What Shall We Bake Today?

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This month we focus on cute Thanksgiving or turkey-oriented cookies and desserts! We start off with turkey cookies!

Ingredients

1 cup semisweet chocolate chips

30 candy corn candies, plus 6 white tips of candy corn

6 chocolate sandwich cookies

6 mini peanut butter cups

6 malt balls

1 cup Red Frosting, recipe follows

6 chocolate sandwich cookies with top cookies removed

Red Frosting:

1/2 stick (1/4 cup) unsalted butter, at room temperature

1 1/2 cups powdered sugar

1/2 teaspoon pure vanilla extract

2 tablespoons whole milk

Red food coloring, as needed

Directions

Place the chocolate chips in a medium stainless steel or glass bowl. Set the bowl over a saucepan of barely simmering water. Cook, stirring occasionally, until the chocolate has melted, about 4 minutes. Set aside to cool slightly.

For each turkey, push 5 candy corn candies, tip-side down, into the cream filling of a chocolate sandwich cookie to make the feathers for the turkey. Lay the cookie on a work surface.

Dip the flat, larger end of a peanut butter cup in the melted chocolate allowing any excess chocolate to drip back into the bowl. Place the peanut butter cup, chocolate-dipped end down, onto the sandwich cookie.

Dip a malt ball into the melted chocolate allowing any excess chocolate to drip back into the bowl. Place the malt ball above the peanut butter cup to make the head of the turkey.

Dip the flat end of the white candy corn tip in the chocolate. Place on the malt ball, to make the turkey beak. Refrigerate until the chocolate has set, about 10 minutes.

Place the Red Frosting in a piping bag. Using scissors, cut a small opening in the end of the piping bag. Pipe a small piece of frosting under the malt ball to make the turkey’s beard.

Place a cookie (with top half removed) on a platter. Stand the turkey upright into the cream filling. Repeat with the remaining ingredients.

Red Frosting:

In a medium bowl, using an electric hand mixer, beat the butter until smooth, about 20 seconds. Add the powdered sugar, vanilla extract and milk. Beat on low speed until combined. Increase the speed to high and beat until the mixture is smooth. Color the frosting by mixing in 1 drop of red food coloring at a time until the desired color is reached.

ENJOY!

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62 thoughts on “What Shall We Bake Today?”

  1. Morning All!

    the wind has died down finally!!!

    we did lose power–about four hours again–AND hubby went looking for wires down and it was the SAME spot as the last 2 times! he said there’s a lotta dead ash trees –not under the lines–but within 50 ft of them…so when they fall, they take the lines down with them. 3 trees were down laying on those lines.

    an amazing thing though yesterday…normally when i’m at my laptop at the table my back is towards the pond. (I can see the pink oriole nest in front of me.) without power, i decided to read a book and was sitting in my chair in the living room. A fierce wind blew and made me look up and towards the pond and a bright flash of something caught my eye. ANOTHER bright pink oriole nest!!!! a lot of leaves have come off the aspens by the pond and i could see it clinging to the branch. it looked safe and snug there too! Next season, I’m gonna try different colored yarn and see if they both take it again.

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    1. Good morning! They should put those lines underground! As long as the yarn is a bright color, they should be attracted to it. Nipply this morning but it’s above freezing at least – I’ve put the tuna out w/the light on – hopefully Wheezer will show up.

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      1. Good Morning Filly!
        you would think they would. When we were putting our electric in we were required (although we would have anyway) to put the lines underground because of all the trees.
        The second nest was just a nice surprise!
        I hope Wheezer shows up!

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  6. Andrew Kolvet
    @AndrewKolvet
    Elon Musk just left Joe Rogan absolutely STUNNED after explaining the real reason Dems refuse to open the government:

    MUSK: The reason you have this standoff is because if the $ hundreds of billions to create a financial incentive to have this giant magnet to attract illegals from every part of Earth to these states, if that is turned off the illegals will leave because they’re no longer being paid to come to the U.S. and stay here.

