Bewitching Hands

"Great halloween cookies"
 
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Ready In:
30mins
Ingredients:
5
Serves:
24
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ingredients

  • green food coloring
  • yellow food coloring
  • 0.5 (18 ounce) refrigerated sugar cookie dough
  • 14 cup all-purpose flour
  • candy corn
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directions

  • Heat oven to 350°F.
  • Knead drops of food color into dough until it is a yucky shade of green.
  • Knead flour into dough.
  • Shape into a 1-in.-thick disk, wrap and refrigerate 1 hour or until firm enough to roll out.
  • On a lightly floured surface with a floured rolling pin, roll dough to 1/4 inches thick.
  • Using a hand shaped cookie cutter, cut out hands.
  • Re roll and cut scraps once; reserve remaining scraps.
  • Place half the hands 3 inches apart on ungreased baking sheet.
  • Make a 1-in. cut between each finger toward palm.
  • Pinch fingers so each is about 1 inches longer, thinner, wavy and gnarled. Press down on fingertips and on palms to make a little thinner.
  • Mark knuckles with back of a knife.
  • Roll reserved scraps into balls for warts. Gently press warts on hands.
  • Bake 7 to 9 minutes until pale golden around edges.
  • Remove and immediately press candy-corn on fingertips for nails.
  • Cool hands on sheet on a wire rack 5 minutes before removing cookies to rack to cool completely.
  • Repeat with remaining hands.

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After several floods to my basement, I am starting to input all of the many many recipes that I've been collecting for years. I didn't realize just how many I had saved up... must make note to self.. step away from the cookbooks!
 
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