Hazelnut Chocolate Turkeys

Makes 12 Turkeys

*1 box (5.3 ounce) Ferrero Rocher Fine Hazelnut Chocolates, with wrappers on

*Hot Glue Gun, preferably low temp and glue sticks

*Scissors

*Wire Cutter, preferred

*Ruler

*3 Red Pipe Cleaners, preferably thin, cut into 1 and 1/4 inch, wattle

*4 Brown Pipe Cleaner, cut into 4th’s for head and neck

*2 Brown Pipe Cleaner, cut into 1 and 1/4 inches, tie for turkey tail

*24 (7 m/m) Googly/Wiggle Eyes

*1 square Beige Felt, beaks, cut into very small triangles, you will only use a small amount of the square

*1 roll (6 inch by 25 yards) like Offray Decorating Tulle Ribbon, cut into 13 inches long 6 inches wide, note you won’t use the whole roll

Turkey Body and Tail

Take each individual hazelnut wrapped chocolate and wrap with the gold tulle, place chocolate in center of the tulle and gatherer up all the sides and twist and add the brown tie around the base of the tail where you twisted the tulle slightly toward the back of the chocolate and add brown tie. Repeat for each turkey

Head

Take each cut brown body pipe cleaner and start at one end and roll down like a snail shape, leaving a little over an inch for the neck. Add eyes to the head, one on each side of the snail shape with hot glue, add the wattle (fold in half the pre-cut length of red pipe cleaner and twist ends together and apply the hot glue to the cut ends and attach to the top of the neck. Then hot glue on beak just above the wattle on the front of the edge of the head. Then hot glue the finished head onto the chocolate at the base, gluing the bottom of the neck onto the chocolate, opposite side of the tulle tail. Repeat for each turkey.

 

Enjoy!

Lindy