Bear Claws

These comport claw pastries are delicious. The dough mixes genuinely easily (no kneading) together with the filling for the pastry is every bit as easy. The frustrating component subdivision is assembly. It is such a mucilaginous dough, that it requires tons of flour on your counter together with yous convey to launder your hands together with utensils virtually every xxx seconds or hence to build things run smoothly. Assembly is a piddling tricky together with requires patience; if yous tin dismiss tolerate that annoyance, the inwards determination production is worth it. This recipe makes virtually a dozen nice size pastries, fifty-fifty hence the dough together with filling testament operate out of absence along inwards the fridge for upwardly to iii days, hence yous exercise not convey to bake them all at once.

PASTRY
1 loving loving cup butter
1 tablespoon of dry out out active yeast
¼ loving loving cup warm water
¼ loving loving cup white sugar
3 eggs yolks
½ teaspoon salt
(1) modest (5 ounce) tin dismiss evaporated milk
1 ½ cups all component subdivision flour
Melt the butter together with permit it cool downwardly to 110 degrees (should lone sense skillful together with warm to the touch, not hot). Dissolve yeast inwards ¼ loving loving cup warm water. Mix these ii liquids together together with add together together ¼ loving loving cup sugar, egg yolks, salt, evaporated milk, together with flour. Mix skilful together with covert alongside plastic gyre together with chill inwards fridge at to the lowest marker 24 hours (or upwardly to iii days).

PASTRY FILLING
½ loving loving cup butter (room temperature)
1 + 1/3 cups unsifted powdered sugar
2/3 loving loving cup all-purpose flour
8 ounces (1 cup) almond paste
1 teaspoon lemon zest
2 egg whites
3/4 loving loving cup finely chopped almonds
Beat softened butter together with powdered carbohydrate until smooth. Add 2/3 loving loving cup flour together with almond paste. Beat alongside electrical mixer until crumbly together with evenly mixed; add together together lemon zest together with ii egg whites. Beat until smooth. Stir inwards ¾ loving loving cup finely chopped almonds. Cover alongside plastic gyre together with chill until home (one to thee days).

ASSEMBLY
Put a nice thick layer of flour on your counter together with rolling pin (this dough is STICKY, but yous tin dismiss dust any excess flour off later, alongside a pastry brush). Roll the dough out to a 20” x 12” rectangle, keeping the edges every bit forthwith every bit possible. Cut the dough (length-wise) into iii sections, each virtually 4” wide.

Flour your counter together with hands together with gyre the almond filling into iii 20” “ropes” (the diameter of your thumb). Keep washing your hands because the filling is mucilaginous too! Lay i of the “ropes” inwards the middle of each 20” dough strip together with flatten it exactly 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) together with lay them on a parchment lined baking sheet. With a acute knife, cutting three slits inwards each pastry.

 
Flour your knife hence it does not stick to the dough together with wipe it off often). Use the tip of the knife to carve upwardly the “claws” a little. Lightly trounce the remaining egg white together with brush over the comport claws. movement yesteryear alongside sliced almonds together with sprinkle alongside sanding sugar. Let pastries elevate for 45 minutes together with too hence bake inwards preheated 375° oven for xv minutes. Cool on wire rack. Makes virtually a dozen.

NOTE: I hope I convey not scared yous away from this recipe. It genuinely is no harder than a unproblematic piecrust, but I felt it lone fair to warn yous virtually the mucilaginous dough.
NOTE: I lay a unproblematic glaze on unopen to of the pastries together with unopen to I left plain. If yous convey work finding sanding carbohydrate (it genuinely adds a special shine together with “finish” to baked goods), check Wal-Marts baking isle, unopen the sprinkles. They sell a Wiltons large grain transparent sprinkle that testament run exactly every bit well.
 

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