Name: Witches' Fingers for Halloween
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 30 min
Ingredients: 350 g all purpose flour; 250 g butter; 100 g icing sugar (powdered sugar); bright coloured Smarties or M & M's or blanched almonds for decorating

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These Witches’ Fingers are so much fun.

Even if you don’t celebrate Halloween, these cookies are delicious. Witches’ Fingers can be made “cute” or “scary”.

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How to make yummy Witches’ Fingers.

A recipe could never be easier than this one.

in the food processor combine flour, butter and icing sugar to form a dough
rest in the fridge
shape as desired
bake

There is no reason why you shouldn’t make these. Firstly these cookies are delicious and melt in your mouth. Secondly, Witches’ Fingers are super easy! Finally, what fun you can have with these cookies!

Can you use this shortbread recipe to make regular shortbread?

Absolutely! Shortbread is an easy cookie to make and shape.This dough is so versatile and can be shaped how ever you desire. This recipe is not limited to Halloween. Reshape and enjoy throughout the year.

Shortbread is one of my favourite cookies and probably yours too. Have a look at my traditional Scottish shortbread or this Sbrisolona which is an Italian traditional torta with the wonderful qualities of shortbread.

Baci

This updated recipe was first published on 31 October 2011

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Witches' Fingers for Halloween

These Witches' Fingers are so much fun and delicious too. This is a simple shortbread dough which melts in the mouth.

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Prep Time: 15 minutes

Cook Time: 15 minutes

Total Time: 30 minutes

Servings:30 cookie fingers

Author: adapted from Better Homes and Gardens Australia

Ingredients

350 g all purpose flour
250 g butter
100 g icing sugar powdered sugar
bright coloured Smarties or M & M's or blanched almonds for decorating

Metric - US Customary

Instructions

Whizz in a food processor until it all comes together.
Then form into a ball and refrigerate for 1 hour.
I let it soften a bit before I could form my shapes.
Cute Witches Fingers are made by rolling out the dough and cutting finger shapes. I used a little egg white to ensure the Smartie/ M & M stuck to the dough.
Scary Witches Fingers are made by rolling ropes of dough before portioning into finger lengths. Press a split almond on the end to represent finger nails.
Bake for 12- 15 minutes.

Nutrition

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Comments

Stella Carslaw
October 25, 2018 at 12:48 am

The best Halloween biscuits around! Old and young love them, so easy to make too. Thank you!
- Marcellina
  October 25, 2018 at 8:15 am
  Yes, I agree!!
Catalina
November 05, 2011 at 6:14 pm
Halloween is not celebrated in my country so I always enjoy watching themed recipes on my favourite food blogs during that time 🙂 And you're no exception! I love your cute fingers maybe even more than the scary fingers (which are perfect, too!). Happy Halloween sounds great and funny 😀
Cakelaw
November 02, 2011 at 11:00 am
The witches fingers look amazing! So life like – they'd scare me!
The Baking Gypsy
November 01, 2011 at 3:55 pm
What a fantastic and festive treat! Totally love it! :))
I hope you had a wonderful holiday!
xoxo,
Tammy
Claudia
October 31, 2011 at 5:33 pm
I love playing with witches fingers – your are especially spooky. Wonderfully spooky! And ghoulishly delicious!
Kiara
October 31, 2011 at 2:51 pm
Marcellina ma che belle le tue dita!!!!!!!!! Complimenti cara e buon Halloween!
Marcella
October 31, 2011 at 1:13 pm
Marcy sono bellissime!!!! Devo assolutamente provare a farle!