There are many scary Halloween Witch Fingers recipes. Most often, a treat is prepared from shortcrust pastry.

The “Witch's Fingers” treat is the worst recipe!

Unusual cookies prepared according to the recipe below look intimidating. But this does not affect the taste of the original baking!

In order to make cookies, we need:

  • 1 egg
  • 150 grams of butter;
  • 1 cup of sugar;
  • 1 package of baking powder;
  • a handful of pumpkin seeds;
  • 2.5 cups flour;
  • 1 teaspoon of vanilla sugar;
  • a small amount of fruit jam
  • reddish tint;
  • salt to taste.

The process of preparing a treat is as follows:

  1. Butter should be whipped with sugar.
  2. After this one egg is added, the sweet mass is thoroughly mixed.
  3. Then put flour, which is pre-combined with vanilla sugar, salt and a baking powder for the dough.
  4. The resulting dough is wrapped in a film and put in the refrigerator for 25 minutes.
  5. Then they make neat sticks the size of a finger.
  6. On one side of the "finger" squeeze pumpkin seed as a "marigold".
  7. With a knife make small folds on a treat. This is done in order to make cookies as similar as possible to a real finger.
  8. Sweets are baked in the oven at a temperature of 170 degrees. The approximate cooking time is 20 minutes.
  9. After the cookies have cooled, they remove the "nails" from it. Place their "fastening" smeared with fruit jam. After that, pumpkin seeds are attached back.

Original green treat

To prepare a delicious green treat, the following ingredients are needed:

  • 100 grams of granulated sugar;
  • 100 grams of butter;
  • ¼ teaspoon of vanillin;
  • 170 grams of wheat flour;
  • 1 yolk of a chicken egg;
  • ¼ teaspoon of green food coloring;
  • 40 grams of almonds.

The scheme for making cookies looks like this:

  1. In a deep container connect the yolk and butter, which are previously cut into small pieces.
  2. These ingredients are whipped to obtain a homogeneous mass of lush consistency. Then add flour.
  3. The resulting mass is stirred with a silicone spatula, a little sugar and vanillin are added.
  4. The green dye is diluted with a teaspoon of cool water.
  5. Then the dye is put in the dough.
  6. All ingredients are mixed. The dough is wrapped with cling film and put in a cold place for 30 minutes.
  7. The dough is divided into 20 pieces of approximately the same size. From these blanks, small tubes are formed.
  8. One almond nut is inserted into each blank, which imitates a finger.
  9. Cookies are placed on a baking sheet on which parchment is laid.
  10. The back of the knife makes shallow cuts, similar to finger folds.

The treat is prepared in the oven, preheated to a temperature of 180 degrees for 20 minutes.

Cooking from shortcrust pastry

The following products are put into the delicacy:

  • 250 grams of flour;
  • 3 tablespoons of almond flour;
  • 100 grams of butter;
  • 100 grams of sugar;
  • 1 egg
  • a small amount of lemon peel;
  • 1 teaspoon of baking powder;
  • a pinch of salt;
  • 20 pieces of unpeeled almonds;
  • a bit of strawberry jam.

First sift the flour with salt and baking powder. Then add almond flour, butter, egg, sugar, lemon zest and knead the dough.
The dough is divided into 20 parts, of which "fingers" are formed. In the places of the bend, cuts are made with a toothpick. Almonds are pressed to the fingertips in order to make a nail look like.
Then treat spread on a baking sheet. The base of each “finger” is smeared with confiture. Sweets must be baked in the oven at a temperature of 170 degrees. The optimal time for preparing goodies is 20 minutes. Ready cookies are recommended to cool on a wire rack.

How to make cookies even worse?

In order for cookies to look more scary, you can use cinnamon in its preparation. In this case, “Witch's Fingers” will look slightly tanned. You can put small toy spiders on a plate with cookies in order to confuse those around you. After all, on Halloween you need to actively show imagination!

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Some popular Halloween treats

You can cook not only Halloween Witch’s Fingers cookies, but also other goodies. For example, a treat “Night horror stories”.

To make 15 cookies, you need the following ingredients:

  • 500 grams of oil;
  • a glass of flour;
  • ½ cup sugar;
  • 1 yolk;
  • a small amount of cinnamon and vanillin.

To prepare the glaze, you must take:

  • 4 tablespoons of powdered sugar;
  • some food coloring in different colors;
  • 1 protein.

First you need to knead and roll the dough. Then, figures created according to their own colorful sketches (for example, a hat or a pumpkin) are cut out of it.

Cookies must be baked at 200 degrees for about 15 minutes. Colored glaze is applied to the finished treat.

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