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How to Make a Cheese Ball in Turkey Shape – Perfect Thanksgiving Garnish Idea
The turkey-shaped cheese ball I saw in our local grocery store and love the idea to decorate how we can decorate a Thanksgiving cheese board! So easy to make, every ingredient they use to garnish the cheese balls goes great with most cheese balls. On the cheese platter, they used store-made precut cheese and the store made a cheese ball. As you can see, the store-made cheese platter is so attractive and an eye-catching simple appetizer because of the middle turkey-shaped cheese ball. So clever and easy idea of how to garnish a cheese ball for Thanksgiving. We can use also instead of crackers different ingredients and I am sharing 6 more options to make a tail. Each idea has a photo.
The creative way to make edible Thanksgiving table decorations! I make my Thanksgiving cheese tray slightly different. I used a store-bought cheese ball but cheese cut myself by using a simple garnish tool – a crinkle cutter.
If you looking for your Thanksgiving cheese tray fresh ideas, check out cheese Tete De Moine. This cheese is so fancy and served in a very unusual way for cheese. Tete De Moine serves in rosettes. This fancy cheese is a really great addition to any Holiday fancy cheese tray or platter.
Read more → 7 Tips How To Serve Tete De Moine Cheese
Ingredients We Need
- Cheese ball
- Round shaped crakers
- Pecan
- Almond slices
- Red pepper
*Make sure you choose the right shape pepper. The pepper should have a stem located deep enough, so you can able create a nice hook-like cut.
The Garnish Technique
- Cut from red pepper hook-like piece. It will be our future turkey head and neck.
Make sure you choose the right sweet pepper when shop at the grocery store, so you can use it easy to make the hook.
2. To make the tail, I used rice crackers, pecan, and slices of almond.
3. Many ways how to make Thanksgiving cheese platter! I am going to cut cheese with a crinkle cutter. The shape of cheese looks great to serve for any Holiday cheese platter.
Crickle cutter also call french fries cutter. I love this simple garnish tool. Read more about → 11 Ideas How To Use A Crinkle Cutter To Garnish Food
Crickle cutter also call french fries cutter. I love this simple garnish tool. Read more about → 
Easy and fun decor for the Thanksgiving cheese ball tray platter idea!
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1. Cheese Ball Turkey With The Tail Made Out Of Cheese
In the photo above, I used to make the tail for my turkey cheese instead of crackers. To make the neck and the head, I used an orange bell pepper. I added 2 pecan wings on the sides. Very important to choose a cheese thick enough so the feathers stay vertically easily. I tried to use sandwich precut cheese and it didn’t work for me because of the thickness of the cheese.
To make my Thanksgiving cheese ball decor, I cut primitive style the feathers from the cheese and it looks cute. If you are an artistic person, you can make fantasy fly. I like easy garnish ideas.
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The oval shapes on the top of the feathers, I made with simple handmade garnish tool. I banded it and make cuts. The lines I cut with paring knife.
Read how to make the garnish tool → Kitchen Hack How to Make Easy Handmade Garnish Tool
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2. Cheese Ball Turkey With The Tail From Pretzels
Another idea to make the tail for the turkey is pretzels. As you can see the turkey looks cute and impressive with this tail on the cheese and cracker tray.
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3. Cheese Ball Turkey With The Tail Made Out of Carrot
This turkey cheese ball I garnished with feathers made out of carrot. So bright and healthy to make a tail for the turkey cheese ball. Great garnish for a Thanksgiving cheese board! If you are interested in how I make designs on the feather out of carrot, check out the carrot garnish page, the link below.
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4. Cheese Ball Turkey With The Tail Made Out Of Bacon Chips
The tail from bacon for the turkey is tasty and fun to garnish cheese balls. Another great idea for Thanksgiving cheese board decor. Bacon chips are fragile and make a few more than you need for turkey tail, so you have a few extra. Broken bacon chips we can keep for salad or other purposes. The technique of how to make bacon chips in the microwave takes 2 minutes. Of course, time depends on your microwave and the thickness of the bacon. I used thick bacon strips.
*We can make the turkey tail prettier as one piece. Just shape the tail before baking it. However, I like separate bacon strips because easy to take one by one and enjoy for guests.
How To Make Bacon Chips In Microwave
1. I place bacon strips between 2 layers of paper towel and cover with a plastic lid. The plastic lid I used to keep the top layer of paper towel in place. Cook bacon for 1 minute.
*The best taste is fried in a skillet. I have compared the taste of oven, microwave, and skillet bacon for my family. We all agree that skillet bacon has the best taste.
2. I changed the paper towel after 1 minute and cook 1 minute more.
3. Wipe off fat from the bacon strips with a paper towel and let the bacon cool off. Bacon will be soft after we took it out. After bacon cools off we have perfect and crispy bacon chips to decorate the cheese ball.
5. Cheese Ball Turkey With The Tail Made Out of Bell Pepper
Turkey shaped cheese ball is so cute if we make the tail from bell pepper. I just cut orange bell pepper in oval shape and make a tail out of them. Turkey so cute but next time I make the tail little longer for more realistic effect.
6. Cheese Ball Turkey With The Tail Made Out of Celery Stalk
The tail on the photo above for turkey I made out of celery. So cute and easy to make the garnish. The very healthy tail choice to add to the cheese platter.
Check the technique how to make the feather out of celery → 5 Easy Celery Garnish Ideas With Photos
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