Witch's Finger Cookies for Halloween

Witch's Finger Cookies for Halloween

Here’s a fun, spooky Witch’s Finger Cookies recipe perfect for Halloween! 🎃💀🧙‍♀️
They’re buttery, slightly creepy, and surprisingly easy to make.

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🧙‍♀️ Witch’s Finger Cookies Recipe

Ingredients

• 1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter, softened

• 1 cup powdered sugar

• 1 large egg

• 1 tsp vanilla extract

• 1 tsp almond extract (optional for that witchy flavor)

• 2 ¾ cups all-purpose flour

• 1 tsp baking powder

• ¼ tsp salt

• Whole almonds (for fingernails)

• Red gel icing or strawberry/raspberry jam (for the bloody effect)

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Instructions

1. Preheat oven

   • Set to 325°F (165°C).

2. Mix wet ingredients

   • Cream butter and powdered sugar until fluffy.

   • Add egg, vanilla, and almond extract; mix well.

3. Add dry ingredients

   • In another bowl combine flour, baking powder, and salt.

   • Slowly add to the butter mixture and mix until a soft dough forms.

4. Shape the fingers

   • Scoop about 1 tablespoon of dough per cookie.

   • Roll into a log and shape to look like a crooked, knobby finger.

   • Pinch lightly to form knuckles and cut tiny wrinkles with a small knife.

5. Add fingernails

   • Press a whole almond at one end for the nail.

   • For extra realism, slightly lift or tilt the nail.

6. Chill (Important!)

   • Place shaped cookies on a baking sheet and refrigerate for 10–15 minutes to prevent spreading.

7. Bake

   • Bake for 20–25 minutes until lightly golden.

8. Add spooky details

   • Remove almonds, add a small dab of red gel icing or jam, then gently press almond back on.

   • Add extra “blood” at the base if desired.

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Decoration Tips

✔ Add cocoa powder lightly with a brush for dirt-stained skin
✔ Use green food coloring in dough for witchy skin
✔ Make some broken fingers for dramatic effect
✔ Use slivered almonds for ragged nails

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Variations

✨ Matcha fingers – replace 1–2 tbsp flour with matcha powder
✨ Chocolate witch fingers – add 2 tbsp cocoa powder
✨ Zombie fingers – use pistachios instead of almonds

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INGREDIENTS

• 1 cup butter, softened
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 egg
• 1 teaspoon almond extract
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 2 3/4 cups flour
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 3/4 cup whole blanched almonds
• red food coloring, preferably paste type

INSTRUCTIONS
Preheat oven to 325° F. Combine dry ingredients. Lightly grease a cookie sheet.
In a large bowl, beat together butter, sugar, egg, almond extract and vanilla, beat in dry ingredients. Cover and refrigerate dough for 30 minutes.

If you want to paint the nails first, use some red food coloring that's been diluted with water and brush on with a clean artist's brush.
Working with one-quarter of the dough at a time and keeping remaining dough refrigerated, roll heaping teaspoons full of dough into finger shape for each cookie. Press an almond firmly into one end for nail. Squeeze in center to create a knuckle shape and use a paring knife make slashes in several places to form knuckle.

Place cookies on the prepared cookie sheet and bake for 20-25 minutes or until pale golden. Let cool for three minutes. If desired, lift up almond and squeeze red decorator gel onto nail bed and press almond back in place so gel oozes out from underneath.

Remove from cookie sheet and let cool on a wire rack. Repeat with remaining dough.
Note: Make cookies smaller than you think they need to be, as they spread when cooking. Our witch has fat fingers because we didn't heed our own advice. The witch finger recipe is ready...enjoy the halloween party.....!
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