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    Home » Bread

    Published: Oct 25, 2024 by Desarae

    Witch Finger Breadsticks

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    Buttery, fluffy and super spooky (yet crazy fast and easy) Witch Finger Breadsticks! The entire family will devour the entire batch in no time. They are THAT good.

    WHAT INGREDIENTS DO I NEED FOR WITCH FINGER BREADSTICKS?

    • flour
    • yeast
    • sugar
    • warm water
    • salt
    • almonds (sliced or whole)
    • butter
    • garlic salt

    HOW TO MAKE HALLOWEEN BREAD

    You can shape the dough into many halloween shapes and form, but witches fingers is one of the fastest and realistic. It's also a great side for whatever dinner you are making for your fun yet busy halloween night!

    BREADSTICK DOUGH

    What I love about this recipe is how simple and fast the dough is! Most bread recipes require hours of rising and lots of kneading. However, for this recipe you don't have to do that! This recipe-start to finish- will be done in less than an hour.

    HOW TO MAKE THE BEST BREADSTICK DOUGH

    1. Add warm water and yeast to bowl. Let the yeast begin to poof.
    2. You can stir in sugar after a few minutes to help the feed the yeast.
    3. Turn on your stand mixer and start mixing while you add in your flour and remaining dough ingredients.
    4. You will want the dough to kneed for about 4 minutes.
    5. Cover with a clean towel and let it rise.

    PROTIP: you know your dough is looking good when it is nice and elastic. The sides pull away from the bowl, but in your fingers its still sticky.

    ROLLING OUT THE DOUGH

    Now that the dough has risen it is time to roll and cut the breadsticks.

    1. place the dough on a lightly floured surface to avoid sticking.
    2. Roll it into a rectangle about the size of a jelly roll pan. You want the dough to be about ½ inch thick.
    3. Using a pizza cutter slice the dough up into about 1 inch wide slices.
    4. Pour melted butter onto your jelly roll pan
    5. dip both sides of finger dough into pan and evenly space them out.
    6. They will rise so not too close.

    ADD THE FINGERNAILS

    Add your almonds now to the ends of the breadsticks. If you forget it is ok to add them after the second rise. I prefer to add them before they rise so the dough can form around them as they rise and better hold them in place.

    WHAT DO I USE FOR THE FINGERNAILS

    I LOVE using almonds. Sliced almonds or whole almonds are great. I prefer the whole almonds for because they tend to stay on better plus slivered almonds you really have to pick through the whole bag to find slices that are not broken. I did not find enough whole sliced almond pieces to fit all my breadsticks in the bag. So keep that in mind when deciding the kind of almonds. It might take 2 bags of sliced almonds to find enough whole pieces. 

    BAKING THE BREADSTICKS

    Now that the breadsticks and fluffed up one more time put them in the oven and cook until they are a light golden brown. Get your butter and seasoning prepared while they are cooking.

    THE SEASONINGS

    While your breadsticks are cooking melt butter and add garlic salt. I like to brush this on right when they come out to help all the flavor infuse EVERYWHERE.

    WHAT KIND OF SEASONINGS TO I PUT ON TOP?

    This is something you can customize! I like to do a couple of TBS of butter + garlic salt and course salt. Here are some other ideas

    • butter, garlic salt and powder parmesan cheese
    • butter and garlic salt and dried parsley
    • butter, garlic salt and onion salt

    FINGERNAIL POPPED OFF! GOT A SOLUTION?

    I DO! I have found a little dab of peanut butter will stick that nail right back on. If the nails are staying on a platter it works really great! if you are moving them around they still might slide a little, but its an easy fix.

    HOW DO I STORE LEFTOVER WITCH FINGER BREADSTICKS?

    Store them in an airtight container or bag. They should keep for a few days like that. You can reheat them in the microwave or just pull them out to snack on.

    WHAT CAN I SERVE THESE WITCH FINGERS WITH?

