Thread: Creepy Witch Fingers

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I know we have all seen the recipes for the witch finger cookies, and I actually made them last year! They are delicious, but time consuming... I have found a WONDERFUL solution to that problem! Micheals has a cookie pan in the shape of the witch fingers. It was only around $7! I am so excited! I don't have it in front of me, but I think each sheet makes 8 fingers.

Thanks, I've been wanting to make some of those but wondered how they would taste.

Awesome! I've made them before but they are time consuming. Will have to look for that next time I'm in Michaels. Thanks for the info!

Thanks MrsNightmare for posting this. I to made them for my party last year and they did take some time to shape but they freeze well cause I made them ahead of time to save time.

Thank You I also plan on making them for halloween party this year!

I found an even better secret to make them less time consuming - get the kids to help! I make the dough up in the morning and have the kids come over to do a batch with me in the afternoon.
Time seems to fly by as we laugh at the mis-shapen cookies - the ones that look like toes rather than fingers, and we giggle over the sight (and sound) of the blood (gel) squirting out of the tube. I always make sure to have lots of fingernails (almonds) as the kids love snacking on them while they wait for the cookies to bake.
With the help of my son, then my nieces, and now my 9 year old niece I've been making these cookies every year since finding the recipe in the Oct 1994 edition of Canadian Living magazine. One of my grown nieces is living in town and she has a 2 year old daughter and a 3 month old son- my next recruits!
We live in a small town where it is still okay to offer kids a cookie (if their parents are with them) and many of their parents grew up getting finger cookies at our house on Halloween. We usually make 2 or 3 batches of cookies - for the kids to take to bake sales and Halloween parties, for friends to take to work and even for the local police officers who drive by on Halloween night just to say hello.
I look forward to this tradition every year - a day spent laughing with kids in the kitchen. I am really glad that there is a shaped cookie pan available - anything Halloween related is great by me - but I'll be sticking to the old way. Not that I wouldn't love a little less fuss some years, but it just wouldn't be the same!

Here is the recipe I used... They taste like shortbread! They were wonderful! I already have requests for them again!

Creepy Witch's Fingers

1 c Butter, softened
1 c Icing sugar
1 Egg
1 ts Almond extract
1 ts Vanilla
2 2/3 c Flour
1 ts Banking powder
1 ts Salt
3/4 c Almonds, whole blanched
1 Tube red decorator gel

Gross everyone out with these creepy cookies.

Beat the butter, powdered sugar, egg, and almond flavouring until creamy.
Sift and add the dry ingredients.
Blend to make a soft dough.
Roll into a fingers (They will rise when baked so make them smaller than you'd like the finished finger to be.)
Make a dent for the almonds and lay the almond in to look like a fingernail. Bake at 325 degrees for 20-25 minutes.
Remove from oven and remove almond.
Put a bit of red gel in the nail bed and press the almond back into the finger.

-- Make sure you you use a toothpick to draw lines to resemble knuckles! It is a wonderful touch!

I so wish we had a Michael's. I have to drive about an hour to one.

Scarychery, what you described sounds like so much fun! I have always baked holiday goodies with my kids and nephews, and now that all of them are grown, they still remember what good times we all had together in the kitchen. It became a tradition to play "Monster Mash" over and over and make cookies and cakes all day long... my kitchen was a disaster afterwards, but I didn't care! Now they are doing it with their kids, and invite me over to help, and I LOVE it!

I have a question about the shortbread recipe, what is icing sugar?