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Ingredients
| 150 g g | Butter
Butter (or margerine) | |
| 75 g g | Sugar
Sugar (caster sugar) | |
| 1 pinches pinch | Salt Salt | |
| 175 g g | Flour
Flour (Self-raising) | |
| Almonds
Almond (blanched) | ||
| 50 g g | Icing Sugar Icing Sugar | |
| Food Colouring
Food Colouring (red) | ||
| Almond extract
Almond extract (1-3 drops) |
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Method
- Pre-heat your oven.
- Mix all of the dry ingredients together except for the blanched almonds.
- Rub in margarine.
- Add extract and mould together with your hands.
- Roll out thinly into finger shapes.
- Mark the dough with some lines to represent the knuckles of the finger with the back of a knife blade in the middle of the biscuit
- Placing a blanched almond on the top of each biscuit, for the nail.
- Cook for 12-15 minutes in a pre-heated oven at 175 ° C.
- Allow to cool on a cake rack.
- Mix icing sugar with a little water until thick, add red food coloring.
- Paint the almonds red.
- Dip the lower end of the fingers into the red icing so that it looks like blood.
