We will start by beating the butter at room temperature together with the sugar with a rod mixer. for five minutes. Then add the egg along with the vanilla essence and beat until it has been integrated.
Then we add the flour little by little and we form a soft dough but it does not stick to the fingers, if we see it very dry we add a teaspoon of milk. We make a ball of dough and reserve a while in the fridge to harden a little. Preheat the oven to 170 degrees.
Once the dough is cold, divide the ball into four pieces. With each portion we are making cylinders of dough the size of a finger and placing them on a baking tray lined with baking paper. Once placed on the tray we make with a knife or a skewer the marks of the knuckleswe place the whole almond as a nail and paint them with red dye to be more realistic.
Bake the cookies for fifteen minutes or until we see them slightly golden. Wait for them to cool on the tray before handling them.