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    Home » Festive Asian Recipes » Halloween

    Published: Oct 12, 2022 · Modified: Nov 21, 2022 by Zen · This post may contain affiliate links.

    Bloody Halloween Hot Dog Fingers

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    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!

    A plate of bloody, wrinkled, severed, Halloween sausage fingers.
    Extra wrinkly sausages for extra scary old people severed bleeding fingers!
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    • ⭐ Why This Recipe is a Star
    • 🥘 Ingredients
    • 🔪 Step-by-Step Instructions
    • 🥡 How to Store
    • 👩🏻‍🍳 Expert Tips
    • 🥗 Other Halloween Recipes
    • 📋 Bloody Halloween Hot Dog Fingers
    • 💬 Comments

    ⭐ Why This Recipe is a Star

    1. 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!
    2. Simple, inexpensive ingredients only: you only need hot dog sausages, ketchup and American processed cheese (optional) which are everyday ingredients.

    For more terrifying Halloween recipes, such as bleeding lychees eyeballs, click here. Alternatively, if you run more cute than scary, try these fun trick-or-treat snacks.

    🥘 Ingredients

    A boiled sausage, some ketchup and a slice of cheese on a white plate.

    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!
    • 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 leave make a rectangular cut for the nails- the contrast in sausage flesh and sausage skin colors works well too!

    🔪 Step-by-Step Instructions

    Making slices in sausages with my own hand as a guide.
    The deep cut is where the sausage is severed and the shallower cuts are to mark the knuckles.
    1. 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.
    2. 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.
    3. 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!

    Using my fingers as a guide for how  long to make Halloween sausage fingers.
    For the lengths of the 3rd and 4th fingers, you insert the sausage in between your fingers and cut at the top of your fingernail (not at the base of your finger, unlike what we did in the previous photo.)

    4. 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, boil your sausages for a bit longer.

    5. 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!

    6. Squeeze ketchup onto the cut side of the sausages to resemble fingers oozing blood!

    🥡 How to Store

    These are such easy finger foods that there shouldn't be any left! If there are, keep them in an airtight container in the fridge for 2-3 days.

    To re-heat, 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 bandaged mummy sausages, wrap long slices of cheese around each sausage, a la Mummy-style. Alternatively, wrap them in leftover threads of pie crust then bake till cooked.

    🥗 Other Halloween Recipes

    • Many brain-shaped cookies lined up next to each other.
      12 Creepy Halloween Recipes
    • Close-up of Rest In Peace signs on a graveyard brownie Halloween dessert.
      18 Halloween Dessert Table Recipes
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    Enjoyed this easy bloody finger Hot Dogs Recipe? Please leave a 5-star 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟rating in the recipe card below! If you REALLY liked this Halloween dish, please consider supporting it by buying me a coffee! 🙂 (No obligation though!) Thank you and have a great day!

    5 severed sausages with ketchup which look like bloody fingers.

    📋 Bloody Halloween Hot Dog Fingers

    Zen
    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!
    5 from 8 votes
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    Course Appetizer, Breakfast, Side Dish
    Cuisine American
    Calories 245 kcal

    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!

    Notes

    For more realistic bleeding fingers
    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!
    To turn into a full meal
    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.
    Variation: To turn them into bloody bandaged mummy sausages, wrap long slices of cheese around each sausage, a la Mummy-style. Alternatively, wrap them in leftover threads of pie crust then bake till cooked.
     
    Note: the nutritional information is an estimate automatically calculated using the WPRM recipe maker and I am not responsible for its accuracy.

    Nutrition

    Calories: 245kcalCarbohydrates: 28gProtein: 28gFat: 2gSaturated Fat: 0.01gPolyunsaturated Fat: 0.02gMonounsaturated Fat: 0.01gSodium: 2128mgPotassium: 126mgFiber: 4gSugar: 18gVitamin A: 231IUVitamin C: 2mgCalcium: 7mgIron: 8mg
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    1. Bella says

      October 12, 2022 at 12:01 pm

      5 stars
      These Halloween appetisers were so easy and yummy my kids loved them!

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      • Zen says

        October 20, 2022 at 7:19 am

        So glad your kids liked the bleeding sausages Bella!

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