At the end of October, namely on the 31st, in many countries of the world, perhaps the most cheerful and mystical holiday of the year, Halloween. Its history began in the days of the ancient Celts, a people who once lived in the territory of modern Ireland, Scotland and northern France.
The lamp in the form of a man's head, carved from a pumpkin, is one of the symbols of the holiday Halloween. The appearance of this attribute is associated with the Irish legend of an old farmer named Jack, who spent his life in nothing himself, without limiting, especially in drinking and gambling. Dying, Jack could not get into the Garden of Eden, because he sinned a lot, but the devil could not take him to hell, he swore not to take Jack's soul to himself. Since then, this man wanders around the world with a pumpkin instead of a head. Inside the empty pumpkin fire burns, symbolizing the empty and hot head of the revelers.
Young people and especially children love this holiday. After all, on this day you can dress up in terrible, but pretty monsters, vampires, werewolves, sorcerers, night-birds of prey and recklessly rejoice until late in the evening.
Treats in Halloween are not inferior in their bloodthirstiness to dresses and coloring. Dainty reminiscent of the appearance of worms, chopped off fingers, bloody heads and other horror stories are prepared by the confectioners specially and in advance.
By the holiday you can prepare yourself, make bones from marshmallows, a salad in the form of a spider, cut out monsters from different fruits or bake, say, a cookie resembling the fingers of a sorceress. It looks, of course, this batch is pretty creepy, but what can not you do for the holiday.
Recipe for cookies "Witches fingers"
Ingredients:
- creamy margarine - 600 g;
- eggs - 2 yolks;
- flour - 1 and 1/3 cup;
- vinegar - 3 tablespoons;
- cold water - 9 tablespoons;
- almonds - 100 g;
- chocolate - 20 g;
- powdered sugar - 100 g;
- cocoa powder - 30 g.
Preparation
Take margarine at room temperature and grate it with flour. We add yolks, vinegar and water. Knead the dough. We put it in the refrigerator for at least half an hour. Since there is a lot of margarine in the test, it quickly melts. Therefore, to form a cookie, cut the dough into a small slice, just one baking sheet. The rest continues to cool.
A portion of the dough is cut into several pieces, we make rollers about 5-8 cm long. Each roller is shaped like a phalanx of a finger, with the blunt side of the knife we make strips, like on the bend of the fingers. At one end of the rollers, squeeze half of almonds - this will be the nails.
Spread out, formed in the form of fingers, cookies on a baking sheet (do not lubricate!) And bake in a preheated oven to 200 degrees. When the cookie turns brown, you can take it out. The biscuits in this recipe grow with their baking size, so the fingers need to be formed a little thinner than the natural fingers of a person.
Ready cookies are cooled. Chocolate is melted in a water bath. Sugar powder is divided into two parts, one is left as is, and the second is mixed with cocoa powder.
Half of the cookies are rolled in white sugar powder, we spread almonds with raspberry jam .
Including the imagination, you can make "bloody fingers." To do this, water the cookies with scarlet syrup, for example from cherry or raspberry or black syrup from black currant (probably the witch's blood is black?). Light cookies will be the fingers of a good witch, and the dark one is a wicked and terrible witch.
If you have not yet lost your appetite, then enjoy the biscuits, it's really delicious!