Zombie fingersWed, 29 October, 2014▼ JUMP TO RECIPE This is really a cool thing – and it’s surprisingly easy to make them lifelike, or deathlike actually. The almonds will fall off after a while, which I guess is due to decay… And a jolly decent shortbread pastry mix so not just for Halloween. Zombie fingersTime: 1 hourTags: halloweenHide imagesINGREDIENTS 225g softened butter 130g icing sugar 1 egg, beaten 425g plain flour 1 tsp baking powder 1 tsp fine salt For decoration: blanched whole almonds red food colouring METHOD 1. Mix all the pastry ingredients and knead into soft dough. Wrap it in cling film and chill in the fridge for at least half an hour. Tear off chunks of the pastry and shape into fingers – make them thicker at the knuckles and mark wrinkles with a knife. Press in almonds at the ends to make nails. 2. If you get bored of making fingers – this makes a lot of zombie digits – you can just roll out the rest of the pastry and cut into squares. It makes perfectly nice shortbread. 3. Bake the fingers in an oven preheated to 200C/400F/gas 6 for about 10 minutes – they should still be pale when taken out. You can dribble red food colouring around the nails for effect – or smear tomato ketchup at the cut off end before baking. See alsoChocolate eyeballs Morticia's cake Spider web cake Print the recipe NEW recipe finder Ingredients lying around and no idea what to cook with them? Then use my NEW Recipe Finder for inspiration! Recipe Finder Leave a reply Your email address will not be published Characters left 800 Comment* Recipe rating Name* Email address* Web site name Be notified by email when a comment is posted * required Post your comment Push notifications You are subscribed to push notifications. Unsubscribe You have unsubscribed. Subscribe We'd like to notify you about the latest recipes and updates You can unsubscribe from notifications at any time Cuisine Fiend's
