Bear Cookies

 

Whether you need bear cookies for a camping trip or a child’s birthday, these adorable treats can be made with refrigerator cookie dough or a from scratch recipe. No need to be a cake decorator either, I’ll show you how to easily make these furry bear cookies!

Why this recipe works

If you’re short on time or just don’t like to bake from scratch, you can use a shortcut dough from the grocery store. If you prefer homemade, here’s my sugar cookie dough.

Canned frosting is also your friend, but if you like recipes from scratch, try my cream cheese frosting or buttercream icing.

Ingredients you will need

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How to Make Bear Cookies

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1. Roll cookie dough out to 1/4-inch thick. Use a 4-inch round cookie or biscuit cutter to cut cookies, you should get 14 cookies.
2. Bake cookies on Insulated baking sheets according to the recipe or refrigerator dough package. Allow to cool completely on wire racks.

How to assemble

1. The first step is to spread the icing to cover your sugar cookie. Then you can add texture to the icing that resembles fur.

2. The boys loved how easy we could achieve this, with no need for piping which can be difficult for little hands! We used the instructions from these Cookie Monster Cookies to create the fur look.

3. Basically you just drag your icing with the tip of a butter knife to create strokes of fur.

4. Next you attach the snout by gently pressing a vanilla wafer cookie into the frosting.

5. Add a touch of buttercream icing to the center of the wafer and attach the chocolate candy to create the nose.

6. Gently press the candy eyes into the frosting above the nose.

7. To create the ears place candy melts on either side of the top of the cookie.

8. Spread or pipe some buttercream around the edges.

9. Finally, use an edible food marker to add the mouth.

Expert Tips & FAQs

• Making the frosting “furry” is not a necessary step, it’s just for fun. Feel free to just spread it on!
• If you don’t have candy eyes and prefer not to buy any, you can make them by melting white chocolate and dropping small circles onto waxed paper with a piping bag. You can use a miniature chocolate chip for the pupil! You can see how this is done on my bee cupcake toppers.

We hope you love making these fun bear cookies as much as we did! Ours were blue because we originally made them to look like Boomer the Bear from Wonder Park. But you could make them any color you want. Enjoy!

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• Elmo Freakshakes
• Cookie Monster and Elmo Cookies
• Cookie Monster Freakshake
• Bear Toast
• Unicorn Freakshakes
• Spiderman Cake

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Bear Cookies

You just need a few simple ingredients for this yummy project. Kids will have a blast helping you in the kitchen and decorating their bear cookies!

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Course: Desserts

Cuisine: American

Servings: 14

30 minutes mins

Calories: 313

Author: Amanda Davis

Ingredients

• ▢ 16.5 ounce slice and bake refrigerator cookie dough or you can use homemade sugar cookie dough
• ▢ 16 oz canned vanilla frosting or homemade icing
• ▢ blue gel food coloring
• ▢ Small candy eyes
• ▢ 14 Vanilla wafer cookies for the snout
• ▢ Chocolate candy of your choice for the nose
• ▢ 28 Candy melts for the ears
• ▢ Edible food marker

Before You Begin

• Making the frosting "furry" is not a necessary step, it's just for fun. Feel free to just spread it on!
• If you don't have candy eyes and prefer not to buy any, you can make them by melting white chocolate and dropping small circles onto waxed paper with a piping bag. You can use a miniature chocolate chip for the pupil! You can see how this is done on my bee cupcake toppers.

Instructions

• Roll cookie dough out to 1/4-inch thick. Use a 4-inch round cookie cutter to cut cookies, you should get 14 cookies.
• Bake cookies according to the recipe or refrigerator dough package. Allow to cool completely on wire racks.
• Spread the icing to cover your sugar cookie.
• Drag your icing with the tip of a butter knife to create strokes of fur.
• Next you attach the snout by gently pressing a vanilla wafer cookie into the frosting.
• Add a touch of buttercream icing to the center of the wafer and attach the chocolate candy to create the nose.
• Gently press the candy eyes into the frosting above the nose.
• To create Boomer's ears place candy melts on either side of the top of the cookie. Spread or pipe some buttercream around the edges.
• Finally, use an edible food marker to add Boomer's mouth.

Nutrition

Serving: 1cookie | Calories: 313cal | Carbohydrates: 47g | Protein: 2g | Fat: 13g | Saturated Fat: 3g | Cholesterol: 4mg | Sodium: 182mg | Potassium: 65mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 35g | Vitamin A: 12IU | Calcium: 4mg | Iron: 1mg

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