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These Easy Thanksgiving Turkey Appetizers are the cutest little canapés for your festive gatherings.

A hand holds a round croustade topped with garlic cream cheese, candy eyes, an orange carrot beak, red pepper wattle, and curved carrot strips arranged like turkey feathers.

To make them, all you need is storebought croustades (or crackers), your favorite herby cream cheese, and carrots. Use red pepper for the wattle and candy eyes to bring them to life.

Wow your friends and family and serve the charming croustades on a cheese platter with with a glass of bubbly. Feel to double the quantities as necessary.

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Easy Thanksgiving Turkey Appetizers Recipe

More Thanksgiving Appetizers

Recipe Tip

Swap candy eyes for black sesame seeds or capers for an all-around savory bite.

Servings: croustades

Easy Thanksgiving Turkey Appetizers

Charming and festive Thanksgiving bites featuring garlic cream cheese and fun carrot turkeys.

Prep: 25

Cook: 0

Total: 25

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Equipment

peeler

Ingredients

Instructions

Peel and discard the outer layer of a carrot.
Continue peeling into equally long pieces.
Trim each strip of carrot so it is straight. You will need three strips of carrot for each turkey.
Fill the croustades to one side with garlic cream cheese.
Fold three strips over themselves and place them next to each other in the croustade on the side with cream cheese. This will ensure they stay in place.
Cover the remaining croustade with cream cheese.
Make the turkey’s beak by trimming a rectangle out of carrot.
Use red pepper to cut a long wattle (the red part next to the beak).
Top with candy eyes, the beak, and the wattle.

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Notes

If you prefer not to use candy eyes, you can replace with sesame seeds or tiny round pieces of cucumber peel.

Nutrition

Calories: 282kcal, Carbohydrates: 24g, Protein: 4g, Fat: 19g, Saturated Fat: 5g, Polyunsaturated Fat: 2g, Monounsaturated Fat: 10g, Cholesterol: 3mg, Sodium: 151mg, Potassium: 120mg, Fiber: 2g, Sugar: 2g, Vitamin A: 3488IU, Vitamin C: 23mg, Calcium: 17mg, Iron: 1mg

Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.

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