Bear Paw Cookies Recipes

Steps:

• In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat in vanilla. Combine the flour, cocoa, baking soda and salt; gradually add to creamed mixture and mix well. Stir in cereal. Cover and refrigerate for 1 hour or until easy to handle., Roll into 1-in. balls. Place 2 in. apart on ungreased baking sheets. Flatten with a glass dipped in sugar. Bake at 350° for 9-11 minutes or until edges are firm. Remove to wire racks to cool completely., Place melted chocolate in a pastry bag or resealable plastic bag; cut a small hole in corner of bag. For bear claws, pipe three small dabs of chocolate on each cookie; top each with an almond.

Steps:

• cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy.
• Blend in chocolate syrup.
• Add eggs one at a time, beating well after each.
• Blend in vanilla.
• Combine flour, powder and salt.
• Add dry ingredients alternately with milk to chocolate mixture, beating well.
• Cover and chill one hour.
• Drop batter by heaping teaspoonsful onto a greased baking sheet.
• Press 4 peanut halves or cashews into each cookie, to resemble a bear's paw.
• Bake at 375* for 10 to 12 minutes or until center springs back when lightly touched.
• Cool on baking sheet for 2 minutes and transfer to wire rack to cool completely.

Steps:

• In a medium bowl, beat butter with sugar on medium-high speed until light and fluffy, about 2 minutes. Add flour, spices, salt, and almonds and beat well on low speed until dough starts to come together, about 1 minute. Cover bowl with plastic wrap and refrigerate until firm, about 1 hour.
• Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Brush 2 madeleine pans with softened butter. Press 2 packed tablespoons of dough into each mold (dough should be level with top of mold).
• Bake until edges are brown, about 20 minutes. Let cool 10 minutes in pans on a wire rack. Turn pans upside down over rack and tap to release cookies from mold. Let cool completely on rack.
• Melt chocolate in a metal bowl set over (not in) a pan of simmering water, or in a double boiler. Dip each cookie on the diagonal into chocolate, then place on a parchment-lined baking sheet. Refrigerate until chocolate is set, about 30 minutes.