• Cooking Time: 20 Minutes
• 1 C. Butter
• 1 C. Confectioners Icing Sugar
• 1 Egg
• 1 tsp Baking Powder
• 1 tsp Salt
• 2 3/4 C. Flour ( a Tablespoon or more at higher elevations)
• Several tubes of clear red icing gel
• Whole Baking almonds with skin on

1. Preheat oven to 325*
2. Cream butter and sugar
3. Mix in egg
4. Combine baking powder, salt and flour and add about 1 cup at a time to butter mixture until everything is combined.
5. Chill dough in fridge for about 1 hour
6. Once chilled, shape dough into witches fingers and place on baking sheet
7. Place almond as finger nail on each cookie
8. Bake at 325* for 20 minutes
9. Keep dough in fridge between shaping/baking times so it doesn't get too soft
10. When cookies cool, remove almond nails one at a time, place red gel under nail and refasten.

This is a traditional Halloween cookie my Mom makes every October. These spooky shortbread cookies are not only great looking, but great tasting too.