To celebrate Halloween, it’s not enough to decorate a room, buy an original costume and make an awesome make-up. People who are responsible for preparing for the party, and treats are prepared in the appropriate subjects. As a dessert, you can serve the Witch's Fingers cookie. And for everyone who wants to truly “scare” their guests, we recommend making chocolate brownie with fingers. Recipes for such baking are presented in our article.
Shortbread cookies "Witches' fingers"
The pastries prepared according to this recipe not only fully correspond to the theme of the holiday, but also turn out to be very tasty.
On Halloween , the Witch Fingers cookies are prepared in the following order:
- In a soft butter (150 g) add a glass of sugar and a little vanillin. Beat the mixture with a mixer for 5 minutes.
- Add raw egg. Mix.
- Combine flour (2 ½ tbsp.), Salt ( ¼ teaspoon) and baking powder (1 teaspoon).
- Knead elastic dough. Wrap it in plastic and refrigerate for half an hour.
- Remove a portion of chilled dough. Form "fingers". Using the back of a teaspoon, make a recess for the nail.
- Melt some chocolate and dilute it with a little water. Lubricate the recess for the nail with the resulting mass. Put the almond nut on top.
- Bake fingers for 20 minutes in a preheated oven at 200 ° C.
Halloween Cookie Recipe with Jam
Even if you do not celebrate this holiday, you can just amuse your friends by preparing such an original baking.
The Witch's Fingers cookie recipe with jam is as follows:
- Quickly make shortcrust pastry. To do this, combine butter (180 g), 100 g sugar, flour (280 g), a teaspoon of baking powder and salt into a homogeneous mass.
- Send the dough into the refrigerator, having previously wrapped it in film.
- After about an hour, you can do the formation of "fingers". To do this, roll the dough into sticks the size of a finger. Hands need to form phalanges, and using the non-sharp side of the knife, note the bends of the fingers.
- Insert almond nuts in place of the nail.
- Bake cookies for 15 minutes at a temperature of 200 ° C.
- When the products have cooled, the opposite side of the nail should be greased thickly with red jam, simulating blood.
Green Witches Fingers
Such pastries are prepared according to the following recipe:
- Using a mixer, butter (200 g) is whipped with powdered sugar (1 tbsp.) Into a creamy mass.
- 1 raw egg is driven in, vanillin, green dye (5 drops), baking powder and salt (1 teaspoon each) are added.
- Gradually sifted flour (340 g) and knead the dough. Before sculpting "fingers" it needs to be well cooled.
- Roll out the "sausages" corresponding to the size of the real fingers from the dough.
- In place of the nail put the almonds.
- Cook cookies "Witches' fingers" at a temperature of 180 ° C until cooked.
- It is necessary to remove the “nail” from each “finger”, lubricate the recess with jam and carefully return the almonds to their place.
Unsweetened Witch's Finger Cookies with Cheese and Peanuts
This recipe is completely different from the previous ones. The fact is that it can be used to cook not sweet, but salty cookies “Witches' fingers”.
The recipe is to perform the following sequence of actions:
- Manually or in a combine, knead a thick dough of diced chilled butter (150 g), grated Cheddar cheese (1 tbsp.), Flour (1 ½ tbsp.) And a pinch of cayenne pepper.
- Wrap it in plastic and refrigerate for half an hour.
- Cover the baking sheet with parchment. Preheat the oven to 180 ° C.
- From chilled dough, pinching off small pieces, blind the "fingers". In place of the nail put roasted and salted peanuts.
- Bake for 15-20 minutes or until golden.
How to submit Witch Fingers in an original way?
Such pastries will surely surprise your guests. Witch fingers are served directly from the ground, the function of which is performed by chocolate chips. It turns out a very tasty and original dessert for the holiday.
How to make cookies "Witches' fingers" was described above. The dough is kneaded with butter, sugar, eggs, flour, salt and baking powder. Then it needs to be cooled and "fingers" formed. In this case, it is desirable to bend several products in the "joints". Cool the finished cookies.
Next, make chocolate brownie. To do this, add a glass of sugar and 2 eggs to the melted butter (100 g). Beat the mass, then add cocoa powder (1/3 tbsp.), Flour (½ tbsp.), A pinch of salt and a baking powder (¼ teaspoon) into it. Put the dough in a mold (20x20 cm), oiled, which should be sent to the oven preheated to 180 ° for 30 minutes.
Cook the chocolate chips. To do this, combine 15 g of cocoa powder, 30 g of sugar, 40 g of flour, ¼ teaspoon of starch, a pinch of salt and 40 g of butter chopped with a knife. Rub the mass into crumbs with your hands. Put it on parchment, smooth and dry in the oven at 180 ° for 10 minutes.
Cover the cooled brownie with chocolate icing on top. In the center, make indentations for 5 fingers. Insert cookies in them. From above, fill everything with chocolate chips so that the "fingers" looked out of the "ground".
Cooking recommendations
The Witch Fingers cookies will turn out even tastier if you follow these tips when preparing it:
- Before forming the products, it is necessary to cool the dough and pinch it in a small piece. Then the "fingers" do not spill in the oven when baking.
- Do not be too lazy to form phalanges, bend lines of joints, naturally make nails.
- Think of an original way to serve cookies. You can thickly grease the “fingers” with jam, and put them on a tray next to a knife stained with sweet “blood”. Or use the option presented in the last recipe.