Halloween is around the corner. Therefore I have a great recipe for you. Like every year, also this time I tried to make something cool for the Halloween party. I think everyone loves small snacks at a party, small finger food snacks (mummies, spider eggs, marble eggs, etc.). And perfect for that are my spooky Halloween snacks, the Halloween finger cookies. They are super easy to make. The recipe is basic but the “fingers” taste great. Are you ready to eat some fingers?
With this recipe, you’ll get ca 40 finger cookies. For that amount, you’ll need one egg. In case, you would like to make less cookies, you’ll need less than one egg. How to do that? Take one egg, beat it and then take a half or a quarter of that, depending on the number of finger cookies you want to make. Easy.
The ingredients for ca 40 Halloween finger cookies are:
- 120 g butter (soft, unsalted)
- 120 g granulated sugar
- 1 egg
- 250 g flour
- 40 almonds
- red food colour
Start with making the fingernails. You want them bloody red. Take a small plastic food freezer bag, squeeze in some of the red food colour (ca 5 g), add the almonds and shake a little bit to make sure that they are completely covered with the colour. Remember, they should be nasty but beautiful. Then take the almonds out of the bag, place them on a piece of aluminium foil and let them dry.
Next, prepare the shortcrust pastry. Usually, you make the shortcrust pastry with cold butter. But for this recipe, the butter should be soft at room temperature. In a bowl mix the butter and sugar. Once they get fluffy add the egg and slowly add the flour. Mix until you see forming small clumps. After that continue kneading with your hand for a couple of minutes. Once everything is well combined, form a ball, wrap it in a transparent food foil and refrigerate for 30 minutes.
Afterwards, prepare a baking tray covered with a sheet of baking paper. Take the dough out of the fridge and start shaping the fingers. With a small piece of the dough, roll a ca 1,5 cm thick stick and shape it to look like a finger. Keep doing that until you used all of the dough. At the end place one almond at the end of each stick and slightly press. Now the fingers are almost ready.
In order for the fingers to keep their shape, I put the baking tray with the rolled fingers in the fridge for 10 minutes. Once the dough is cooled down, preheat the oven at 180º C. Take the tray out of the fridge and with a sharp knife make three small cuts where the bone joints are.
You might also want to add some food colouring at the end of the finger. As a result, it will look like it’s been just cut off. Put the baking tray in the oven and bake for 15-20 minutes.
Serve the finger cookies at your Halloween party or at any other party as a fun and nasty snack.
Enjoy biting the fingers!
