In a large bowl, cream together butter, sugar and egg. Then add the flour baking powder and salt. If you are adding green food coloring add a few drops now until it reaches your desired green. Refrigerate for 30 minutes. Roll heaping tablespoons of dough into finger shape for each cookie. Press almond firmly into one end for the nail. Squeeze in center to create knuckle shape; using a paring knife or toothpick, make several places to form knuckle.
Scoop out a portion of dough. Roll the dough into the shape of a finger.
Place a blanched almond on the tip of the finger and press it in slightly. Shape the tip of the finger around the almond. Make an indentation where you think a knuckle would be on a witch.
Using a toothpick or tip of a knife, make lines in the finger to recreate the wrinkles in finger.
Place the fingers on a cookie sheet.
Place in a preheated 325-degree oven and bake for 20-25 minutes or until beginning to lightly brown. Let cool for 3 minutes.
Lift up almond; squeeze red decorator gel onto nail bed and press almond back into place, so gel oozes out from underneath. Let cool. If you only use 1 teaspoon of dough, you will get about 4 dozen cookies.
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