Severed Finger Sugar Cookies
The recipe Severed Finger Sugar Cookies could satisfy your Southern craving in roughly 1 hour and 30 minutes. This dessert has 102 calories, 0g of protein, and 1g of fat per serving. This recipe covers 1% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. This recipe serves 24. Christmas will be even more special with this recipe. If you have strawberry jam, betty sugar cookie mix, food color, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it. It is a good option if you're following a gluten free, dairy free, and fodmap friendly diet.
Instructions
Heat oven to 350F. Line cookie sheets with cooking parchment paper or silicone baking mats.
In medium bowl, mix cookie mix and egg, using fork or spatula, until well mixed and texture of sand or bread crumbs. Squeeze handful of dough crumbs together tightly to form small log or "finger." Score top of log with butter knife to shape the knuckle, then press 1 slivered almond at one end to make the fingernail. Repeat to use up dough. Refrigerate 30 minutes.
Bake 15 minutes. Cool completely, about 30 minutes.
Meanwhile, in small bowl, mix jam and food color with whisk. Trim base of finger with fork to give it a severed look. Dip base of finger into jam.
Recommended wine: Riesling, Sparkling Wine, Zinfandel
Southern on the menu? Try pairing with Riesling, Sparkling Wine, and Zinfandel. In general, there are a few rules that will help you pair wine with southern food. Food-friendly riesling or sparkling white wine will work with many fried foods, while zinfandel is great with barbecued fare. The J.J. Prum Graacher Himmelreich Spatlese Riesling with a 4.2 out of 5 star rating seems like a good match. It costs about 56 dollars per bottle.
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J.J. Prum Graacher Himmelreich Spatlese Riesling
"A tad reduced in aroma, this young white has plenty of intensity, offering lime, peach and slate flavors matched to a silky texture. It's awkward today, needing time to integrate. Best from 2008 through 2020. 1,500 cases made." –BS