Kitchen appliances and utensils
- oven;
- a baking sheet;
- knife;
- plates / bowls for products;
- mixer;
- cling film.
Ingredients
- Butter - 100 g
- Sugar - 100 g
- Vanilla sugar - 0.5 tsp.
- Eggs - 1 pc.
- Flour - 250 g
- Baking powder - 0.5 tsp.
- Salt - 1 pinch
- Dark chocolate to taste
- Almonds - 100 g
- Cocoa - to taste (for decoration)
Step cooking
- Take 100 g of soft butter. Add to them 100 g of sugar and 0.5 tsp. vanilla sugar. Beat with a mixer for about 2 minutes.
- Add 1 egg to the composition and mix everything with a mixer until a homogeneous mass is formed.
- Pour 250 g of flour, 0.5 tsp. Into a separate deep container. baking powder, 1 pinch of salt. Sift half the resulting composition over the cream mixture that was previously prepared. Shuffle everything with a mixer at low speed.
- Add the remaining flour to the composition and proceed to kneading by hand.
- Wrap the finished tight dough with cling film and put in the refrigerator for 30 minutes.
- Melt a small piece of dark chocolate in the microwave.
- To the resulting chocolate add 2 tbsp. l boiling water and mix everything.
- Peel 100 g of almonds from the skins. To do this, fill it with boiling water and leave for 5 minutes. It is very easy to remove the softened peel.
- Remove the dough from the refrigerator, separate half from it, and return the rest to the cold.
- From a cut piece, pinch a small piece of dough and roll it into the shape of a finger.
- Place the fingernails with chocolate and lay the almonds on them.
- Make small cuts in the places of the imaginary bends of the fingers and powder them with cocoa. Through cocoa, you can also make shadows on your fingers for maximum credibility. The last three points must be done with all the remaining test.
- Preheat the oven to 180 degrees and send your cookies to bake for 20 minutes.
Video recipe
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