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Witchy-Poo Fingers
photo by anniesnomsblog
- Ready In:
- 40mins
- Ingredients:
- 10
- Yields:
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60 cookies
ingredients
- 1 cup unsalted butter, softened
- 1 cup icing sugar (sift through a sieve after measuring to remove lumps)
- 1 large egg (room temp)
- 1 teaspoon almond extract
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 2 1⁄4 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 3⁄4 cup whole blanched almond (you need about 60)
- red decorating gel, as needed
directions
- In a mixing bowl, beat butter sugar, egg and extracts together.
- In another mixing bowl, combine flour, baking powder and salt.
- Beat dry ingredients into butter mixture, then cover bowl and refrigerate for 30 minutes.
- Preheat oven to 325 degrees F; have cookie sheets, lined with parchment paper, ready.
- Remove only 1/4 of the dough from refrigerator (leave rest refrigerated to stay cold); measure out heaping teaspoonfuls and shape into fingers.
- Press an almond firmly into the end of each"finger" to make the fingernail.
- Below the almond and at the opposite end of the finger, press in dough to create knuckle halfway down; using the back of a table knife, make indents into the knuckle (look at your own fingers to get an idea of what this should look like).
- If you want really big ugly fingers with two gnarled knuckles, use about a tbsp of dough per cookie.
- Place on paper-lined cookie sheets and bake in preheated oven until a pale golden colour--about 20 to 25 minutes.
- After first sheet goes into the oven, remove more dough from the fridge to make more fingers.
- When cookies are done, remove from oven and let cool for three minutes.
- Carefully lift up almond from each finger and squeeze some red decorating gel onto nail bed, then press almond back into place; the red gel will creepily ooze out.
- Transfer to a rack and let cool completely.
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Reviews
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Made these last night for tonight-Halloween! They are great. They look nice and creepy and actually are right tastey. They were simple to make. I did add a little more flour, maybe a 1/4 cup and baked them for about 20 minutes till slightly brown on the bottom. This will most likely be a Halloween tradition in our house. They were spooktacular!!!!!(maniacal laugh)
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These were fun to make and tasted great! I needed a little more flour to make the dough workable, but that's not a big deal! I didn't think I'd be any good at making these, but they were remarkably easy and I took the advice to look at my own fingers, which made it easier too! A great Halloween make!
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Tweaks
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I made these for Halloween and just now realized I hadn't reviewed them yet. They were A LOT of fun for our Halloween party. People were amazed. They were deceptively easy to make, though. I made them vegan and gluten-free by subbing Earth Balance margarine for the butter, Ener-G egg replacer for the egg, and Bob's Red Mill gluten-free all-purpose flour blend for the flour. The recipe held up well to my modifications. Also, I used Allibaba's idea and subbed raspberry jam for the red decorating gel. I applied it before baking and it came out looking dark, just like dried/clotted blood! The fingers do rise during baking, so they ended up larger than I expected when molding them (but that was not a problem at all). Thanks for posting this yummy, fun recipe. I'm sure I will make it again for future Halloweens.
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