Eggless Witch Finger Cookies Recipe-Halloween Recipes

• All purpose flour / maida – 1.25 cups
• Powdered sugar – 1/3 cup
• Softened butter – 1/2 cup
• Baking powder – 1/8 tsp
• Salt – a very small pinch
• Vanilla extract – 1/4 tsp
• Whole Almonds – few

• In a wide mixing bowl, combine butter, sugar and vanilla extract. Beat it well with a whisk until creamy, soft and fluffy.
  
• Sieve Maida/ all purpose flour and baking powder.Add this to the butter mixture and make a dough. If the dough is very crumbly and dry, add few tsp of butter or cooking oil. Do not use milk. Mix well and make a soft dough. Wrap the dough in a butter paper or cling wrap and refrigerate it for 30 minutes.
  
• After 30 minutes, take out the dough and let it come to room temperature.It would become soft. Now take a big gooseberry sized dough and make finger shapes by rolling it. Stud in blanched almond for nails. Draw lines using a knife. Grease a baking tray with butter & maida or line with a butter paper. Arrange the cookies in a baking tray. My daughter wanted to make witch hand with palm & fingers. So we shaped like a hand. Please refer picture for the idea.
  
  
• Preheat the oven in convection mode at 180 c. Place the cookies tray and bake the cookies for 15 minutes. After 15 minutes, check if the sides of cookies turn golden brown in sides & bottom. Remove the tray and let the cookies cool down completely.Do not try to remove the cookies, it may break. Cookies would be soft when hot. It turns super crispy & hard after cooled down.So be patient till it cools down.

  

Mix some hot water with the jam and dilute it. Apply them on the cookies and give a blood like appearance. Enjoy these scary cookies !

• You can use with wheat flour or maida & wheat flour in 1:1 ratio.
• Do not use milk for making dough. Cookies may turn chewy & its shelf life would be reduced.
• This cookies stayed good for a week when stored in an air tight box.