Monday, October 31, 2011

Witches finger cookies baked for halloween-Spooky spooky

These witch finger cookies are simple cookies that I baked for this Halloween. We had a friends gathering and Halloween party over the Halloween weekend and I was suppose to make some snacks and any goodies of my choice. Since it was Halloween I wanted to give some creepy spooky effect for the dish I make and I found this recipe in Allrecipes website. After reading the recipe I knew it is a very basic simple cookie and thought of giving it a try. But must say I was a lot worried about the shape because I haven't done anything like this before and  it is just hand made and there is no cookie cutter way of making it. I decided to give it a try and planned moulding it into simple cookies if the finger cookie shape didn't work. Thankfully it came out good and I was really happy to take this for our Halloween party.

Blanched almonds act as the fingernails for this cookie and I used red food decorator writer to give the blood effect around the nails. Some almonds came off from the baked cookies, I just dipped them in jam and fixed it back on to the cookie. This helped me to keep them in-tact. So let me add this recipe for this cute scary witch finger cookies. Enjoy!!!

                                        


Ingredients:-

All purpose flour/Maida - 2 cups
Confectioner's Sugar - 3/4 cup(add or reduce according to ur taste)
Softened Butter - 1/2 cup(Not melted butter please)
Milk - 1/2 cup
Egg - 1
Baking powder - 1/2 tsp
Salt -1/2 tsp
Whole Almonds - 1/2 cup(Soak almond in water for 15 mins and peel off the skin)
Vanilla extract - 1 tsp
Red food decorator writer/color gel - 1

Preparation Method:-
  • Sift together flour, baking powder, salt into a wide mixing bowl. Add sugar to this and mix with clean hands or spoon to remove lumps if any in the sugar. 
  • To the above dry mix add butter, egg, vanilla extract and knead well with your hands to make a smooth dough.
  • Add milk little by little to the mix if it is dry till you get a smooth dough. You might need to add/reduce the quantity of the milk I mentioned.(You can do this process in a food processor as well which will make your task easier)                                 
  • Cover and refrigerate the dough for 30-45 mins.
  • Pre-heat the oven to 325 degree Fahrenheit. Layer a cookie sheet with parchment paper and set aside.
  • Take out the dough from the refrigerator and make small cherry size balls. Roll each balls lengthwise with your hands on clean kitchen counter top to look like fingers. 
  • Now press one almond each at the end of the dough finger for the fingernail. Place them in the lined cookie sheet
                                           
  • With a knife make three crosswise slits in the middle and two slits in the front of the dough finger.
                                 

                                 
  • Press and work with your fingers on the middle and front part(place before the slits) to give a push up effect as of the real fingers(optional) 
  • Bake for 20 mins or until slightly browned. Remove from the oven and let it cool down completely.
  • Now with decorator writer, draw around the almond nails to give a blood effect(you can use color gel as well)
  • If the almond comes out of the cookie dip them in any jam and press them back again. 
  • Scary witch finger cookies are ready..
                                            
                           
Sending this to the event hosted by Sravani of Srav's Culinary Concepts "CC Festive Food"

                                       

4 comments:

  1. Scarring Finger Cookies!.Happy Haloween Dear.Perfectly done and Luv the recipe too.

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  2. These are real scary ones..You won't believe Pratibha ,I saw this in all recipes.com and thought will give a try this halloween but We had to shift the apartment and this got postponed..It has come out perfect and spooky for halloween!! Perfect baked!

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  3. My first time here and look at what i am commenting on.. The fingers look really bad and creepy, making them perfect for Halloween. Am sure the little goblins would have enjoyed this treat.
    Love Ash

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