Severed Finger Cookies
Posted On 29 October 2021
Being Halloween I really should’ve made these instead of the brownie cookies but oh well. Had this recipe around forever. Used to make it every year to take to the office.
Severed Finger Cookies
A great Halloween treat
Ingredients
- 1 cup butter, softened
- 1 cup powdered sugar
- 1 egg
- 1 teaspoon almond extract
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 2⅔ cups flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoons sea salt
- ¾ cups whole, blanched almonds
- red decorating gel
Instructions
- In bowl, beat together butter, sugar, egg, almond extract and vanilla. Beat in flour, baking powder, and salt. Cover and refrigerate 30 minutes.
- Heat oven to 325°F / 160°C
- Working with one quarter of the dough at a time and keeping remainder refrigerated, roll heaping teaspoonful of dough into finger shape for each cookie. Press half-almond firmly into one end to act as a finger-nail.
- Squeeze in center to create knuckle shape. Using paring knife, make slashes in several places to form knuckle wrinkles. (Look at your own finger.)
- Place on lightly-greased or parchment-lined baking sheets.
- Bake for 20-25 minutes or until pale golden.
- Let cool for 3-5 minutes.
- Lift up the almond and squeeze red decorator gel onto the nail bed and press almond back into place so that the gel oozes out a bit.
- Put more red icing on the severed end of the finger.
- Repeat until all dough is baked.