Eggless Spooky Witches’ Finger Cookies

October is Halloween month and we Groovy Gourmets are making some spooky treats to celebrate Halloween. Most of the Halloween food looked scary and I was wondering what to make. Just then I saw many of my fellow blogger friends posting this spooky witches finger for another challenge and the recipe seemed quite easy.

Though these witches’ finger cookies look spooky and scary they are really tasty and melt in mouth. The cookies are perfect for the Halloween theme as they are shaped into long fingers with almonds as witches’ fingernails. To make it creepier, red gel or fruit jam acts as blood. Lets check out how to make these spooky cookies. Recipe adapted from here.

Eggless Spooky Witches’ Finger Cookies

Halloween themed witch finger shaped butter cookies
Servings 25 cookies
Prep Time 20 minutes
Cook Time 25 minutes
Total Time 45 minutes

Ingredients

  • ½ cup butter softened
  • ½ cup confectioners’ sugar / icing sugar
  • ½ tsp almond extract
  • ½ tsp vanilla extract
  • 1 ⅓ cup all purpose flour
  • ½ tsp baking powder
  • ½ tsp salt
  • Whole almonds
  • Red food gel or fruit jam

Instructions

  • Combine the butter, sugar, almond extract and vanilla extract in a mixing bowl. Beat together with an electric mixer until fluffy.
  • In a bowl mix together flour, baking powder and salt. Add this gradually to the butter mixture and beat continually to make a smooth dough.
  • Cover the dough with cling wrap and refrigerate for 30 minutes.
  • Preheat oven to 325 degrees F / 165 degrees C. Lightly grease a baking tray or baking sheet.
  • Scoop 1 heaping teaspoon at a time onto a piece of waxed paper. Use the waxed paper to roll the dough into a thin finger-shaped cookie.
  • Press one almond into one end of each cookie. Squeeze cookie near the tip and near the center and make lines for knuckles with a tooth pick.
  • Arrange the shaped cookies on the baking tray and bake for 20 to 25 minutes or until the cookies are slightly golden in color. Allow to cool.
  • Remove the almond from the end of each cookie, apply a bit of jam or food gel into the cavity and replace the almond to cause the jam to ooze out around the tip of the cookie.

Notes

  • The cookies will appear soft in the beginning, but will set after cooling down.
  • Take little portion of the dough to make cookies and refrigerate the rest of the dough while one batch of cookies are being shaped and baked.
  • The cookies will expand a little on baking, so roll them into thin fingers.
Course: Snack
Cuisine: American

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  1. nicely done cookie looks so scary

  2. Delicious spooky witch finger I love it.
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  3. Spooky and perfectly made witch fingers…

  4. Oh my God freaking scary.Well done Sona

  5. Fantastic fingers! they are really scary and looks spooky.

  6. all of you made really spooky fingers.

  7. They are really spooky..Well done.

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  9. I have seen a few of the same and to all of them and yourself, salute for the creativity and outcome. It is spooky but I am loving how you spend the time, effort and talent to make it,

  10. Really spooky.. Perfectly made

  11. looks yummy n scary too but great work..like it..

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  12. looks really scary…nice clicks

  13. OMG so scary 🙂 but love them 🙂

  14. really spooky n gr8 clicks…

  15. Very spooky, perfect for Halloween..

  16. Scary fingers.. Must try once 🙂

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