Recipe: Yummy Witch finger cookies

Witch finger cookies. In a bowl, beat together butter, sugar, egg, almond and vanilla extract; beat in flour, baking powder and salt. Add a few drops of green food coloring until it reaches your desired green. Roll heaping tablespoons of dough into finger shape for each cookie.

Press one almond into one end of each cookie to give the appearance of a long fingernail. Spooky Witch Fingers are a shortbread cookie with a hint of almond flavoring. They are so easy to make and a great way to involve your kids in the kitchen. You can have Witch finger cookies using 7 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Witch finger cookies

1. It's 1/4 cup of butter.
2. It's 1/2 cup of sugar.
3. It's 1 tsp of vanilla extract.
4. Prepare 1 of cupplain flour.
5. You need 1 tbsp of chocolate powder.
6. It's 1/2 tsp of baking powder.
7. You need 5 tbsp of strawberry jam.

We love Halloween, and all of the food and fun that come with this holiday. We have family traditions that bring back a flood of happy memories. Brush the almonds with egg white on one side and place them with the coated side down onto the pointy ends of the fingers. Let the fingers cool before gently removing them from the baking tray.

Witch finger cookies instructions

1. Firstly in a large bowl Beat the butter and sugar until soft. Add vanilla, and whisk again. Now add flour and baking powder, and mix to form a soft dough take a 1/4part of it and mix cocoa powder and keep aside. Chill for 30 mins..
   
   
2. Heat oven to 180°C. Divide the dough and roll each piece into a finger shape.Apply jam so it will look like blood. Press the back of a knife into the dough to make knuckles..
   
   
3. Lightly press a chocolate dough to give nail shape where the nail would be. Now Put on lined baking trays and chill for 30 mins. Bake for 10-12 mins until pale golden. The SPOOKY WITCH FINGERS ARE READY FOR HALLOWEEN.

Next, pinch the dough to create two indentations to imitate the knuckles/joints of a finger. With a butter knife, create creases to imitate finger folds and joints. Place on ungreased cookie sheet and, using a paring knife, draw creases for the knuckles on the finger. Transfer the cookies, carefully, to a cooling rack and allow to cool completely. While the cookies cool, spray the almond slices with the black food coloring.