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Zombie fingers are a simple yet spooky treat to serve at Halloween parties. If you'd like to treat your little ghouls and goblins to zombie fingers, read on! This page lays out how to make zombie fingers, step by step, and includes several variations you may want to try.
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Introduction
Zombie fingers can be sweet or savory, depending on the materials you use to make them. The basic principle involves an innocent strip food that is transformed into a severed finger. Other foods provide the nails and blood. The recipe below is a tasty sugar cookie that is the basis of a sweet zombie finger. -
Step 1: What You Need to Make Zombie Fingers
- 1 cup of sugar
- 1 cup butter, softened
- 1 egg
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 2 3/4 cup flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 cup pepitas (raw pumpkin seeds that are green)
- 2 tablespoons raspberry jam, thinned with 2 tablespoons water
Step 2: How to Make Zombie Fingers
- Cream butter and sugar until fluffy.
- Add egg and vanilla and mix well.
- Combine dry ingredients with a whisk.
- Add dry ingredients to butter mixture, and blend well.
- Refrigerate dough for 30 minutes.
- Preheat oven to 300 F.
- Working with walnut- sized balls of dough, roll them into "fingers" about 1/3 inch wide and 3 inches long.
- Insert a pepita into the end of each roll as a nail. Extend it slightly beyond the edge of the cookie.
- Use your fingers form knuckles on the cookie in the middle of the finger.
- Bake for 10-15 minutes, until lightly browned.
- Cool and apply drops of blood, by drizzling thinned raspberry jam on the cookies.
Step 3: Other Ways to Make Zombie Fingers
- Dip pretzel rods in white chocolate to cover. Decorate the fingers with red, green, or black decorating gel.
- Serve string cheese or fried mozzarella sticks with marinara sauce on the tips.
- Substitute ready to bake sugar cookie dough for the dough in the above recipe
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