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Zombie fingers, guaranteed to give your family the creeps
Creepy, crumbly and deliciously gruesome, these zombie finger biscuits are a Halloween treat that's almost too frightening to eat!
These zombie fingers make a frightfully good Halloween biscuit that’s simple enough for kids to help bake. Made with buttery vanilla biscuit dough, they’re shaped into severed fingers, complete with wrinkled knuckles, almond fingernails and a generous smear of raspberry jam for that freshly bitten-off look. They’re surprisingly easy to make, and getting the fingers to look as gruesome as possible is half the fun. Pile them into a bowl, let a little jam drip down the sides and watch your guests decide whether they’re brave enough to take a bite!
Prep time: 30 minutes, plus 30 minutes chilling | Cooking time: 20 minutes | Servings: Makes about 20 biscuits
Ingredients
- 250 g butter, softened
- 125 ml icing sugar
- 5 ml vanilla extract
- 500 ml cake flour
- 2.5 ml salt
- 20 whole almonds
- 60 ml raspberry jam, for the “blood”
Method
- Cream the butter and icing sugar together until light and fluffy.
- Beat in the vanilla extract.
- Sift in the flour and salt, and mix until a soft dough forms.
- Wrap the dough and chill in the fridge for 30 minutes.
- Preheat the oven to 160°C and line two baking trays with baking paper.
- Pinch off small pieces of dough and roll into finger shapes, about 8 cm long, tapering slightly at one end.
- Use the back of a knife to score two or three lines across each finger to look like knuckles.
- Press a whole almond firmly into the tapered end of each finger to look like a nail.
- Place the fingers on the prepared trays and bake for 18 to 20 minutes, until pale golden.
- Remove from the oven and allow to cool completely on the tray.
- Once cooled, dab a small amount of raspberry jam at the base of each almond, letting it drip slightly down the finger to look like blood.
- Serve piled into a bowl or platter.
