Bewitching Hands

Total Time: 30 mins Preparation Time: 30 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 24
• green food coloring
• yellow food coloring
• 0.5 (18 ounce) refrigerated sugar cookie dough
• 1/4 cup all-purpose flour
• candy corn

Recipe

• 1 heat oven to 350°f.
• 2 knead drops of food color into dough until it is a yucky shade of green.
• 3 knead flour into dough.
• 4 shape into a 1-in.-thick disk, wrap and refrigerate 1 hour or until firm enough to roll out.
• 5 on a lightly floured surface with a floured rolling pin, roll dough to 1/4 inches thick.
• 6 using a hand shaped cookie cutter, cut out hands.
• 7 re roll and cut scraps once; reserve remaining scraps.
• 8 place half the hands 3 inches apart on ungreased baking sheet.
• 9 make a 1-in. cut between each finger toward palm.
• 10 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.
• 11 mark knuckles with back of a knife.
• 12 roll reserved scraps into balls for warts. gently press warts on hands.
• 13 bake 7 to 9 minutes until pale golden around edges.
• 14 remove and immediately press candy-corn on fingertips for nails.
• 15 cool hands on sheet on a wire rack 5 minutes before removing cookies to rack to cool completely.
• 16 repeat with remaining hands.