Teddy Bear Cookies
- 150 grams Cake flour
- 70 grams Butter or margarine
- 50 grams Sugar
- 1 dash Milk
- 1 tsp Bread (strong) flour
- 1 tsp Cocoa powder
- 1 Pink icing or chocolate decorating pen
- Make the dough.
- Combine all the ingredients and mix well.
- Gradually add and mix milk into the dough, small amount at a time, while checking the softness of the dough.
- Divide the dough into half.
- Add and mix the cocoa powder to the half of the dough.
- Make the dough into balls.
- Wrap the dough with plastic wrap and let it rest in the refrigerator.
- You can of course use your favorite cookie dough instead!
- Sandwich the one of the dough in two sheets of plastic wrap and roll it out to 5 mm thick.
- Cut into bear shapes using a cookie cutter.
- Leave the other half of the dough in the refrigerator.
- Align the shaped dough onto a cookie sheet.
- If the dough gets too soft to handle, place it back in the refrigerator to harden.
- Continue making the bear shapes once the dough gets hard enough to handle.
- Roll out the left over dough into a thinner layer.
- Making a nose either by using a cookie cutter or by making a small ball and smash it down.
- Place it onto the bears face.
- Place plastic wrap onto the nose, press it down with your finger (gently!!)
- so that it will stick to the dough.
- Make the faces.
- Before baking, combine the equal amount of the bread flour and the cocoa power and gradually add and mix some boiling water, a few drops at a time.
- Use a toothpick to draw a face.
- Use the flatter end of the toothpick to draw eyes and a nose.
- Use the pointing end of the toothpick to draw fine lines.
- Draw different kinds of expressions on the faces.
- Add stitches with a toothpick.
- It looks cute if you give his cheek the little dotted lines!
- Bake in the oven preheated to 170C for about 15 minutes.
- Adjust the cooking time according to your oven.
- Make the cheeks.
- Use some pink icing, pink chocolate decoration pen, or a small amount of white chocolate+red food coloring to add cheeks.
- For the icing, add some water, a few drops at a time, into the powdered sugar and add a very small amount of food coloring (red).
- Use a toothpick to put the icing onto the face.
- Finished!
- Since you will make the faces before you bake them, they are easier to handle, easier to eat and are well suited for gift wrapping.
- You can draw the faces with chocolate after you bake them if you would like.
- It looks really cute if you attach these cookies onto the side of a cake.
flour, butter, sugar, milk, bread, cocoa, chocolate decorating pen
Taken from cookpad.com/us/recipes/171898-teddy-bear-cookies (may not work)