    Breadsticks are so fun to serve with a dipping sauce like

    • marinara
    • warm alfredo sauce
    • cheese sauce

    Or you can dip them in a warm soup like

    • chili
    • creamy cheddar cauliflower 
    • tomato basil

    If you tried these Witch Fingers Breadsticks or any other recipe on the blog then don’t forget to rate the recipe and leave us a comment below. You can also follow us on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Pinterest to see what else we’re getting up to!

    witch finger being dipped into a bowl of marinara sauce

    Witch Fingers Breadsticks

    These witch fingers breadsticks are the perfect spooky halloween treat for any party and get together! This recipe is quick, easy and so delicious!
    4.84 from 6 votes
    Print Rate
    Course: Snack
    Cuisine: American
    Prep Time: 40 minutes minutes
    Cook Time: 10 minutes minutes
    Total Time: 50 minutes minutes
    Servings: 12 servings
    Calories: 124kcal
    Author: Kadee & Desarae

    Ingredients

    • 1 ½ cups of warm water
    • 3 cups flour about
    • 1 Tablespoon yeast
    • ½ teaspoon salt
    • 2 Tablespoon sugar
    • almonds

    Instructions

    • In bowl mix warm water and yeast. Make sure yeast is good by letting it sit for a couple minutes and rise.
    • Add sugar and salt. Start mixing and add flour till it is smooth and elastic.
    • Let rise for 10 minutes in the bowl.
    • Melt 1 cube of butter and pour in edged cookie sheet.
    • Roll dough out in rectangle about the same size as the cookie sheet. Cut in 1" wide x 4" long strips using a pizza cutter. Roll in the butter, and then place on cookie sheet.
    • Press almonds in one end of breadstick.
    • Sprinkle with your favorite toppings such as: garlic salt, parmesan, parsley flakes, italian seasonings, seasoning salts.
    • Let rise for 15-20 minutes more on the pan and then bake at 350 deg for about 10 minutes. Until the edges are just starting to turn a beautiful golden brown.

    Video

    [adthrive-in-post-video-player video-id="txLDsybp" upload-date="2019-10-28T15:29:27.000Z" name="witches fingers" description="Witches fingers breadsticks"]

    Nutrition

    Serving: 1breadstick | Calories: 124kcal | Carbohydrates: 26g | Protein: 3g | Sodium: 99mg | Potassium: 42mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 2g | Calcium: 6mg | Iron: 1.5mg
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    Reader Interactions

    Comments

    1. Rbk says

      October 20, 2024 at 5:47 pm

      I tried this recipe and would appreciate knowing what is the baking temperature? It’s not listed.
      Also the dried yeast didn’t seem to activate even after proofing.
      I tried agave and honey but it rose a bit but not much. There are some details I’d appreciate knowing more to make this recipe a sucesss
      Thanks

      Reply
      • Kadee says

        October 21, 2024 at 2:25 pm

        Hi Rbk, I checked the recipe card and the temperature is listed there. I'm not sure if you just missed it? The recipe card at the bottom of the post is where all of the details are.

        As far as the yeast - if your yeast didn't proof, it is dead. And I'm so sorry. I've had this happen to me. And in that case - you need to throw out and get new yeast.

        Reply
    2. Kenna Crutch says

      August 21, 2022 at 12:58 pm

      Hi there! I know this is somewhat off topic but I was wondering which blog platform are you using for this site? I'm getting tired of Wordpress because I've had problems with hackers and I'm looking at options for another platform. I would be awesome if you could point me in the direction of a good platform.

      Reply
      • Desarae says

        August 21, 2022 at 6:50 pm

        we aren't any help! we are on Wordpress too. That's really scary about hackers!!

        Reply
    3. Sally says

      October 27, 2021 at 4:21 pm

      4 stars
      The smell of buttery, fresh baked witches finger breadsticks was delightful!
      A few things: my batch of dough required two cookie sheets to bake them all and I could have even used another, to space them out more. They took at least 25 minutes to bake, not 10. The almonds do fall off easily. Peanut butter wouldn't be ideal for my purposes, I served them with buffalo chicken dip. I'd prefer another way to secure the almonds. I slashed knuckle grooves just before baking and most were still visible after baked. They looked really fun for our Halloween potluck.

      Reply
    4. Sophie says

      October 21, 2020 at 9:36 pm

      5 stars
      the kids loved these! I agree and totally used the whole almonds. They stayed on way better.

      Reply
    5. Ella says

      October 21, 2020 at 9:36 pm

      5 stars
      just made these and cannot get over the warm buttery fluffiness.

      Reply
    6. Emily Kemp says

      May 22, 2018 at 5:33 am

      5 stars
      These are so much fun, great idea!

      Reply
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