Recipe: Appetizing Frightening Fingers

Frightening Fingers.

You can cook Frightening Fingers using 10 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Frightening Fingers

1. It’s 1 cup of butter, softened.
2. Prepare 1 cup of confectioner's sugar.
3. It’s 1 of egg.
4. You need 1 tsp of vanilla extract.
5. You need 1 tsp of almond extract.
6. You need 2 3/4 cup of all-purpose flour.
7. It’s 1 tsp of baking powder.
8. Prepare 1 tsp of salt.
9. You need 1 of Red decorating gel.
10. You need 1/2 cup of sliced almonds.

Frightening Fingers step by step

1. In a mixing bowl, cream butter and sugar. Beat in the egg and extracts..
2. Combine the flour, baking powder and salt; gradually add to the creamed mixture..
3. Divide dough into fourths. cover and refrigerate for 30 minutes or until easy to handle..
4. Working with one piece of dough at a time, roll into 1-in. balls..
5. Shape balls into 3-in. x 1/2-in. fingers. Using the flat tip of a table knife, make an indentation on one end of each for fingernail..
6. With a knife, make three slashes in the middle of each finger for knuckle..
7. Place 2 in. apart on lightly greased baking sheets. Bake at 325* for 20-25 minutes or until lightly browned..
8. Cool for 3 minutes. Sqweeze a small amount of red gel on nail bed; press a sliced almond over gel for nail, allowing gel to ooze around nail. Remove to wire racks to cool..
9. Yield: about 5 dozen cookies..