Bear Claws



These send hook pastries are delicious. The dough mixes really easily (no kneading) in addition to the filling for the pastry is as as easy. The frustrating business office is assembly. It is such a pasty dough, that it requires tons of flour on your counter in addition to you lot accept to launder your hands in addition to utensils well-nigh every xxx seconds or therefore to brand things move smoothly. Assembly is a niggling tricky in addition to requires patience; if you lot tin tolerate that annoyance, the concluding production is worth it. This recipe makes well-nigh a dozen overnice size pastries, notwithstanding the dough in addition to filling volition conk along inwards the refrigerator for upwardly to iii days, therefore you lot practise non accept to bake them all at once.



PASTRY
1 loving cup butter
1 tablespoon of dry out active yeast
¼ loving cup warm water
¼ loving cup white sugar
3 eggs yolks
½ teaspoon salt
(1) pocket-sized (5 ounce) tin evaporated milk
1 ½ cups all role flour
Melt the butter in addition to allow it cool downward to 110 degrees (should solely experience proficient in addition to warm to the touch, non hot). Dissolve yeast inwards ¼ loving cup warm water. Mix these 2 liquids together in addition to add together ¼ loving cup sugar, egg yolks, salt, evaporated milk, in addition to flour. Mix good in addition to encompass alongside plastic roll in addition to chill inwards refrigerator at to the lowest degree 24 hours (or upwardly to iii days).


PASTRY FILLING
½ loving cup butter (room temperature)
1 + 1/3 cups unsifted powdered sugar
2/3 loving cup all-purpose flour
8 ounces (1 cup) almond paste

1 teaspoon lemon zest
2 egg whites
3/4 loving cup finely chopped almonds
Beat softened butter in addition to powdered carbohydrate until smooth. Add 2/3 loving cup flour in addition to almond paste. Beat alongside electrical mixer until crumbly in addition to evenly mixed; add together lemon zest in addition to 2 egg whites. Beat until smooth. Stir inwards ¾ loving cup finely chopped almonds. Cover alongside plastic roll in addition to chill until draw of piece of occupation solid (one to thee days).


ASSEMBLY
Put a overnice thick layer of flour on your counter in addition to rolling pivot (this dough is STICKY, but you lot tin dust whatsoever excess flour off later, alongside a pastry brush). Roll the dough out to a 20” x 12” rectangle, keeping the edges as at i time as possible. Cut the dough (length-wise) into iii sections, each well-nigh 4” wide.

Flour your counter in addition to hands in addition to whorl the almond filling into iii 20” “ropes” (the diameter of your thumb). Keep washing your hands because the filling is pasty too! Lay i of the “ropes” inwards the see of each 20” dough strip in addition to flatten it but a little. Fold the dough over the “rope”, matching the other (cut) edge. Cut each filled 20” strip into 4” pastries (brush excess flour off alongside a pastry brush) in addition to lay them on a parchment lined baking sheet. With a abrupt knife, cutting 3 slits inwards each pastry.
 
Flour your knife therefore it does non stick to the dough in addition to wipe it off often). Use the tip of the knife to dissever the “claws” a little. Lightly trounce the remaining egg white in addition to brush over the send claws. top alongside sliced almonds in addition to sprinkle alongside sanding sugar. Let pastries heighten for 45 minutes in addition to and therefore bake inwards preheated 375° oven for xv minutes. Cool on wire rack. Makes well-nigh a dozen.

NOTE: I promise I accept non scared you lot away from this recipe. It actually is no harder than a uncomplicated piecrust, but I felt it solely fair to warn you lot well-nigh the pasty dough.
NOTE: I pose a uncomplicated glaze on about of the pastries in addition to about I left plain. If you lot accept problem finding sanding carbohydrate (it actually adds a particular shine in addition to “finish” to baked goods), cheque Wal-Marts baking isle, nigh the sprinkles. They sell a Wiltons large grain transparent sprinkle that volition move but as well.

 
 in addition to the filling for the pastry is as as slow BEAR CLAWS

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