Guide: Crispy witch fingers

Halloween is one of our favorite holiday, at least from a culinary point of view. We love to experiment and we try to design all kinds of strange and scary foods, to create a fun and festive mood for our guests. We cooked two types of witch fingers - and they're some of our best looking Halloween recipes.

The first recipe is fast and easy - at least if you buy frozen puff pastry like we did.  First of all, thaw it :).  Preheat the oven at 180 Celsius. Cut the pastry into long strips (about 1cm wide and 10 long). At one end of each strip stick a pumpkin seed - it will be the nail. Press it a bit into the pastry so it stays.

Beat an egg and brush the surface of each strip. Add some grated Parmesan on the middle of each strip and close to the pumpkin seed "nail". This will cause the pastry to puff less in those areas and give it a crooked look.

Put them in the oven and keep them there till they are cooked (about 20-25 minutes). Take them out and place them in a bowl with the "nails" up.

The second recipe uses the dough from our Walnut Crescent Cookies. Roll the dough just like you're going to make crescents, but don't bend it. Flatten one end and stick a pumpkin seed at the other. You can also use almond slices instead of pumpkin seeds. Press a few lines in the middle (with the back of knife) to make it look like a knuckle. This dough is easy to shape so make the fingers fat or skinny, or both.  

Enjoy and good luck at scaring your guests! :)