Frightful Finger Cookies
"Halloween cookies"
- Ready In:
- 45mins
- Ingredients:
- 8
- Serves:
-
24
ingredients
- 1 cup unsalted butter
- 3⁄4 cup powdered sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1⁄2 teaspoon salt
- 1 3⁄4 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 cup ground pecans
- red food coloring, and
- blanched almond (optional)
directions
- Preheat oven to 300°F
- Line cookie sheets with parchment paper.
- Beat butter and sugar in bowl of electric mixer until light and fluffy.
- Add vanilla and salt.
- Add flour, 1/4 cup at a time, blending well after each addition.
- Stir in pecans.
- Using 1 heaping tablespoonful per cookie, shape dough into "fingers" about 3 inches long and 3/4 inch in diameter.
- Place dough on prepared cookie sheet.
- Using a knife, lightly score fingers a few times across center and near top to resemble knuckles.
- Paint almonds with food coloring and press into top of each cookie to resemble fingernail.
- Optionaly you can make an indentation in of cookie top to resemble a fingernail.
- Bake 25 minutes or until lightly brown.
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RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
Alia55
Canada
After several floods to my basement, I am starting to input all of the many many recipes that I've been collecting for years. I didn't realize just how many I had saved up... must make note to self.. step away from the cookbooks!
