Monsters Toes Recipes

FRANKENSTEIN'S MONSTER'S TOES

Steps:

• In large bowl, stir cookie mix, flour, melted butter, egg, almond extract and green food color until soft dough forms. Cover; refrigerate 1 hour.
• Meanwhile, place almonds and red food color in resealable food-storage plastic bag; shake bag until almonds are evenly coated with food color. Place on paper plate or waxed paper to dry. Set aside.
• Heat oven to 375°F. For each cookie, roll heaping teaspoonful of dough into 2 1/2-inch finger shape. On ungreased cookie sheets, place shapes 2 inches apart.
• Press almond, colored side up, into one end of each "toe" to look like toenail. About 1 inch from each end of each "toe," squeeze dough slightly; with knife, gently make lines in dough to look like knuckles.
• Bake 6 to 8 minutes or until set. (Cookies should not brown along edges.) Cool 1 minute; remove from cookie sheets to cooling racks. Cool completely, about 15 minutes.

MONSTER TOES (BREAKFAST/BRUNCH VERSION)

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F.
• Prepare the sausage according to package directions.
• Meanwhile, cut each flour tortilla into 10 thin strips.
• Halve the sausage links when they are done cooking.
• Leaving the rounded edge of the sausage link visible, begin wrapping about 1/3 of the way down from this edge with a tortilla strip. Wrap "messily," not all on top of itself, so that it looks like a mummy bandage.
• Pin the tortilla strip in place using a toothpick through the tortilla and sausage.
• Bake about 5 minutes.
• Remove "toes" from oven and immediately stick an almond into the top of the rounded edge of the sausage link, as though it was a creepy, broken toenail.
• Enjoy! They are good plain or with some maple syrup for dipping!

GRUESOME MONSTER TOES

Steps:

• In a microwave-safe bowl, melt candy coating; stir until smooth. Tint green.
• Dip one cookie into candy coating. Let excess drip off and place on waxed paper.
• Immediately place candy half, cut side down, on the cookie. Repeat. Let stand for 15 minutes or until set.