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These bear paw cookies are not just fun but SO easy! This is one of those things that make you go, why didn’t I think of this sooner? All you really need is a basic sugar cookie recipe and some chocolate. Voila!
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These are SO cute and my boyfriend’s son LOVED making (and eating!) these! Thank you for a fun recipe! 🙂
Bear Paw Cookies
The base of these cookies are the same as our favorite sugar cookies. It is a nice soft and chewy cookie. You can roll the balls of dough in granulated sugar if preferred. Or just put them directly onto the cookie sheet.
Ingredients you will need:
- Butter – make sure to use unsalted butter. Different brands of butter have different amounts of salt, so we like control the amount of salt going in the recipe.
- Sweetener – we use granulated sugar.
- Eggs – you will only need one egg.
- Flavoring – you will use vanilla extract for these cookies.
- Dry ingredients – flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt.
- Decorating – 1 bag of Ghiradelli dark chocolate melting wafers, only need 24 wafer chips and semi sweet chocolate chips (only 3 chips go onto each cookie for the claws).
How To Make Bear Paw Cookies
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees
- Line cookie sheet with parchment paper and set aside
- Using a stand mixer, cream together the butter and sugar until creamy
- Add in the egg and egg yolk, vanilla and beat to combine.
- Add in the baking soda, cornstarch, salt and flour and beat until a soft dough forms.
- Using a small ice cream scoop, scoop dough into your hands and roll it
- Place dough onto cookie sheet and bake 9-12 minutes.
- Once cookies are baked, place a melting wafer into the center of the cookie for the pad of the paw
- Then place 3 chocolate chips above the paw for the claws
- Repeat steps with remaining dough and cookies
- Let cookies cool for about 30 minutes before enjoying!
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Ingredients
- 1 cup unsalted butter, softened
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 egg
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 2 cups flour
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp baking soda
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1 bag of ghiradelli dark chocolate melting wafers, only need 24 wafer chips
- 1 bag of semi sweet chocolate chips, only 3 chips go onto each cookie for the claws
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees
- Line cookie sheet with a cookie mat (or parchment paper) and set aside
- Using a stand mixer, cream together the butter and sugar.
- Add in the egg, vanilla and beat to combine.
- Add in the baking soda, baking powder, salt and flour and beat until a soft dough forms.
- Using a small ice cream scoop, scoop dough into your hands and roll it into a ball. Roll in extra sugar if desired.
- Place dough onto cookie sheet 2 inches apart and bake 9-12 minutes.
- Once cookies are baked, place a melting wafer into the center of the cookie for the pad of the paw
- Then place 3 chocolate chips above the paw for the claws.
- Repeat steps with remaining dough and cookies.
- Let cookies cool for about 30 minutes before enjoying!
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
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I didn’t see my comment about slightly different ingredients posted or answered. So I tried both ingredient lists. Both tasted good. The one my daughter texted me used less butter, brown and granulated sugar, and cornstarch. It tastes more like a chocolate chip cookie, but it spreads out too much. Even when I spaced the balls further apart, the cookies spread into each other. The recipe on the website works much better. It stays round and doesn’t spread so much. Tastes more like a sugar cookie. It was nice to try each version, but website one definitely looked better.