Comments on: Halloween Party Treat: Witches Finger Cookies

By: StevenO

StevenO — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 00:25:52 +0000

Mine turned out perfect, but I used my own shortbread recipe and replaced the chocolate for raspberry jam, it locked sick.

By: rita schoaf

rita schoaf — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 19:48:48 +0000

Nice how did u get ur fingers to look like they do in the pic i fallowed directions and they keep turning flat on me i had the oven on 350 like most of the sights had it on my oven is gas and i fallowed the directions like others did i bought doughboy dough though not home made

By: Linette

Linette — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 02:19:14 +0000

Dawn~ It’s more of a shortbread than a cookie, it doesn’t rise or change shape much, and it’s a little denser than a normal cookie to hold the shape so I don’t think refrigerated cookie dough will work, but if you try it stop back and let us know how it worked for you.

By: Dawn

Dawn — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 00:37:20 +0000

Could you just use refrigerated cookie dough ?

By: wendy

wendy — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 21:41:08 +0000

I tried these, but they were way too salty. I am going to try making them again tonight but decrease the salt to 1/4 tsp.

Also, I used raspberry jelly on the nail beds and cooked them with the almond slivers. They look really cool!

By: SuzyQ

SuzyQ — Sat, 30 Oct 2010 06:06:21 +0000

I used this recipe, but I added a little green food coloring, and instead of using chocolate, I bought one of those small tubes of red gel icing. They turned out amazing! A couple things I learned were to use flour on your hands while you’re rolling these, or the dough sticks. And when rolling the dough make them on the skinnier side, they do puff up a little bit.

By: Karen

Karen — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 22:37:35 +0000

I made these for our annual Witches Who Wine party. They came out fabulous and everybody was amazed at how lifelike they looked. Don’t forget to add the 1 cup of sugar LOL ! The trick with these cookies is to make them much thinner and smaller than the picture because they will expand and flatten some as they bake. Also you must keep the dough extremely cold as you work. I took out a tablespoon at a time and kept the bowl and my cookie sheet in the refrigerator. I also put the filled cookie sheet in the freezer for a few minutes until the fingers were very cold and stiff before I baked them. That is how they came out the best! I also removed the almond from each finger after baking and used a store bought tube of Betty Crocker black decorating gel and piped it around the indentation and immediately replaced the almond , absolutely PERFECT

By: Karen

Karen — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 23:54:27 +0000

Huge disappointment. Flat..followed the directions exactly. Dough was well chilled. Guess it’s plan B for what to bring to Halloween party!

By: Patrick

Patrick — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 20:38:20 +0000

Try sticking a pretzel inside before you bake them as a bone inside!

By: eileen askew

eileen askew — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 17:47:09 +0000

am trying to make the witches fingers, but had people come in to visit so,I kept on mixing cookie dough BUT..I put sugar, eggs, butter and flour in all at the same time. the dough is crumbly, but still shapes into a nice finger.will this still work? even if dough is crumbly?

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By: Granny Mary

Granny Mary — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 21:33:11 +0000

Make these thin or they will get too fat! We called the first batch ogre toes and the second witches fingers and we used regular whole almonds.

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Country Meadow » Blog Archive » Goulish Halloween Recipes — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:46:58 +0000

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By: mj phillips

mj phillips — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:58:14 +0000

These have become a tradition at our annual work Halloween Luncheon which includes all kinds of gross food titles and creative gross looking but delicious dishes! People come to me year after year asking if I am making these! This is the fourth year now!!! I add a little more flour so they don’t spread too much. I also used slivered almonds for realistic looking nails….yuk! Delicious!

By: Kristina

Kristina — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 04:51:44 +0000

I’ve made shortbread witches’ fingers for years and they are always a hit! It’s important to use a recipe with no leavening agents so the cookies stick to their shape. (I prefer a pecan shortbread which gives them a slightly darker, deader, skin color). It works really well to use sliced almonds painted with plain old red food coloring, inserted as fingernails before baking, to give a creepy reality to the cookies. Really look at your fingers & imagine the bones only when shaping them. That will get you the most realistic look. Also don’t make the knuckle wrinkle marks too perfect. Serve on a wooden cutting board with red food coloring dripped on a cleaver to make the service truly creepy!

By: Kim

Kim — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 20:24:12 +0000

I made a slight change for kids with nut allergies…no almonds or extract. I added green food coloring and used yellow green icing on the nail bed…my son calls them…gross ogre fingers.

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Halloween « Relish, my Relish — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 10:48:59 +0000

[...] We had a great Halloween party and we will have to do something similar next year. I think I will make more Witches Fingers to scare people with too. They were great and creepy, go here if you want a great and easy recipe. [...]

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By: Linette

Linette — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 20:47:20 +0000

leah- Try chilling them before you bake them.

If you’re melting the chocolate around the fingernails, make sure you use a fine decorating tip, or you can use decorator, or gel icing around the edge if you have a fine tip on your decorator bag.

By: leah

leah — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 07:05:51 +0000

Any tips for stopping them from flattening out? Mine keep coming out like pancakes!

By: Leigh

Leigh — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 21:25:55 +0000

The cookies tend to flatten so keep them in the fridge up until baking. The chocolate around the fingernail did not turn out, so I painted the fingernails chocolate instead. The blanching of the almonds took the most time, but I tried a few unblanced and they looked great. It’s a fun treat for Halloween, but be sure you have an afternoon to make them.