    ROGAN:🤯

    MUSK: Then the Democrat Party will lose a lot of voters.

    Bingo, Elon.

    The Democrat Party cares about unfettered immigration to America more than any other issue because they want to import voters and dilute America’s traditional capitalistic European heritage.

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  11. Just The News: “A federal judge in Washington, D.C., on Friday blocked a part of one of President Donald Trump’s executive orders that required voters to show proof of citizenship through passports or other documents before voting.

    The ruling comes in response to a controversial March executive order that intended to overhaul federal elections. Multiple lawsuits have been filed to block different aspects of the order, including a part that bars states from counting mail-in ballots received after Election Day.

    U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly declined to block the part related to counting the mail-in ballots, but did permanently block the proof of citizenship aspect, which was brought by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).

    The judge ruled that the portion was illegal because the U.S. Constitution gives states, not the president, the power to oversee elections, according to Reuters.

    “While we celebrate this victory, we remain vigilant and will keep fighting to ensure every eligible voter can make their voice heard without interference or intimidation,” ACLU’s Sophia Lin Lakin said. “No president can sidestep the Constitution to make it harder to vote.”

    The White House and Trump have not yet commented on the ruling.”

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    1. while that’s true, the federal gov’t determines who can vote in FEDERAL elections…and they can determine what’s acceptable to register for those. this is gonna be a fight for SCOTUS.

      this judicial branch is thoroughly out of control.

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  14. free speech?

    FTA

    “Mayor Mamdani, will you welcome Prime Minister Netanyahu to NYC … given the U.S. is not signatory to the IC? Would a Mayor Mamdani welcome Benjamin Netanyahu to the city?” “No, as Mayor, NYC would arrest Benjamin Netanyahu. This is a city whose values are inline with international law, it’s time our actions are also.” “Even though the U.S. is not a signatory to the ICC.” “No, it’s time that we actually step up and make clear what we are willing to do to showcase the leadership that is sorely missing in the federal administration.”

    Free speech is not absolute: there are guardrails when speech threatens, intimidates, and harasses, especially when it’s obviously not hyperbolic rhetoric but rather a cold, calculated, consistent, credible, and unmistakable threat. After watching the video, could there be any doubt as to Mamdani’s intent?

    SCOTUS has a high bar for criminalizing speech: it must be speech that not only incites violence but must also produce imminent lawless action. However, do not confuse the Brandenburg v. Ohio standard on ordinary speech with threats. Threats need not incite immediate violence. In Virginia v. Black—the cross burning case—the standard was that a threat need only be a true threat: a serious expression of an intent to commit an unlawful act of violence.

    However, true threats are not limited to threatening violence. In Planned Parenthood v. American Coalition of Life Activists, “wanted-style” posters targeting abortion doctors were held to be a criminal threat—intimidation itself was enough.

    When foreign officials are involved, the same principles apply under 18 U.S.C. §112. Thus, in U.S.A. v. Glenn Glan, which involved throwing containers with paint at ambassadors—to humiliate, not injure—the Second Circuit ruled threats against diplomats were such that, “neither the plain language of §112(a) nor judicial construction of similar assault statutes requires proof of injury or intent to injure.”

    Under 18 U.S.C. §112, Mamdani’s hatred for Israel has crossed over from mere rhetoric into criminality. “Whoever willfully intimidates, coerces, threatens, or harasses a foreign official or an official guest or obstructs a foreign official in the performance of his duties…shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than six months, or both.”

    Let’s understand why this is so important. In the late 1960s and mid-1970s, terror against diplomats had become the instrument of choice to undermine foreign relations. The Soviet embassy in DC and the Soviet Mission in NY were both bombed. In a synchronized attack, the Yugoslavian embassy in DC, and its consulates in Chicago, NY, and San Francisco, as well as locations in Canada, were all bombed. The Cuban and the Portuguese embassies in DC were both bombed. The Chilean Ambassador was assassinated by a car bomb in DC. Around the world, there were over 50 bombings or attacks on diplomatic missions during this period.

