Hi and a huge Halloween welcome to Steve's Kitchen, today we're going to be taking a
simple sugar cookie
and turning into some scary witches fingers for Halloween
so come across let me show you how I'm going to make them now
So in a mixing bowl I've
got a cup thats about 250 grams of butter and I just want to melt that down
now my microwave isn't working so I'm going to call upon Thor
the god of thunder and lightening to melt mine for me
thanks Thor of course you could do it in the microwave and 30 seconds at the time
it melts
really very quickly into the melted butter I'm going to add two and a half cups
of all-purpose flour
and I've got half a cup of caster sugar as well thats the superfine sugar
doesn't need to be sifted we're just going to take a fork
now and just start to cream those together
as that starts to come together I'm just going to put half a teaspoon of vanilla
extract now
I'm going to eyeball that doesn't need a great deal and then continue to mix
the cookie mixture together now because I've used melted butter
the dough is quite wet which is great because I'm going to be adding a little
color into this, I've got this Americolor forest green
I want green witches fingers I just think it looks cool so I'm going to put a
couple of drops of green in there now this gel coloring is very strong so you
shouldn't need too much
and then I'm just going to continue to mix that through
and once most the of the color's in there I'm just going to finish this off with my
hands get your hands in there
and pull all the dough together and get a nice
even green and that's the color I'm looking for now
my dough is still very soft so I'm just going to pop that in the fridge for an
hour and let it completely chill down
so my cookie dough's been resting in the fridge it's chilled down a little bit it's
almost ready
but before I start guys I've got three different almond ideas for the
fingernails for my witches fingers
I've seen them done with blanched plain almonds some with the skins on and I do
like this one I think it looks really sort of creepy and old
and also these ones I just colored in red food coloring and that looks great
too what I'm going to do is make
all three and you guys can decide comments down below
what you think. Now lets get on and make the cookies now I've got about an ounce and a half
about 50 grams of cookie dough
and I'm just rolling it out I want to make it
little bit longer than a normal finger because it is a witches finger
after all
and I like to put the Almond in first before start marking the fingers so I'm
just going to put my witches
fingernail almond in there and just push it halfway into the dough
just shape it round slightly like so
then I like to press a couple of little indentations
in the finger just sort of two thirds of the way up
and take a knife or I'm using a palette knife here
and we're just going to mark three little lines
on each of the knuckle joints sort of just squeeze them out a little bit
just to open them up and there you have
the first let me just turn that round so you can see, there you have the first of my
witches fingers
Now let's try those with the other fingernails so you can see what they
look like
now as my tray starts to fill up I'm just starting to actually roll my
cookie dough
out on a on a wooden board like this and what you can do is just
roll it out to approximately the length you want just snip off
two ends and then you can just move that onto the cookie tray
next to the the last witches finger pop your almond
into place but the little
two little pinches on there and shape your cookie
on the baking tray itself. So I've got a tray full now of those witches fingers
with all the different
almond fingernails on there now these need to be chilled down because when your
doing shaped cookies
you really want to chill this down 45 minutes or so in the fridge
before you bake it so it helps it keep it's shape and you might have noticed that I'm not
using a leavening agent like baking powder
because also when your doing shaped cookies that will
just make the cookies spread and swell and your lose a lot of the shape
so lets pop these in the fridge now. Now my witches fingers are chilled down
beautifully now they're nice and firm we're going to pop them in an oven that I've
preheated
to 190 celsius that's about 400 degrees Fahrenheit
for about eight to ten minutes just keep an eye on them don't let them
overcook
so my witches fingers are out of the oven now and I've just let them cool down on
the side
now the last thing we are going to do we just need to remove the almond
from the cookie and then take a tiny amount of
red jam or jelly and just pop it in there behind
the nail where the nail was and then
pop that almond back so we get this sort of
red blood coming out from the edge of the nail
and that just makes it a little bit spooky a little bit cool and there you have the
witches fingers
and on Halloween if you just cover them over like this with a little napkin
when the kids see them they'll be able to come up and just pull a finger
out from under the napkin they look really cool and there you go
I still like this unpeeled almond but I've experimented so you don't have to
tell me down below what you think is best let's get on and give this a try
strange thing to eat
well they're a sugar cookie
they're really great actually lots of fun give this one a try
comments down below be good I'll see you in the next video.
Thank you for joining me guys that was a lot of fun and don't forget that last week we did the trick or
treat
treats they were really very simple recipes to do with kids
and I'll leave some links here maybe to some of those videos
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