Ladies fingers (almond biscuits)

Preparation

1. Pre-heat your oven.
2. Mix all of the dry ingredients together except for the blanched almonds.
3. Rub in margarine.
4. Add extract and mould together with your hands.
5. Roll out thinly into finger shapes.
6. Mark the dough with some lines to represent the knuckles of the finger with the back of a knife blade in the middle of the biscuit
7. Placing a blanched almond on the top of each biscuit, for the nail.
8. Cook for 12-15 minutes in a pre-heated oven at 175 ° C.
9. Allow to cool on a cake rack.
10. Mix icing sugar with a little water until thick, add red food coloring.
11. Paint the almonds red.
12. Dip the lower end of the fingers into the red icing so that it looks like blood.