TikTok’s Chocolate-Covered Strawberry Turkeys Are Turning Heads
Arina P Habich/Shutterstock By Ralph Schwartz/Nov. 19, 2021 1:54 pm EST
If you’re looking to liven up your holiday party spread with a unique finger food, or if you’ve been tapped to bring a dessert to a Thanksgiving potluck, then TikTok has you covered. This particular TikTok trend is a year old at least, but it’s viral again just before Thanksgiving 2021: the chocolate-covered strawberry turkey.
These turkeys may have breast and drumsticks, but they have no white meat and no dark meat. They’re a clever way to create a more or less accurate turkey shape with a few basic snack items. You’ll need strawberries, mini marshmallows, pretzel sticks, and melted chocolate. (None of these come to mind as Thanksgiving menu items … unless you’re Charlie Brown, of course.) The most-liked strawberry turkey video on TikTok right now (834,200 likes and counting), from @_ellagrace12, demonstrates the most basic version of the chocolate-covered strawberry turkey. Poke the pretzel sticks into the mini marshmallows, use a little melted chocolate to stick your pretzel-and-marshmallow “drumsticks” to each side of a strawberry, then dip the whole thing in chocolate. @_ellagrace12 pulls off the turkey illusion, although the drumsticks look a little too much like drumsticks — as in, those fuzzy mallets marching bands use for bass drums.
Use more marshmallows to make a more realistic chocolate-covered strawberry turkey
TikTok
Other TikTok demonstrations of the chocolate-covered strawberry turkey aim for more realism. As TikToker @doubledippeddesserts showed in November 2020, you can cut a corner off your mini marshmallows to create a taper that enables the marshmallow to attach to the strawberry in a way that looks more natural. To take it even further, you can give your turkey a properly plump breast using a technique demonstrated by @delish on TikTok: Cut another mini marshmallow in half diagonally, and stick each half to either side of the top of your strawberry.
TikToker @doubledippeddesserts gives early credit for the strawberry turkey idea to another TikToker, @chocolatedipsbylisa. Their version uses two marshmallows on each pretzel stick, for a fuller-looking drumstick. Then Lisa gets a little “extra” by painting gold highlighter dust over the chocolate after it dries. You can’t taste a TikTok video, but the verdict in @chocolatedipsbylisa’s comments was fairly unanimous on this holiday finger food’s visual appeal: “This is the cutest idea ever.”
TikTok’s Chocolate-Covered Strawberry Turkeys Are Turning Heads
Arina P Habich/Shutterstock
By Ralph Schwartz/Nov. 19, 2021 1:54 pm EST
If you’re looking to liven up your holiday party spread with a unique finger food, or if you’ve been tapped to bring a dessert to a Thanksgiving potluck, then TikTok has you covered. This particular TikTok trend is a year old at least, but it’s viral again just before Thanksgiving 2021: the chocolate-covered strawberry turkey.
These turkeys may have breast and drumsticks, but they have no white meat and no dark meat. They’re a clever way to create a more or less accurate turkey shape with a few basic snack items. You’ll need strawberries, mini marshmallows, pretzel sticks, and melted chocolate. (None of these come to mind as Thanksgiving menu items … unless you’re Charlie Brown, of course.) The most-liked strawberry turkey video on TikTok right now (834,200 likes and counting), from @_ellagrace12, demonstrates the most basic version of the chocolate-covered strawberry turkey. Poke the pretzel sticks into the mini marshmallows, use a little melted chocolate to stick your pretzel-and-marshmallow “drumsticks” to each side of a strawberry, then dip the whole thing in chocolate. @_ellagrace12 pulls off the turkey illusion, although the drumsticks look a little too much like drumsticks — as in, those fuzzy mallets marching bands use for bass drums.
These turkeys may have breast and drumsticks, but they have no white meat and no dark meat. They’re a clever way to create a more or less accurate turkey shape with a few basic snack items. You’ll need strawberries, mini marshmallows, pretzel sticks, and melted chocolate. (None of these come to mind as Thanksgiving menu items … unless you’re Charlie Brown, of course.)
The most-liked strawberry turkey video on TikTok right now (834,200 likes and counting), from @_ellagrace12, demonstrates the most basic version of the chocolate-covered strawberry turkey. Poke the pretzel sticks into the mini marshmallows, use a little melted chocolate to stick your pretzel-and-marshmallow “drumsticks” to each side of a strawberry, then dip the whole thing in chocolate. @_ellagrace12 pulls off the turkey illusion, although the drumsticks look a little too much like drumsticks — as in, those fuzzy mallets marching bands use for bass drums.
Use more marshmallows to make a more realistic chocolate-covered strawberry turkey
TikTok
Other TikTok demonstrations of the chocolate-covered strawberry turkey aim for more realism. As TikToker @doubledippeddesserts showed in November 2020, you can cut a corner off your mini marshmallows to create a taper that enables the marshmallow to attach to the strawberry in a way that looks more natural. To take it even further, you can give your turkey a properly plump breast using a technique demonstrated by @delish on TikTok: Cut another mini marshmallow in half diagonally, and stick each half to either side of the top of your strawberry.
TikToker @doubledippeddesserts gives early credit for the strawberry turkey idea to another TikToker, @chocolatedipsbylisa. Their version uses two marshmallows on each pretzel stick, for a fuller-looking drumstick. Then Lisa gets a little “extra” by painting gold highlighter dust over the chocolate after it dries. You can’t taste a TikTok video, but the verdict in @chocolatedipsbylisa’s comments was fairly unanimous on this holiday finger food’s visual appeal: “This is the cutest idea ever.”
TikToker @doubledippeddesserts gives early credit for the strawberry turkey idea to another TikToker, @chocolatedipsbylisa. Their version uses two marshmallows on each pretzel stick, for a fuller-looking drumstick. Then Lisa gets a little “extra” by painting gold highlighter dust over the chocolate after it dries.
You can’t taste a TikTok video, but the verdict in @chocolatedipsbylisa’s comments was fairly unanimous on this holiday finger food’s visual appeal: “This is the cutest idea ever.”
