Frankenstein Finger Cookies

Step 5 Bake and Cool

Bake for 10-15 minuites or until coconut is toasted and cookie is slightly golden. Cool on a rack. Dip flat end of cookie into red gel frosting and enjoy!

Comments

[MaryWit]

Here are a couple of tips to help the fingers hold their shape: ~Use margarine--sticks, not soft--instead of butter. The fats in margarine are stable, while butter makes cookies spread out more. ~If you do choose butter, ute's additional flour suggestion is good. ~You can also try using less sugar, as sugar melts and causes cookies to spread out. ~Don't overmix. Mix only enough to combine the ingredients without incorporating too much air into the dough, which will result in flat, spread-out cookies. ~Chilling the dough before forming will also help them hold their shape. These are SO gruesome--I cannot wait to show them off! Thanks for the recipe and earlier comments!

[MaryWit]

One more quick note: the photo shows baking soda, but the recipe calls for baking powder. Here's the difference: Baking soda neutralizes acidity in the dough, which allows the cookies to brown. Baking powder is baking soda with cream of tarter (an acid) added; the acidity will result in puffier and lighter cookies. I'm going to use baking powder with the hope of keeping the fingers ghoulishly green.

[Kirrashi]

I made these tonight, and the fingers lost shape and spread out in the oven. They still looked like fingers, just very fat ones! the next tray we made them very skinny, and they ended up just right. Perhaps with more flour they would keep shape better?

[ute]

Yes, I had the same problem so I added about 3/4 cup of flour and it fixed the problem. add it in small increments though, cuz if you get too much flour in there the almonds won't stick. also, i found a better way to do the blood part - instead of red icing, mix light corn syrup and red food coloring and hershey's syrup - it looks way more realistic than red icing - and you can mix up a whole bowl of it, dip the fingers in, then serve them on gauze and let the fake blood sort of drip around. it's awesome.

[aglaranna]

This is great! I might make these for our Halloween lunch at work!!