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- 1 cup softened butter,
- 1 cup icing sugar,
- 1 Egg
- 1 tsp Almond extract,
- 1 tsp Vanilla,
- 2 2/3 cups Flour,
- 1 tsp baking powder,
- 1 tsp salt,
- 3/4 cup whole blanched almonds,
- 1 tube of red decorator food gel.
Method:
- Put butter, egg, almond extract, vanilla and sugar in a bowl and beat them.
- Mix flour, baking soda and salt and beat the ingredients some more until they blend together well.
- Cover the bowl and put it in the refrigerator for about half an hour.
- Take only one quarter of the dough at a time while rest of it is still in the fridge and shape finger-shaped cookies from it.
- Create knuckles by squeezing the dough and create the wrinkles on the knuckle using the knife.
- Use an almond as a nail at the end of your finger.
- Lightly grease the baking sheets and place the cookies on them.
- Bake them at 325oF or 160oC for 20 to 25 minutes or till, they are pale golden.
- Let the cookies cool for 3 minutes on racks.
- For a more gory look, you can lift up the almonds and squeeze red gel into the nail bed and replace the almond as if the blood is oozing out of it.
- Lift up almond; squeeze red decorator gel onto nail bed and press almond back in place, so blood seems to ooze out.
- Makes about five dozen cookies.
