Frightening Finger Cookies
Ingredients:
1 cup butter, softened
1 cup powdered sugar
1 egg
1 teaspoon almond extract
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2¾ cups flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
¼ cup almond slices
1 tube red decorating gel
1 tube green food coloring
Directions:
- Preheat oven to 325°. Beat together butter, sugar, egg, almond extract and vanilla.
- Slowly beat in the flour, baking powder and salt.
- Add drops of green food coloring to dough until you achieve a nice deep green color.
- Divide the dough into four equal parts, cover and refrigerate for 30 minutes.
- Take one quarter of the dough at a time from the refrigerator.
- Break off one heaping teaspoonful and roll it into a finger shape.
- Squeeze in around the middle of the finger to create a knuckle shape.
- Using a butter knife, make indents in several places to resemble a finger.
- Repeat with rest of dough.
- Place cookies on a lightly greased baking sheet and bake for 20–25 minutes.
- Let cool.
- Squeeze red decorating gel onto the tip of each finger and gently press an almond sliver on top so the gel oozes out from underneath.
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