    The nations that fell victim to these attacks were livid, claiming the United States had violated Article 22 of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, which the Senate had ratified, making it de facto U.S. law.

    Ambassadorial violence ran in the other direction, too. America’s standing in the world was plummeting, as violence abroad soared. U.S. Ambassadors were killed in Guatemala, Argentina, Sudan, Cyprus, and Lebanon.

    The need to protect foreign officials was not merely an act of law enforcement; it was a vital geopolitical necessity in an increasingly dangerous world.

    Later, Congress was so worried that §112 would not be enforced that it passed 18 U.S.C. §878, which governs “Threats and extortion against foreign officials.” The statute armed Diplomatic Security Service agents and empowered them to make arrests (the DSS language later migrated to 22 U.S.C. §4803).

    Clearly, threatening “internationally protected persons” —i.e., Benjamin Netanyahu—is not just against U.S. and international law. It is also an assault on the State Department, destabilizes global international relations, and puts American lives at risk.

    The DOJ can get creative here. Mamdani not only threatened Netanyahu but, additionally, to prove it was no slip of the tongue but rather deadly serious—and to ensure Netanyahu saw it—he doubled down and posted the interview to his X account. 18 U.S.C.§875 (Interstate Communication) makes it a crime to threaten to kidnap a person over the internet.

    By using the internet to threaten to arrest a foreign head of state without any lawful authority, Mamdani was, in substance, threatening an unlawful seizure and detention. Under federal law, that is indistinguishable from a threat to kidnap. While courts have traditionally limited § 875(c) to threats of physical injury or abduction, the DOJ could reasonably argue that Mamdani’s statements fall within its scope, particularly when paired with §112. Coincidentally, §875(c) comes with a five-year prison term, while the mayorship is four years.

    Threats against internationally protected persons are not political theater. They are federal crimes that jeopardize U.S. treaty obligations and global security and must be punished. And the higher the profile of the prosecution, the greater the deterrent effect.

    Pam Bondi, call your office.

    https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/11/arrest_zohran_kwane_mamdani.html

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  15. In case anyone is taking this drug…..

    Just The News: “Two U.S. drugmakers are recalling more than a half-million bottles of the blood pressure medication prazosin hydrochloride for possibly containing a cancer-causing chemical, according to the Food and Drug Administration.

    Teva Pharmaceuticals USA and Amerisource Health Services issued voluntary nationwide recalls earlier this month of more than 580,000 bottles of the blood pressure medication, according to the FDA, the Associated Press reported Friday.

    Prazosin is prescribed by doctors to help lower blood pressure, and sometimes for people with post-traumatic stress disorder who have nightmares and other sleep disturbances.

    The FDA said that it gave the affected lots of the drug a Class II risk classification last week because some of the recalled medication may have nitrosamine impurities that are considered potentially cancer-causing. These impurities can form during the manufacture or storage of a drug.”

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  16. “5 States Handed Out $1.4B In Federal Medicaid Funding To Illegals”

    The Federalist, By: Breccan F. Thies, October 31, 2025

    mehmet oz medicaid medicare hhs

    ENTIRE ARTICLE: “Five states and Washington, D.C., funneled more than $1.35 billion in federal taxpayer Medicaid funding to illegals, according to a preliminary audit of the program completed by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).

    CMS Administrator Dr. Mehemet Oz posted the results of the preliminary audit on social media showing California, D.C., Illinois, Washington, Colorado, and Oregon spent millions each on illegals, with California spending the bulk, topping over $1.3 billion alone. That money, according to Oz, was spent “just in the last few months.”

    The left constantly claims this does not, or even cannot, happen because it is against federal law to use programs like Medicaid — something meant for Americans — for illegals, but that small sample of states shows that states are defrauding the American people out of their own programs to the tune of billions of dollars.

    That claim is even more spurious considering the Democrats are only days away from breaking the all-time longest government shutdown record because they care more about funding health care for illegals than citizens of their own country.

