🩸 Severed Hand Halloween Snack Board

severed prosciutto hand on cutting board with grapes and sharp knife

🩸 Severed Hand Halloween Snack Board

Frighten your loved ones with our super scary Severed Hand Halloween Snack Board! It's both gross AND delicious...the perfect way to celebrate Halloween!

Course Appetizer, Snack

Cuisine American

Total Time 28

Calories 1667.8kcal

Author Marcie & Julie

Equipment

2 sheets wax paper or parchment paper
1 permanent marker
1 small spatula or flat utensil for spreading cheese

Ingredients

8 oz cream cheese soft enough to mold
5 oz herbed goat cheese soft enough to mold
4 oz prosciutto (or really thinly sliced salami)
3 sticks string cheese cut lengthwise in half
5 long strips roasted red peppers
3 pitted green olives cut in half

Instructions

Mash together the cream cheese & goat cheese in a small bowl. Set aside.
Trace a hand on wax paper. Then place another sheet of paper on top (you can see the tracing through it), tacking both down with something heavy on the sides. Using a small spatula or flat utensil, spread half the cheese mix inside your hand tracing.
Lay down a strip of roasted red pepper along each finger, going into the hand, followed by a piece of halved string cheese. Fill in empty spaces on the hand with extra pieces of string cheese as necessary.
Carefully spread remaining cheese on top of the hand, to completely cover the peppers and cheese sticks. Drape prosciutto over the hand and fingers, so all the cheese is covered. Tuck the prosciutto under the edges of hand and fingers.
Push lightly into the tip of each finger to create divots for the fingernails. Then add one olive half to each divot.
Put hand in refrigerator until ready to serve. Serve severed hand on a plate or platter with crackers and fruit.

Notes

- If able, take the soft cheeses out of the fridge 1 hour ahead of time. If your cheese is still too firm, microwave it in very small increments of time, like 10 seconds.

- Here's the opposite advice: keep prosciutto in the fridge right up until it's time to use it. Prosciutto is so thin and pliable that as it warms, it gets harder to handle.

- Find something heavy to hold down your wax paper so it doesn't slide around. I used some pumpkins we got at a pumpkin patch - functional & festive! 🎃

- Use a small spatula to help sculpt your hand. Run it along the tracing of the hand to help separate the fingers and set all the cheese in place.

- Presentation tip: tuck the prosciutto under the cheese a little so you have cleaner lines.

- Refrigerate your prosciutto hand for at least 10 minutes before serving. This helps firm up the cheese so it's a lot easier to transfer to an actual plate.

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