Scary Witch Finger Cookies For Halloween

Halloween is Oct 31, and if you want a fun and easy cookie recipe, you must make these Witch Finger Cookies. 

With so many Halloween parties happening, this witch finger cookie recipe is the perfect treat.

These are also great little treats to send with the kids to school or daycare if they are permitted.

Perhaps you’re having a Halloween party at work and need to bake a spooky treat with you.

Even if someone else makes a batch, don’t worry they will all get eaten up.

Today, let me show you just how easy it is to make spooky Halloween witches’ fingers.

Homemade Scary Witch Finger Cookies Are Easy

Can you make witch finger cookies without almonds? YES.

To make the cookies nut-free, eliminate the blanched almond and fill the indent with white candy.

You can’t buy these witch finger cookies around where I live, but they are so inexpensive to make. 

From my calculations, not including time and hydro this recipe costs around $5.00 to make.

That’s not bad for a yield of just over 36 witch finger cookies that are a good-sized treat.

The best part is that the witch finger cookies are fun to make, and making these with the kids.

Witch Finger Cookie Ingredients

The ingredients for this witch finger cookies recipe start withbasi1 pantry ingredients.

The bulk barn and Amazon Canada have the lowest prices for blanched almonds and red decorator gel.

This witch finger cookies recipe has been made at our house for Halloween for the past ten years.

Conveniently, this Halloween cookies recipe is a tradition in our house with a cup of coffee to dip in.

Our 7-year-old son loves to dip the witch finger cookies in a cold glass of chocolate milk.

Shortbread Cookies Transform To Witch Finger Cookies

My mum would make similar cookies but not for Halloween, just everyday shortbread butter cookies.

For the imaginative baker, you could switch this scary witch finger cookie recipe up for any occasion.

The only change made over the years is adding the almond extract flavouring.

Initially, the cookie required vanilla extract, and it wasn’t tasty enough, so we used both.

You can also add warts by pressing a chocolate chip into the witch finger.

However, if you dislike almond extract, try lemon extract or add anise extract to the cookie dough.

Alternatively, you could grate orange, lemon, or lime rind then add them to the cookie dough.

Perhaps you’d like to change the finger colour to green, add green food colouring to the dough.

How to Make Spooky Halloween Witches Finger Cookies

Scary Witch Finger Cookies

Note: The printable version of this recipe is below.

Recipe Yield: 36

Total Time:  10 minutes to make, 30 minutes to refrigerator dough

Oven Time: 7-10 minutes

Oven Temp: 350 degrees

TIP: Cook for 7 minutes, then check the bottom. If the base has browned, pull them and move them to a rack to cool.

If you over-cook these cookies, they will get too hard and not taste the best.

Witch Finger Cookies Ingredients

• 1 tablespoon Almond Extract
• 1.5 tablespoons of Vanilla Extract
• 1 cup confectioners sugar (icing sugar) and a bit for your surface 1/3 cup
• 1 cup of butter (softened)
• 2 2/3 cups of all-purpose flour
• 1 large egg
• 1 tablespoon of baking powder
• 1 teaspoon of salt
• 1 tube of red decorator gel
• About 45 blanched whole almonds

Instructions To Make Witches Fingers

• In a mixing bowl or stand mixer add butter and icing sugar and mix until fluffy (2 mins).
• Add in both extracts and mix
• Add in the egg then mix for 1 minute until blended
• Slowly add in your flour, salt, and baking powder and mix until it is all blended
• Put in a bowl, wrap with cling wrap, and put in the refrigerator for 30 minutes to chill (this makes it easy to handle)
• Sugar your surface with icing sugar then take a chunk of the dough in your hands

• Roll the dough into a snake-like figure that is nice and even

• Cut the first finger about 1.5 inches in length and use this as your cutting guide for the rest.
• Make sure you roll them thinner or they will turn out chubby like some of mine did.
• Once you cut your fingers squeeze the top of the finger so the sides come in then press in a blanched almond.
• In the middle of the finger squeeze again to form the knuckle, then using a knife cut in knuckle lines
• Place on a greased baking sheet or like I did on parchment paper.

• Bake for 7-10 minutes but I check at the 7-minute mark. If the cookie is brown underneath, pull them out. Don’t wait for the colour on top of the cookie will be too hard.

• Remove cookies to a cooling rack for 5 minutes

• With your red decorator gel, remove the almond, squeeze some into the nail bed then replace the almond.

How To Make Witch Finger Cookies

Happy Halloween from our home to yours!

Mr. and Mrs. CBB

Ding Dong the Witch is Dead!

There you go, enjoy your Scary Witch Finger Cookies!

P.S. If you want to make them even scarier, you can add green colouring to the cookie dough.

Discussion: What other ways have you dressed up your scary witch fingers?

Would you please share your comments below and send me any pictures you have?

Mr.CBB

Other Frugal Recipes From CBB

• Mr.CBB’s Mum’s British Lemon Fridge Cake
• Mr.CBB’s Pumpkin Spice Pound Cake With Brown Butter Buttercream
• Pumpkin Biscotti with Pumpkin Spice Icing
• Halloween Oreo Rice Krispie Squares
• Quick and Easy Zucchini Casserole