An easy, 10-minute recipe for bloody Halloween Hot Dog Fingers that only requires 2 or 3 ingredients! You'll throw the scariest bash of the year! (Instructions for Mummy Hot Dogs too.)
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⭐ Why This Recipe is a Star
- These Bloody Halloween Hot Dog Fingers are a super easy recipe for the spookiest night of the year: with the ketchup resembling gory blood, Hot Dogs have never been as scary! They're also done in 10 minutes, so perfect for a last-minute gathering!
- Simple, inexpensive ingredients only: you only need hot dog sausages, ketchup and American processed cheese (optional) which are everyday ingredients.
- Fun Halloween food idea: there are so many possibilities! You can erve them as shown, or wrap them in strips of dough to make bleeding Hallowee Mummies! (If it's Mummy Dogs you're after, see Tips below.)
Note: For more terrifying Halloween recipes, such as bleeding lychees eyeballs, click here. Alternatively, if you run more cute than scary at your Halloween party, try these fun trick-or-treat snacks.
🥘 Ingredients
For this easy Halloween recipe, you only need:
- sausages: go for hot dog sausages as their lighter skin resembles human flesh more. (Gross!) Stay away from the expensive German sausages etc as they don't look right for this recipe! If you're out, you could try substituting with Luncheon Meat SPAM fries but they'll be quite tiny fingers!
- ketchup: if you like your food spicy, you can even use Sriracha or sambal! For something more exotic, use this homemade Gochujang Aioli- you'll need to add more Gochujang sauce to make it look redder and more scary! You can get the kids to do the decorating- it's a fun project for the whole family!
- optional, cheese: you can skip these but using them to add fingernails to your severed Halloween hand makes it even more realistically scary!
Tip: You can also cut up onions to make the fingernails, instead of Kraft cheese- this works really well if serving the sausage fingers in hot dog buns.
Alternatively, just make a rectangular cut for the nails- the contrast in sausage flesh and sausage skin colors works well too!
🔪 Step-by-Step Instructions
1a. Place the sausages on a cutting board. Use a sharp knife, such as a paring knife, to carefully cut a rectangle at the bottom of each hot dog finger to resemble a nail bed.
Tip: if you want the sausages to really look like a hand, using your 5 different finger lengths as a guide, cut the sausages into the right sizes.
1b. After that, carefully make 2-3 slits under the "fingernail" and another 2-3 at the joint. You don't have to make a wide slit as the slits will automatically become bigger after boiling. (Again, you can use your own hand as a guide- but be careful when slicing!)
Note: Slice carefully when carving the finger joints- you don't want to accidentally go too deep and cut through the whole sausage!
2a. Cook the sausages: the easiest way is to simply boil for 5 minutes (or till cooked) but you can also grill or pan-fry them.
Note: for extra wrinkly, old skin, boil your sausages for a bit longer.
2b. Optional: cut cheese or onions into small rectangular shapes to resemble nails, then place them onto the "fingerbeds" of the sausages. If not using either, cut out bigger rectangles for the nails- they they look more realistic!
2c. Squeeze a generous amount of ketchup onto the cut side of the sausages to resemble fingers oozing blood!
🥡 How to Store
These are such delicious easy finger foods that there shouldn't be any left!
If there are, keep them in an airtight container in the fridge for 3-4 days. (Check your packaging to see how long the sausages last after cooking.)
To re-heat this perfect Halloween treat, simply microwave or steam. (If you fry them, they'll be blistered fingers.)
👩🏻🍳 Expert Tips
Tip #1: If you want the sausage fingers to be even more realistic, and to bend at the finger joints, microwave the sausages in water at 750W for 3 minutes (or till cooked) after making the slits for the joints. This will make the sausages curl at the slits!
Tip #2: To turn these scary Halloween sausages into a full meal, serve them over a bed of red tomato pasta! Or in hot dog buns- add the ketchup at the cut base of the sausage to better mimic bloody fingers.
Tip #3: To turn them into bloody Hot Dog Mummies, wrap long slices of cheese around each sausage, Mummy-style. Alternatively, use a pizza cutter to cut pizza dough, pie crust or Crescent Roll Dough into long thin strips. Wrap the Pie or Crescent Dough around the sausages, place on parchment paper, then bake till golden brown and cooked for your Halloween Dinner. Serve the wrapped hot dogs with extra red dipping sauce on the side.
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📋 Bloody Halloween Hot Dog Fingers
Equipment
- sharp knife and cutting board
- Pot
Ingredients
- 4 Hot dog sausages
- 3 Tablespoons Ketchup
- Processed cheese Optional. 1 slice can make at least 20 fingernails!
Instructions
- Use a sharp knife, such as a paring knife, to carefully cut a rectangle at the top of each sausage to resemble a nail bed.Tip: if you want the sausages to really look like a hand, using your 5 different finger lengths as a guide, cut the sausages into the right sizes.
- After that, carefully make 2-3 slits under the "fingernail" and another 2-3 at the joint. You don't have to make a wide slit as the slits will automatically become bigger after boiling. (Again, you can use your own hand as a guide- but be careful when slicing!)Note: Slice carefully when carving the finger joints- you don't want to accidentally go too deep and cut through the whole sausage!
- Cook the sausages: I boiled mine for 5 minutes (or till cooked) but you can also grill or pan-fry them.Note: for extra wrinkly, old skin, as per my photo, boil your sausages for a bit longer past cooked.
- Optional: cut cheese or onions into small rectangular shapes to resemble nails, then place them onto the "fingerbeds" of the sausages. If not using, cut out bigger rectangles for the nails- they they look more realistic!
- Squeeze ketchup onto the cut side of the sausages to resemble fingers oozing blood!
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Bella says
These Halloween appetisers were so easy and yummy my kids loved them!
Zen says
So glad your kids liked the bleeding sausages Bella!