Chocolate Covered Strawberry Turkeys
Nov 16, 2022, Updated Mar 30, 2023
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Grab the family and let everyone create their very own Chocolate Covered Strawberry Turkeys. Your guests will be pleasantly surprised to find a strawberry inside this adorable mini turkey replicas!
Be sure to check out our Turkey Animal Pears as well. We love creating food art for all of our Holiday gatherings!
Impress your Thanksgiving guests with these super cute chocolate covered strawberry turkeys. They take a little time and patience, but they are totally worth it!
Who doesn’t love chocolate covered strawberries? However, these turkey look alikes are ALMOST too cute to gobble up!
How to Store Strawberry Turkeys
These turkeys can be made a few days ahead of time. Simply place them in an air tight container for 3-4 days. For optimal freshness, keep them in the refrigerator.
Ingredients for Chocolate Covered Strawberry Turkeys
- Strawberries
- Pretzel Sticks
- Chocolate or Almond Bark
- Marshmallows
- White Chocolate
How to Make Chocolate Covered Strawberry Turkeys
Rinse and pat your strawberries, dry, and set aside.
First, break about 1/4th off the top of the pretzel sticks. You will use the piece that is about 3/4″ length because otherwise, the pretzel sticks are too long.
Next, cut your mini marshmallows diagonally. There will be two insides of the marshmallows that are sticky.
Then, stick the cut side of the marshmallow to the top pretzel stick (make sure you use the broken end to adhere the marshmallow to so that when the feet stick out they are rounded and not jagged).
Place your almond bark or chocolate into a deep, microwave safe bowl. Heat for 30 seconds, stir, and continue heating for 15 second intervals, stirring in between until your almond bark or chocolate is fully melted.
Next, dip the top of the pretzel stick with the marshmallow lightly into the melted chocolate bark.
Stick the pretzel/marshmallow leg to the right side of your strawberry. Hold it there for about 30 seconds until it adheres. Repeat with the left side!
Next, place the strawberry with legs attached on a baking sheet lined with parchment or wax paper, then repeat the process with all your strawberries (each will cook and harden as you continue to work).
Once the strawberry turkey legs are set, poke a fork into the top of the strawberry then dip the whole strawberry, up to the stem in chocolate, shake off excess chocolate, and place back on parchment paper.
Produce Moms Tip: It’s helpful to thin out the chocolate with oil, then you will be less likely to lose a leg!
Then, repeat this for all your strawberry turkeys, then place your baking sheet into the fridge for 10 minutes to harden the chocolate.
While those are cooling, melt the white chocolate the same way as before.
Then, remove the baking sheet from the fridge.
Finally, pick up the strawberries and lightly dip the bottoms of each leg into the white chocolate park to make the turkey’s feet. You can use a spoon to help if the legs are too close to the body.
Return each one to the baking sheet and then back to the fridge until set.
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- How to Make Pumpkin Puree in the Oven and the Instant Pot
- Creamy Pumpkin Soup
- Roasted Pumpkin Seeds
- Stuffing Muffins
- Caramel Apples
- Twice Baked Potato Casserole
- Fresh Green Bean Casserole
- Cranberry, Blueberry and Strawberry Sauce
- Air Fryer Cinnamon and Brown Sugar Carrots
- Blistered Green Beans with Fried Shallots
- Made from Scratch Apple Pie
- Pumpkin Pie Jello Shots
- Cranberry Mimosa
- Roasted Yams
- Glazed Sweet Potatoes
Chocolate Covered Strawberry Turkeys
Ingredients
- 12 oz. Chocolate Almond Bark
- 6 oz. Almond Bark
- 8 Large Strawberries
- 16 Pretzel Sticks
- 8 Mini Marshmallows
Instructions
- Rinse and pat your Strawberries dry and set aside.
- Break about 1/4th of the top of the pretzel sticks off…you will use the piece that is about 3/4″ length because otherwise, the pretzel sticks are too long.
- Cut your mini marshmallows diagonally. There will be two insides of the marshmallows that are sticky.
- Stick the cut side of the marshmallow to the top pretzel stick (make sure you use the broken end to adhere the marshmallow to so that when the feet stick out they are rounded and not jagged).
- Place your almond bark into a deep, microwave safe bowl. Heat for 30 seconds, then stir and continue heating for 15 seconds each time, stirring in between until your chocolate is fully melted.
- Dip the top of the pretzel stick with the marshmallow lightly into the melted chocolate bark.
- Stick the pretzel/marshmallow leg to the right side of your strawberry and hold it there for about 30 second until it adheres. Repeat with the left side!
- Place your strawberry with legs attached on a baking sheet lined with parchment or wax paper, then repeat the process with all your strawberries. (each will cook and harden as you continue to work).
- Once the strawberry turkey legs are set, poke a fork into the top of the strawberry then dip the whole strawberry, up to the stem in chocolate, shake off excess and place back on parchment paper. **It’s helpful to thin out the chocolate with oil, then you will be less likely to lose a leg!
- Repeat this for all your strawberry turkeys, then place your baking sheet into the fridge for 10 minutes to harden the chocolate.
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
