Witches fingers

Time before Halloween is always busy in our family. I can't sucrifice time enough to prepare good for the big party day. So this year I decided to make something delicious and frightening that can be done quickly. I had a lot of fun to form the fingers. It is just so easy but still yummy and and creepy. Perfect choice for a Halloween party. I was done within 30 minutes including preparation, baking and decoration. Everybody loved it.

Ingredients:

• 125 g flour
• 75 g butter
• 100 g ground almond
• 75 g icing sugar
• 1 egg
• ca. 20-25 pieces of almonds

Directions:

Mix flour, ground almond, icing sugar, butter and egg and with your hands until you get a nice smooth dough. 
Divide it into ca. 20 pieces, roll little balls from them, then form them into a rollers (as long and as thick as your own finger). 
Put the little fingers on baking paper. Press one almond into one end of each cookie to give the appearance of a long fingernail. Form two knuckles (just like on your on hand). 
Take a sharp knife, and cut small rimples into the cookies to get a finger-like appearance. Preheat oven to 180 Celsius digrees (356 F). Bake the cookies for 10 minutes in preheated oven or until the fingers get a slightly golden colour.
Get a pot of red cranberries jam (strawberry might work as well, the point is that the colour of the jam is red). Put the end of the fingers into the jam to have a little bloody outfit to them.