Thread: Creepy Witch Fingers

Tweet

Mrs. Nightmare, I went to Michaels yesterday and saw some plastic chocolate molds in the shape of witch's fingers and also skeleton fingers. I will go back and look in the baking section, I was only looking at Halloween things.
Last year we put the dough in a cookie press, left the shaped tip off, and squeezed the dough into long tubes. We then cut them into lengths and shaped the fingers. We used cherry jam at the base of the nails which came out really nice.

Icing sugar is powdered sugar. It's really fine sugar.

I was in Michaels today and the witch's finger baking pans are Wilton. I almost picked one up but wondered how difficult it was to shape the cookie dough yourself and add the knuckles. I would think you would just need a tried-and-true stiff batter recipe that doesn't spread when it bakes.

BTW I was also in Sur La Table today and they carried the Wilton pans as well, same price. Michaels and Wilton doesn't have the pan on their website, but Sur La Table does. BTW they have some other nice halloween kitchen items as well if you're browsing. I kind of like the Skull and Crossbone LED lit ice cube lights. They might be nice in a punch bowl. Here's their search page for halloween.

Made them last year and they were all gone w/ in 20 minutes.

I did one trick thou I blended chocolate graham crackers into a fine dirt and had the fingers sticking out of them =p

That is a great idea!!! I have a cookie press and that would have never crossed my mind! I just used the almonds for the nails last year and they kept falling off, so a local store just had the big bags of black icing that come with a tip on sale for $1! So this year I was going to use that to attach them, but the red jelly sounds so good, I might have to save the black icing for something else!! Thanks for the info! I am so excited to make them! I am going to make up a batch for our friends to celebrate our first haunted house! I'm so cheesy!

SORRY, PREVIOUS POST WAS UNDER THE MR! FORGOT TO LOG INTO MINE! He doesn't bake, and surely isn't cheesy! Sorry yall!

Mrs Nightmare, I used blanched sliced almonds for the fingertips and they looked to real it was a little creepy. They didn't fall off at all. Found blanched sliced almonds at the multinational grocery near my home.

Originally Posted by MrNightmare

That is a great idea!!! I have a cookie press and that would have never crossed my mind! I just used the almonds for the nails last year and they kept falling off, so a local store just had the big bags of black icing that come with a tip on sale for $1! So this year I was going to use that to attach them, but the red jelly sounds so good, I might have to save the black icing for something else!! Thanks for the info! I am so excited to make them! I am going to make up a batch for our friends to celebrate our first haunted house! I'm so cheesy!

yEAH THE RASBERRY JAM STICKS BETTER AND LOOKS MORE REAL!