[Sca-cooks] Witch Finger/Almond Shortbread cookies

[Nancy Kiel]

Oughtn't a witch's fingers to be green, a la Margaret Hamilton?



Nancy Kiel
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A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.   Emerson





>From: Ciorstan <ciorstan at attbi.com>
>Reply-To: sca-cooks at ansteorra.org
>To: sca-cooks at ansteorra.org
>Subject: [Sca-cooks] Witch Finger/Almond Shortbread cookies
>Date: Sun, 03 Nov 2002 17:37:26 -0800
>
>I had great success at the office Halloween potluck with the following
>cookies.
>
>I don't like the idea of baking powder in my shortbread (all the recipes
>for a 'Witches' Finger' cookie called for it, ecch), so I made up my own
>recipe.
>
>Thoroughly cream 2 sticks (1/2 lb. or 1 cup) salted butter with 1 cup
>fine granulated sugar. Add 1 1/2 cups ground blanched almonds. Add 1
>egg. Add 2 1/4 c. flour.
>
>Mold in the hands into a finger-length log and smoosh a joint in the
>center. Place on ungreased cookie sheet and heat the oven to 350
>degrees.
>
>Use a whole blanched almond for the nails. Gently press an almond into
>one end of each 'finger.'  The finger neatly spreads under pressure,
>looking just like the spatulate end of a finger with a nail. Bake around
>9 minutes, just before turning golden.
>
>Gently prise off the cookie sheet with the thinnest spatula you have--
>they're delicate. Cool on a rack. Once they're cool, do a manicure on
>half of the fingernails with red gel icing.
>
>Oh, and there's politically correct variants-- dye some of the dough
>with cocoa powder and use black icing for the manicure.
>
>ciorstan
>
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