    “Some want to deny that illegal immigrants are receiving Medicaid. Others insist it’s illegal for Medicaid to cover illegal immigrants. And others accurately point out that hospitals can provide emergency services to illegal immigrants under the program,” Oz said, noting CMS is intending to have the money returned to them.

    States share Medicaid funding responsibilities with the federal government, and they administer the program independently. The law does not prohibit the states from using their own money to pay for illegals, just federal funding. (This exception provides a back door for federal tax dollars to de facto fund illegals, as money is fungible.)

    According to Oz, Democrats are so zealous about giving American money to illegals that even that massive loophole was not enough, stating, “that didn’t stop Democrats from going even further by breaking federal law to give illegal immigrants federal Medicaid dollars meant for American citizens.”

    “Whether willful or not, the states’ conduct highlights a terrifying reality: American taxpayers have been footing the bill for illegal immigrants’ Medicaid coverage, despite many Democrats and the media insisting otherwise,” he added.

    The illegal immigrant burden on the health care system is massive, and it takes several different forms. Until the “One Big Beautiful Bill” (OBBB) was signed into law earlier this year, Medicaid providing care for foreigners added to that burden. However, as Oz points out, emergency rooms are required by federal law to treat anyone, no matter their financial circumstances or immigration status, because of the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA).

    Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operations seemed to have alleviated some of the pressure from certain emergency rooms notorious for being abused by illegal aliens, as The Federalist reported, but Dr. Jared Ross, an emergency room doctor, said that illegals being kicked off Medicaid from the OBBB could have the unintended consequence of turning them toward emergency rooms instead of going to general practitioners using insurance.

    Reforms in the OBBB are necessary to stop American taxpayers and communities from having to deal with the burden illegal aliens put on their health programs and institutions, but another major avenue of reform will be altering EMTALA to limit illegal immigrants’ capacity to abuse the system.”

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  18. MJTruthUltra
    @MJTruthUltra
    Unbelievable…

    Rand Paul wants you to be 70 Years old before you can collect social security, OR, raise everyone’s social security tax to 25% to keep it at 67.

    The life expectancy for an American today is 78.4 years. So he wants Americans to enjoy only 8 years of peace (if they’re lucky) before they die.

    All the money we’ve been putting into that social security pot over the decades… where the heck is it?

    Our politicians have robbed us blind.

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  23. Just The News: “Locked in difficult trade talks with the United States, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney disclosed Saturday he has apologized to Donald Trump for an anti-tariff television ad from one of his country’s provinces that had angered the American president and led to a halt in negotiations.

    “The president was offended by the act, or by the ad, rather,” Carney told a press conference before departing an international trade meeting in Asia. “It’s not something I would have done — which is to put in place that advertisement — and so I apologized to him.”

    The disputed ad was aired by the province of Ontario and showcased clips from a 1987 radio address in which President Ronald Reagan warned of the dangers of tariffs. Reagan’s library decried the ad as misleading because it altered the order of some of the late president’s comments, and Trump then laced into Canada and cut off talks.

    Carney said Saturday he told Ontario Premier Doug Ford that he didn’t think the province should run the ad campaign, noting “you saw what came of it.”

    “I’m the one who is responsible, in my role as prime minister, for the relationship with the president of the U.S., and the federal government is responsible for the foreign relationship with the U.S. government,” Carney explained.”

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      1. Yep – I went out when the bottom portion got stuck to the bowl. I’ve mentioned that I think he has bad teeth – it gets packed down and licking doesn’t get it so I loosened it up twice for him.

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  25. hubby was collecting sticks and other debris in the driveway and said there’s a lot down on the lower driveway, but nothing he couldn’t push with the tractor off the driveway, so that’s good!

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    2. It certainly looks nicer but, personally, I am not a fan of gold and I like some of the walls to be different than the others – not so uniform.

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  27. OMG…..fucking savages, pure and simple!!!

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