Witch Finger Pretzel Rods

components

• 28 blanched almonds (see observe)
• 1 tube black gel food coloring
• 14 massive pretzel rods
• 12 oz brilliant-inexperienced sweet coating

Steps to Make It

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Make the Fingernails

1. Use a small food-safe paintbrush to paint the top of each almond with black gel meals coloring. (put on meals-secure gloves if you need to avoid getting your fingertips dyed black asproperly.)
2. Set aside on waxed paper or parchment paper to dry while you put together the rest of the recipe.

Make the palms

1. ruin or cut every pretzel rod in half.
2. place the green sweet coating in a small however deep microwave-secure bowl (or heatproof cup) and microwave in 30-2d increments, stirring after each 30 seconds to save you overheating and burning. Stir and warmth till the sweet coating is absolutely melted and clean.
3. conserving a pretzel rod with the aid of the unbroken stop, dip it in the green coating till nearly all of it's far covered, leaving about a half of-inch segment undipped on the pinnacle in which you are preserving it.
4. region the dipped pretzel at the equal covered baking sheet you used to dry the black candy-covered almond nails and right now press one of them on the tip of the pretzel rod that is coated in inexperienced sweet coating.

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1. hold to dip greater pretzels and, while you do, keep an eye fixed on the already-dipped pretzels. while the coating has started out to dry and is mainly matte however no longer completely hard, it's time to feature the wrinkles for the knuckles.
2. Take a toothpick and hold it perpendicular to the pretzels. lightly roll it across the top to feature wrinkles. Make two units—one set close to the fingernail, and one set approximately halfway down the finger. this could make your witch finger top notch practical-looking. If the coating is simply too melted and sticky while you attempt, give it a few more minutes to set before attempting again.
3. After all the pretzels had been dipped and adorned, refrigerate the tray for 10 mins to set the coating absolutely. After that, the witch fingers may be served on a celebration tray or be standing up in a mason jar.
4. Recipe pointers and versions
5. in case you can not locate blanched almonds, take whole, pores and skin-on almonds and location them in a pan of boiling water for 1 minute. Drain the almonds, allow them to cool slightly, then pinch the nuts among your arms—the skins must slip proper off. 
6. in case you don't need to apply almonds painted with meals coloring, substituting chocolate-dipped almonds or uncoated almonds is an clean and scrumptious change.
7. And if nuts are an issue, instead of almonds, make the nails out of sweet corn dipped in chocolate or painted with black gel food coloring, or use black licorice reduce to shape and stick them on with a dab of melted candy coating.
8. Witches arms can be saved in an hermetic box at room temperature for up to one month.