The Little Polar Bear

Name: The Little Polar Bear
Cook time: 1 h 30 min
Total time: 1 h 30 min
Yield: 32
Ingredients: 100 g soft butter; 80 g demerara sugar; 1 TEASPOON Christmas stollen spice; 1 pinch Salt; 75 g light sugar beet syrup or liquid honey; 1 egg + 1 egg white (size M); 275 g + some flour; 1 coated Tsp Baking soda; 1 coated Tsp Baking Powder; 1 TEASPOON + 1-2 tablespoons lemon juice; 200 g Icing sugar; 7-10 Tbsp blue food colouring; 7-10 Tbsp light blue sugar pearls; baking paper; 2 small plastic bags

AUTHOR
Kate Willis

DIFFICULTY
easy

RATING

COOK TIME
90 mins

TOTAL TIME
90 mins

Ingredients

Servings: 32

100 g soft butter
80 g demerara sugar
1 TEASPOON Christmas stollen spice
1 pinch Salt
75 g light sugar beet syrup or liquid honey
1 egg + 1 egg white (size M)
275 g + some flour
1 coated Tsp Baking soda
1 coated Tsp Baking Powder
1 TEASPOON + 1-2 tablespoons lemon juice
200 g Icing sugar
7-10 Tbsp blue food colouring
7-10 Tbsp light blue sugar pearls
baking paper
2 small plastic bags

Directions

1
Cream butter, brown sugar, spice and salt. First stir in syrup and then 1 egg. Mix 275 g flour, baking soda and baking powder and knead into the mixture. Cover and chill for about 1 hour.
2
Roll out to a thickness of about 4 mm on a little flour, cut out polar bears (about 9 cm long). Place on baking trays lined with baking paper. Bake in a hot oven (electric cooker: 175 °C/ convection oven: 150 °C/gas: level 2) for about 8 minutes. Cooling down
3
Beat 1 egg white, 1 tsp. lemon juice and icing sugar until creamy. Take off 1/3. Stir the rest of the icing thinly with 1-2 tbsp. lemon juice. Colour 1-2 tbsp. thick icing light blue with food colouring. Pour thick white and light blue icing into 1 plastic bag each, cut off a small corner each. Spray light blue and white contours on the bears, let it dry a little bit. Paint with thin cast. Decorate with beads, dry. Paint blue noses and let them dry