Halloween Witch Finger Molded Pan Cookies - NO FUSS

Ingredients

• 1 cup softened butter
• 1 1/2 cups granulated sugar
• 1 egg
• 1/2 teaspoon almond extract
• 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
• 1-2 t green food coloring (depends on how green you want them- I used gel type and it took less)
• 2 3/4 cups all purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1 teaspoon salt (1/4 to 1/2 teaspoon if salted butter)
• 2 Tablespoons cocoa powder
• Almonds (optional)

Instructions

• Lightly apply cooking spray or vegetable oil (I use my butter
  wrapper)


• Beat butter and sugar in a large bowl until light and fluffy.


• Blend in egg, vanilla and almond extracts.


• Divide the mixture into two bowls in equal amounts


• Add green food coloring to one of of bowls, mix


• In a third bowl, combine flour, baking powder and salt, toss
  lightly with a fork.


• Separate the dry ingredients evenly as you did the wet ingredients


• Mix in 2 Tablespoons of cocoa to one of the flour separations


• Add thebowl of the dry ingredients with no cocoa to one green wet mixture a
  cup at a time, mix till absorbed after each dump.


• Mix the cocoa dry ingredients and non colored wet remaining ingredients together in the same way.


• You should have two batches of dough, one cocoa and one green.


• Start with the green dough


• Press the green dough into wells (cavities) of molded cookie pan
  about 2/3 full


• Bake 8 to 10 minutes or until light brown around the edges


• The reason to make the green dough batch first is so you can
  gauge how long they need to be in the oven as the cocoa batch will look
  brown sooner.


• Remove from oven and let cool about 10-15 minutes


• Place a flat cookie sheet or plastic cutting mat over the top of the cookie
  pan and flip over, place down on counter top. Lightly tap to remove cookie.  I'm giving
  you this tip because the first time I used these kind of pans, I
  flipped them over without doing the above, and well, lets just say, the dogs got a Halloween
  treat!


• Let the witch fingers cool completely on a wire rack or wax
  paper.  I flip them over after a few minutes if using wax paper,
  so they are evenly cooled.