Witch's Fingers

Danny Beason's Note:

Presented By: Roxann Roberts, The Glass Bazaar

• Total Time: 55 mins
• Prep Time: 30 mins
• Cook Time: 25 mins

Ingredients:

Servings: 12

• 1 cup unsalted butter
• ¾ cup powdered sugar
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• ½ teaspoon salt
• 1 ¾ cups all-purpose flour
• 1 cup ground pecans
• red food coloring (optional)
• blanched almonds or slivered almond (optional)

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 300 degrees.
2. Beat butter and sugar in bowl of heavy duty mixer, until light and fluffy.
3. Add vanilla and salt.
4. Add flour, 1/4 cup at a time, blending after each addition.
5. Stir in pecans.
6. Dough will be heavy.
7. Using 1 heaping tablespoonful per cookie, shape dough into"fingers" about 3 inches long and 1/4 inch in diameter.
8. Place cookies on parchment paper-lined cookie sheet.
9. Using a knife, lightly score"fingers" a few times across the center and near the top to resemble knuckles.
10. "Paint"almonds with food coloring and press into the top of the cookie to resemble a fingernail, if desired.
11. Or make an indentation in the top to resemble a fingernail.
12. Bake for 25 minutes or until lightly brown.

Reviews

[LuvDMB]

I thought they were too salty. Next time, I'll use unsalted butter as well as cutting it down a bit. Some of the rolled out fingers I dipped in sugar before adding the almond slice and that did help. They looked great though!