Gingerbread Teddy Bears

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Servings: 24 Difficulty: Advanced
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Vietnamese-style sweet and satisfying dessert that brings home-style flavor to your table
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Gingerbread Teddy Bears

Author: chefs-mate Cooking Method: Cuisine: Courses:
Difficulty: Advanced
Servings: 24 Calories: 1579.5

Description

This Vietnamese dessert features Butter (or margarine, Brown sugar, Corn syrup and/or molasses, Flour, Cinnamon. It delivers smooth, comforting richness, sweet, indulgent flavor. A wonderful way to end any meal, especially on special occasions. Simple to make with ingredients you likely already have on hand, this is a recipe you will come back to again and again.

Ingredients

Directions

  1. In a saucepan combine butter, brown sugar and corn syrup.
  2. Cook and stir over medium heat until sugar dissolves.
  3. Pour into large mixing bowl; cool 5 minutes.
  4. Sift together flour, cinnamon, ginger, cloves and baking soda.
  5. Add egg and vanilla to butter mixture; mix well.
  6. Add flour mixture; beat til well mixed.
  7. Divide dough in half, cover and chill 2 hours or overnight.
  8. For each bear,
  9. shape dough into one 1-inch ball, one 3/4-inch ball, six 1/2-inch balls and one 1/4-inch ball.
  10. On ungreased cookie sheet flatten the 1-inch ball to 1/2" thickness for body.
  11. Attach the 3/4-inch ball for head and flatten to 1/2" thickness.
  12. Attach the 1/2-inch balls for arms, legs and ears.
  13. Attach the 1/4-inch ball for nose.
  14. Bake at 350 degrees for 8 to 10 minutes, cool and decorate.
  15. I usually make these smaller than described here; about 1/2 the size.
  16. Also, the ears start to look like MOUSE ears if they're not a little smaller than the arms and legs.
  17. Roll the nose ball to make it more oval in shape and place it on the LOWER half of the bear's face.
  18. These can be decorated with any icing-- I use tinted Royal icing made from meringue powder to
  19. add eyes, nose and bow tie to each bear.
  20. For Easter, make these into bunnies.
  21. Use only light corn syrup, no molasses.
  22. Substitute white sugar for the brown sugar.
  23. Omit spices and add a bit of almond extract if desired.
  24. Make them the same way, but
  25. make two long ears on the top and two cheek-balls instead of the nose-ball.
  26. Decorate with pastel icings

Nutrition Facts

Servings 24

Amount Per Serving
Calories 1579.5kcal
% Daily Value *
Total Fat 51.1g79%
Saturated Fat 31.1g156%
Cholesterol 129.5mg44%
Sodium 420.9mg18%
Total Carbohydrate 252.6g85%
Dietary Fiber 7.5g30%
Sugars 52.8g
Protein 24.7g50%

* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet. Your daily value may be higher or lower depending on your calorie needs.

Keywords: andor, baking, bears, beaten, brown, butter, cinnamon, cloves, corn, dessert, egg, extract, flour, ginger, gingerbread, ground, lightly, margarine, molasses, soda
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