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Ingredients:
- Store bought sugar cookie dough OR favorite sugar cookie recipe
- 1/2 c. flour (if using store bought sugar cookie dough)
- Slivered OR whole almonds
- red jam OR red decorating gel
- Wax paper
- Green food dye (opt.)
- Chocolate chips (opt.)
Directions:
- Preheat oven based on recipe/instructions on package.
- If using store bought sugar cookie dough, add 1/2 cup flour and need into dough (adding flour makes for a firmer cookie). Can also add green food dye for green fingers.
- Refrigerate dough-flour mixture for 20 minutes or until firm and able to hold a shape.
- Remove dough from refrigerator in small amounts. Scoop 1 heaping teaspoon at a time onto a piece of waxed paper. Use the waxed paper to roll the dough into a thin finger-shaped cookie. (The cookies may enlarge when baked so don't make them too round.) Press one almond into one end of each cookie to give the appearance of a long fingernail. Squeeze cookie near the tip and again near the center of each to give the impression of knuckles. You can also score the dough with a sharp knife at the same points to create knuckles on the fingers. Arrange the shaped cookies on the baking sheets.
- Bake in preheated oven according to recipe OR instructions OR until lightly golden brown.
- Remove the almond from the end of each cookie; squeeze a small amount of red decorating gel OR red jam into the cavity; replace the almond to cause the gel to ooze out around the tip of the cookie.
- Before cooling, you can also add a chocolate chip to each finger to give the appearance of warts.
Ingredients:
- Clear, plastic food service gloves
- Candy corn
- Popcorn, any flavor
- Plastic halloween rings
- Twist tie OR ribbon
Directions:
- Take 1 plastic glove and put 1 candy corn in the tip of each glove for fingernails.
- Fill the glove with popcorn, leaving room at the wrist. Tie the wrists with twist tie OR ribbon.
- Put plastic Halloween ring on 1 of the fingers.
