Description
Witches Fingers Cookies are spooky, fun Halloween treats featuring buttery almond-flavored cookies shaped like crooked fingers. They’re decorated with green-tinted dough, almond slice fingernails, and red candy melts to resemble bloody fingertips, perfect for a festive party or themed dessert.
Ingredients
Scale
Cookie Dough
- 3/4 cup confectioners’ sugar
- 3/4 cup (1-1/2 sticks) butter, softened
- Leaf Green Icing Color
- 1 egg
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 2-1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
Decorations
- 24 almond slices (about 1/4 cup)
- 1 cup Red Candy Melts Candy
Instructions
- Make Dough: In a large bowl, beat confectioners’ sugar, softened butter, and leaf green icing color with an electric mixer on medium speed until well combined. Add in the egg and vanilla extract; beat again until the mixture is smooth. Gradually add the all-purpose flour and salt, mixing until a smooth dough forms.
- Shape Cookies: Line cookie pans with parchment paper. Divide the dough evenly into 24 pieces. Roll each piece into a log about 4 to 4-1/2 inches long and place on prepared pans. At one end of each cookie, make a slight depression to form the fingernail bed. Using a paring knife, create knuckle indentations along the length of each ‘finger’ cookie. Chill the shaped cookies for 2 to 3 hours until firm.
- Preheat Oven: When cookies are firm, preheat the oven to 325°F (163°C).
- Bake Cookies: Bake the chilled cookies for 15 to 18 minutes or until the edges are light golden brown. Remove from oven and let cookies cool on the pan for 1 minute, then transfer to a wire rack to cool completely.
- Decorate Fingers: Melt the red candy melts following package instructions. Use a small amount of melted candy to adhere one almond slice to the fingernail indentation of each cookie. Dip the other end of the cookie in melted red candy to create a ‘bloody’ effect, then chill the decorated cookies until the candy sets, about 10 to 15 minutes.
Notes
- Leaf green icing color can be gel or liquid depending on preference; gel generally provides more vivid color.
- Chilling the dough is essential to prevent spreading and to keep the finger shapes intact during baking.
- If red candy melts are unavailable, you can substitute with melted red chocolate or colored candy coating.
- Use caution when handling melted candy to avoid burns.
- Store cookies in an airtight container at room temperature for up to 5 days.
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 cookie
- Calories: 110
- Sugar: 7g
- Sodium: 50mg
- Fat: 6g
- Saturated Fat: 3.5g
- Unsaturated Fat: 2g
- Trans Fat: 0g
- Carbohydrates: 13g
- Fiber: 0.5g
- Protein: 1.5g
- Cholesterol: 15mg
