Halloween Lady Fingers

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Halloween Lady Fingers Ingredients

1 cup butter softened	1 teaspoon baking powder
1 cup sugar	1 teaspoon salt
1 egg	3/4 cup whole blanched almonds
1 teaspoon almond extract	red food coloring
1 teaspoon vanilla extract	and/or 1 tube red decorator gel
2 3/4 cups flour

Instructions for Halloween Lady Fingers

Preheat oven to 325F.
Combine dry ingredients.
Lightly grease a cookie sheet.
In a large bowl, beat together butter, sugar, egg, almond extract and vanilla,
beat in dry ingredients.
Cover and refrigerate dough for 30 minutes.
Working with one-quarter of the dough at a time and keeping remaining dough
refrigerated, roll heaping teaspoons full of dough into finger shape for each cookie.
Press an almond firmly into one end for nail.
Squeeze in center to create a knuckle shape and use a paring knife make
slashes in several places to form knuckle.
If you want to paint the nails, use some red food coloring that's been diluted
with water and brush on with a clean artist's brush.
Place cookies on the prepared cookie sheet and bake for 20-25 minutes
or until pale golden.
Let cool for three minutes.
If desired, lift up almond and
squeeze red decorator gel onto nail bed and press almond back in place so gel oozes out from underneath.
Remove from cookie sheet and let cool on a wire rack.
Repeat with remaining dough.


Main Ingredient: FlourCuisine: Uncategorized

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