Witches Fingers and Eyeball Punch
I thought these were hilarious and creative. Originally displayed on food_porn on Livejournal. A great idea for halloween treats. I should do more decorating, but Halloween really crept up on me this year.
Witches Fingers:
1 C butter, softened
1 C sugar
1 egg
1 tsp. almond extract
1 tsp. vanilla extract
2 3/4 C flour
1 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. salt
3/4 cup whole blanched almonds
red food coloring
and/or
1 tube red decorator gelMakes About 5 Dozen Cookies
Preheat oven to 325° F. Combine dry ingredients. Lightly grease a cookie sheet.
In a large bowl, beat together butter, sugar, egg, almond extract and vanilla, beat in dry ingredients. Cover and refrigerate dough for 30 minutes.
Working with one-quarter of the dough at a time and keeping remaining dough refrigerated, roll heaping teaspoons full of dough into finger shape for each cookie. Press an almond firmly into one end for nail. Squeeze in center to create a knuckle shape and use a paring knife make slashes in several places to form knuckle. If you want to paint the nails, use some red food coloring that’s been diluted with water and brush on with a clean artist’s brush.
Place cookies on the prepared cookie sheet and bake for 20-25 minutes or until pale golden. Let cool for three minutes. If desired, lift up almond and squeeze red decorator gel onto nail bed and press almond back in place so gel oozes out from underneath.
Remove from cookie sheet and let cool on a wire rack. Repeat with remaining dough.
Note: Make cookies smaller than you think they need to be, as they spread when cooking. Our witch has fat fingers because we didn’t heed our own advice.
Eyeball Punch:
Ingredients
For punch
2 parts vodka
2 parts white cranberry juice
1 part white grape juice
1 part lemonadeFor eyeballs
4 cans of pitted lychees
1 bunch of smallish dark purple grapesFor bloody hand
red cranberry juice
cleaned plastic hypoallergenic gloveMake sure all ingredients for punch are cold. Freeze the vodka.
Pour red cranberry juice into glove and twist and tie with a rubber band. Freeze for at least 24 hours. It needs to be frozen very hard.
Drain the lychees and carefully insert one grape into each. If you want to do this ahead of time, put them in a bowl and cover with one of the ingredients of the punch (or a mixture), to keep moist in the fridge.
Mix ingredients for punch in a large, clear punch bowl and add the eyes. When the first guest arrives, snip the plastic glove off of the hand and float it in the punch bowl.
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