Cookie Bears recipe

These are bear cookies that can be made without a mold.
No matter where you cut the dough, a bear face will show up!

Chocolate cookie bears Recipe

ingredients

The measuring cups used are all the type that is used in the US.

1cup=236ml

White cookie dough

100g(about 1cup＝3,5oz ) cake flour

80g(1/3cup+1table spoon＝2,8oz) granulated sugar

60g(2,1oz) butter(room temperature)

10g(2table spoons=0,4oz) almond powder

1egg yolk(room temperature)

Cocoa cookie dough

85g(1/3cup+1/3cup＝3oz ) cake flour

15g(2table spoons cocoa powder (Unused sugar)

80g(1/3cup+1table spoon＝2,8oz) granulated sugar

60g(2,1oz) butter(room temperature)

10g(2table spoons=0,4oz) almond powder

1egg yolk(room temperature)

Optional

Chocolate

Directions

1. Measure all the ingredients.
Make the white cookie dough.

Bring butter to room temperature to soften it, place it in a bowl, and use a spatula to mix it until it reaches a creamy consistency. Add the granulated sugar one third at a time and mix well every time.

2. Add the egg yolks, which should have been brought to room temperature in advance, and mix well.Add the almond powder and mix well.

3. Finally, add the flour and mix until incorporated, gather the dough together and wrap it with plastic wrap.

4. Make the cocoa cookie dough.
The first two steps are the same as for the white cookie dough.
After adding the almond powder, add cocoa powder and mix well.

Finally, add the flour and mix until incorporated, gather the dough together and wrap it with plastic wrap.

5. Shape the dough.
Take two pieces of about 20 grams(0,7oz) from the cocoa dough and round them.
Round the rest of the dough in one single piece as shown in the picture.

6. Put the big piece of cocoa dough on plastic wrap. Roll it out with a rolling pin to a length of about 15 cm(5,9in), then roll it starting from one side and adjust the shape. Keep it in the plastic wrap while you adjust the shape.

Place a small piece of cocoa dough on plastic wrap and roll it out with your hands into a string of about 15 cm(5,9in) in length. Make two of these.
Place the big and small pieces of cocoa dough wrapped in plastic wrap in the freezer.

7. Take a piece of 20 grams(0,7oz) out of the white cookie dough and round it.
Round the rest of the dough in one single piece.

Place the small piece of white cookie dough on plastic wrap and roll it out with your hands into a string of about 15 cm(5,9in) in length.

Place the big piece of white cookie dough on plastic wrap and roll it out with a rolling pin so it will measure 20 cm/7,9in (vertically) by 15 cm /5,9in (horizontally.)

8. Take the cocoa dough out of the freezer and unwrap it.
Place the white cookie dough string at the center of the top of the big roll of cocoa dough.
Place a string of cocoa dough at each side of the white dough.

Place the above on the big piece of white dough and roll starting from one side.
Wrap it in plastic wrap and cool it in the fridge for more than one hour.
After you wrap the dough, make sure that you keep it so that the string shaped dough parts will be on top.

9. Preheat the oven to 150 degrees Celsius(about 300F degrees Fahrenheit.)
Take the dough out of the fridge and slice it in 18 pieces.
Place a cooking sheet on an oven plate, put the cookies on top, bake for 20 minutes and let them cool down on a rack.
You can put chocolate on the cookies when you bake them, according to your liking.
Personally I like them better with chocolate.

Baking times and the temperature of the oven will differ according to the model, so please make adjustments accordingly.
Because this blog translates Japanese in a translation site and writes it, there may be the place where a sentence is wrong sorry.

Thank you for reading this to the end.

Big bread bears recipe

Big bread bears recipe
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ingredients

dough
200g(7,1oz) bread flour
110 g(3,9oz) water(use lukewarm water during wintertime)
1 1/2tablespoon(15g/0,5oz) sugar
1/4 teaspoon(2g/0,1oz) salt 
15g(0,5oz) butter　
1teaspoon(3g/0,1oz) instant dry yeast 
Other
egg white
Some oatmeal
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Directions

①Get two bowls ready, and put bread flour and salt in one.
Put the water(use lukewarm water during wintertime), sugar, and dry yeast into the other bowl and mix together thoroughly. Add this mixture into the bowl containing the bread flour, and knead.

②When the mixture becomes one cluster, take it out from the bowl, and knead the cluster until the surface of the dough becomes smooth.
When the surface becomes smooth, add butter and knead thoroughly once more. Then, roll the dough into a ball and put into a bowl.

③Put plastic wrap onto the bowl. Then, by keeping this bowl somewhere warm, do the primary fermenting until the dough blows up to twice its size.

④Take out the dough from the bowl while being careful not to damage it.

⑤Divide the dough.

- 2 pieces of dough of 5grams(about 0,2oz) each, for the ears
- a piece of about 331 grams(about 11,7oz) for the head

Roll each piece of dough into a ball.

Let the dough sit for 15 to 20 minutes after placing a fully wrung wet cloth on top.

⑥Lightly flatten the dough and punch it down. Re-roll all of them.
Firmly attach the ear portions (5g 2) to the large rounded dough and create a bear shape.
Put on an oven plate with a baking sheet.

Put the bear-shaped dough on an oven plate.

Prepare the egg white. Use a brush to spread the mix on the dough and sprinkle it with oatmeal.

To prevent the dough from drying up, place plastic wrap and a fully wrung wet cloth on top.

Make sure the plastic wrap does not stick to the dough.
Make sure the plastic wrap does not stick to the dough.

⑦Do the secondary fermenting until the dough blows up to twice its size.

Bake

Pre-heat at 180℃(360F) and bake for 15 minutes, covered with aluminum foil ear part.Bake for10 more minutes.

Baking times and the temperature of the oven will differ according to the model, so please make adjustments accordingly.

After the bread is baked, create eyes and nose using raisins.

How to make the eyes of the bear with raisins.

http://edible-bears.blogspot.jp/2014/02/whole-bodybread-bears-recipebasic-bread.html

Because this blog translates Japanese in a translation site and writes it, there may be the place where a sentence is wrong. sorry.

Thank you for reading this to the end.