Cinnamon Roll Turkeys 20 to 25 minutes. Cool on a rack.
As soon as cooled, use the frosting that got here with the cinnamon rolls to stick the sweet eyes on the triangle faces. You’ll be able to switch the frosting to a small sandwich bag and minimize off the tip for a makeshift piping bag or just use a toothpick to drop a little bit of frosting onto the turkey face. (See be aware beneath if utilizing another ingredient for the eyes.)
Notes
- Do that gluten-free cinnamon roll recipe from Lynn’s Kitchen Adventures.
- Make sure that any sprinkles or candies you utilize are gluten-free.
- Make a selfmade dough with out eggs and utilizing plant-based milk and butter OR decide up a couple of cans of Immaculate Baking refrigerated rolls and biscuits.
- Make sure that any sprinkles or candies you utilize are vegan. One clue shall be that they use pure cane sugar.
Vitamin
Energy: 692kcal | Carbohydrates: 96g | Protein: 10g | Fats: 31g | Saturated Fats: 9g | Polyunsaturated Fats: 6g | Monounsaturated Fats: 6g | Trans Fats: 1g | Ldl cholesterol: 1mg | Sodium: 1584mg | Potassium: 207mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 26g | Vitamin A: 6IU | Vitamin C: 1mg | Calcium: 48mg | Iron: 5mg
This put up was initially revealed on November 9, 2009. It has been up to date for content material and readability.
