Severed Fingers... Hmmm, Tasty

It’s that time of year! Halloween is fast approaching and with the holiday comes lots of yummy treats. While most of these treats come wrapped and from the supermarket, why not make some of your own homemade ones? I have a ghoulish yet delicious dessert perfect for Halloween: Severed Finger Cookies! Complete with nail and fake blood. My friends had a Halloween party last year and had these cookies out for guests to eat. They were so much fun to look at. Some folks were grossed out, but I just kept eating them by the handful, pun intended. 

You can make these with either red frosting or edible red writing gel. If you make them with the frosting, let the frosting harden a bit and you can pack them up. The gel doesn’t dry so they have to be eaten right away. You can always decorate them just before they are ready to serve. The gel looks more like real blood but they are both delicious. Just use a sliced almond as a nail, tack it on with some fake blood and finish it off with finger lines and a bloody stump. You’ll have a creepy and delectable treat everyone will enjoy.

Ingredients:

2-2/3 cup flour

1 tsp baking powder

1 cup butter, softened

1 cup confectioner’s sugar

1 egg

1 tsp almond extract (optional if you want almond flavored fingers)

red writing gel or red frosting in a tube

sliced almonds

Preheat your oven to 325 degrees.

Mix the flour and baking powder in a bowl. In a separate bowl, cream the butter and confectioner’s sugar with a handheld mixer or a spoon and some elbow grease. Add the sugar and butter mixture to the flour mixture and add the egg and almond extract. Mix thoroughly until you get one big lump of dough.

Take sections of the dough, about 1 inch round clumps. Roll in our hand to form a ball then roll again between the palms of both your hands to make a 3 inch long finger. Add each finger to a baking sheet lined with aluminum foil. Flattened each finger ever so gently. If you want to be even more creative, you can score the cookies with a knife to make the lines for the skin wrinkles or the cuticles.

Once you have formed all your fingers, bake for 20-25 minutes or until the edges just start to become golden. Don’t over cook!

Let cool for about 10 minutes before frosting. Take your frosting or gel tube and squeeze a half moon at the top of the finger. Place an almond nail on top. Then add three lines across in the middle to represent wrinkles. Squeeze more frosting on the bottom to represent the bloody stump. Enjoy! ::evil laugh::