Instructions:
Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Beat together butter, sugar, egg, almond extract and vanilla. Slowly beat in the flour, baking powder and salt.
If you want green finger cookies, add drops of green food coloring to dough until you achieve a nice, deep green color.
Divide the dough into four equal parts, cover and refrigerate for 30 minutes. Take one quarter of the dough at a time from the refrigerator.
Break off one heaping teaspoonful and roll it into a finger shape. Squeeze in around the middle of the finger to create a knuckle shape.
Then, using a butter knife, make indents in several places to resemble a finger. Repeat with rest of dough.
Place cookies on a lightly greased baking sheet and bake for 20-25 minutes; let cool. Then, squeeze red decorating gel onto the tip of each finger and gently press an almond on top so the gel oozes out from underneath.
Remove cookies from baking sheets and let them cool on wire racks.
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