Halloween Finger Cookie Recipe

Halloween Finger Cookie Recipe - Festivals Ceremony and Celebrations
Ingredients
* 1 cup Butter, softened
* 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 Almonds, blanched
* 1 tube of Red Decorator Food Gel
Method
* Put butter, egg, almond extract, vanilla and sugar in a bowl and beat
them well.
* Mix flour, baking soda and salt in a bowl and add them to the earlier
mixture.
* 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 out only one quarter of the dough at a time, while keeping the
rest of it in the fridge and shape finger-shaped cookies from it.
* Create knuckles by squeezing the dough and create the wrinkles on the
knuckle by 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 turn
pale-golden.
* Let the cookies cool down on the racks, for 3 minutes.
* For a more-gory look, you can make use of the red gel.
* Lift up almond; squeeze red decorator gel onto nail bed and press
almond back in place, so the fake blood seems to ooze out.
* Makes about five dozen cookies.