greetings ladies,
I showed my kids the severed fingers cookies and they want me to make them for Halloween (we may have a party), but the problem I'm having is finding a substitution for the almonds. One of my twins is severely allergic to ALL nuts & tree nuts

Any suggestion on what else I can use?

Thanks in advance.

Sorry I don't know what you are talking about, did not see the cookies but here is a bump

I say leave off the nuts and indent the tip slightly with a spoon or something like that and brush colored egg in the nail bed. this will give the look of a nail. make it brown or some terrible gross color. How about prunes, raisens, crainberries or pumpkin seeds if they are safe!!!

good luck and let us know how they enjoy them

what are the almonds used for?? fingernails???

How about just making the tips of the finger pointy and painting a nail on them when they are cooled. or you could use a piece of fruit tape cut into a nail share and stick it on when cookies are warm?

Cut a piece of fondant in shape of nail. Stick it on with dab of frosting.
Fondant can be all different colors.
Or use some candy melts and form them.
Or make candy clay and stick them on.
Oh, I could go on and on.
In my gallery I made the fingers. Almonds aren't the only things to use.

carful with the candy melts, the Wilton ones are not nut-free safe

Thanks again for the tips everyone. I will post pics after Halloween. But then again, I may do a trial run to see if they will come out right. What is the best thing to use for "blood"? strawberry jelly (or any red jelly)?

Cupcakemkr, I'm very careful. I'm always in the store reading the back of ingredients to make sure they are nut-free. I do not want anything happening to my baby. The last time he ate a muffin (from his class) we ended up in the ER b/c he had a sever allergic reaction and he didn't respond to the OTC anti-histamines. Now we have an epi-pen. So, trust me, I'm extremely careful.

candy corns could be easy and tasty.

To make edible Fake Blood: Stir drops of gel Red food color (I use Americolor Super Red) into Clear Corn Syrup until desired shade. Add a bit of chocolate syrup to make it less clear and more like real blood. Thin with a bit of water if too thick.

Wow, thanks for the heads up on the Wilton candy melts. I didn't know that!! Who would have thought!

As far as the blood, it's a tricky one. The 'gel' tubes you can buy, never seemed to dry. So if I covered the plate of the cookies, the gel always stuck to the saran wrap. Maybe the above corn syrup recipe would be better.

Hello Everyone,
I was on youtube and I came across a video on severed Cheese fingers & severed witches fingers using bread. Here is the link for the cheese.

Thank You for the link, and here is another.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ru4AbMOjV7k&NR=1

The cookies are so easy! Use any sugar cookie recipe or NFSC recipe and form the finger. Make your lines and knuckles. Then pop on an almond for the nail (either sliced or whole, painted or not with food coloring). Use red gel (messy though) at the nail area or cut area. Hard to see in my pics, but I make them every year.

http://cakecentral.com/modules.php?name=gallery&file=displayimage&pid=1155137

Just a thought, but if they're for kids that are allergic to nuts...what about cutting out the fingernail with a dark colored fruit roll-up? I've made these before and I used strawberry jelly for the blood. I've got a pic of my "bloody fingers" in my photos (pg. 2) if you want to check them out.

Food coloring!!!

ditto! just add a tiny bit of green gel to the dough itself, and VOILA green fingers!

vickymacd, thanx for the great idea on the nutter butter mummies, I've done them as santas at xmas and never thought about making them mummies, too cool !!!

Artese, vicki has a picture of her mummies on her post above, I will try to find you a picture of the santas, they are so easy to make and everybody loves them

Thanks Globalgatherings. I will look through the pics.

Thanks for the mummy comments. I loved making all those cookies.
Who knows if I'll get to it this year. Football sure has me busy!
I'd love to see how those cookies turn into Santas.
Please try to post them! Thanks.

Artese, I don't have any pictures of my nutter butter Santas, but I just googled it for you, Google nutter butter santas, lots of pictures there. I do want to mention tho, I think you stated in a previous post that your baby is allergic to nuts??? If I'm not mistaken, I'm pretty sure nutter butters are peanut butter cookies, but I've never checked the label, so be sure to check it out, I know how serious allergies can be

YES, nutter butters have peanut butter in them!!!

Even though it'd be more expensive, you could use those Milano cookies which are the same shape as nutter butters.

Don't know if anyone still wanted to see what the Santa's looked like, but here they are.

Thank you for the photos. They are sooooooooooooooooooo CUTE! How do you make them? I won't be using the peanut butter cookies b/c of my son. I will use another cooking with the same shape.

ETA: I just looked at the cookies again. Did you just dip the ends in white icing then sprinkle red sugar on them, then pipe on the eyes etc with colored frosting or using candies?