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5 severed sausages with ketchup which look like bloody fingers.
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5 from 9 votes

📋 Bloody Halloween Hot Dog Fingers

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!
Course: Appetizer, Breakfast, Side Dish
Cuisine: American
Calories: 245kcal
Author: Zen

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: 245kcal | Carbohydrates: 28g | Protein: 28g | Fat: 2g | Saturated Fat: 0.01g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 0.02g | Monounsaturated Fat: 0.01g | Sodium: 2128mg | Potassium: 126mg | Fiber: 4g | Sugar: 18g | Vitamin A: 231IU | Vitamin C: 2mg | Calcium: 7mg | Iron: 8mg