Homemade Filled Bears

Name: Homemade Filled Bears
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 36 min
Total time: 56 min
Yield: 18 Servings
Cuisine: Česká kuchyně
Ingredients: 2 eggs; 8 g vanilla sugar; 80 g granulated sugar; 1.5 tablespoons rapeseed or sunflower oil; 50 ml semi-skimmed milk; 100 g semi-coarse wheat flour; ½ teaspoon baking powder; 1 teaspoon Dutch cocoa; 9 teaspoons of any jam; or nut butter with cocoa

18 Servings

Under an hour

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For the Dough

2 eggs
8 g vanilla sugar
80 g granulated sugar
1.5 tablespoons rapeseed or sunflower oil
50 ml semi-skimmed milk
100 g semi-coarse wheat flour
½ teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon Dutch cocoa

For the Filling

9 teaspoons of any jam
or nut butter with cocoa

Instructions

1
Preheat the oven to 180 °C, prepare a silicone mold for 6 bears and place it on a baking sheet for stability.
2
Prepare a medium-sized bowl and a taller container for whipping. Then take the eggs and separate the yolks from the whites: Put the yolks into the bowl and the whites into the taller container.
3
Add vanilla sugar and 40 g of granulated sugar to the yolks and whisk the mixture with a hand mixer for 2⁠–⁠3 minutes on high speed until foamy. Then, continuously stirring, incorporate 1.5 tablespoons of oil into the foam. Pour 50 ml of milk into the resulting mixture, sift in the flour with baking powder, and mix the entire mixture.
4
Whisk the egg whites with a hand mixer for 2⁠–⁠3 minutes on high speed until stiff peaks form. Add the remaining 40 g of sugar to the stiff peaks and whisk for another 1⁠–⁠2 minutes on high speed until the peaks are completely firm.
5
Gently fold the finished stiff peaks into the dough in the bowl using a wooden spoon.
6
Take 2 tablespoons of the resulting dough and mix them with Dutch cocoa in a smaller bowl.
7
Pour a thin layer of cocoa dough into the bear paws in the mold, then fill the mold with the light dough. On top of each filled cavity, add ½ teaspoon of jam or cocoa nut butter – it will bake into the dough later, creating the filling.
8
Place the baking sheet with the filled mold into the oven and bake for 10⁠–⁠12 minutes at 175⁠–⁠180 °C.
9
Remove the baking sheet from the oven and let the bears cool in the mold for at least 15 minutes. Then unmold them and let them cool for another 10 minutes.
10
Gradually prepare 2 more batches of bears ⁠–⁠ each time fill the mold in the same way as before, bake the bears for 10⁠–⁠12 minutes at 175⁠–⁠180 °C, and let them cool for at least 15 minutes in the mold and 10 minutes out of the mold.
11
Once cooled, you can serve the bears.

Tip

You can also prepare zebra-striped bears: Mix Dutch cocoa with half of the dough, pour the resulting cocoa dough over the light dough, mix with a spoon, and fill the mold with the resulting mixture. Alternatively, you can omit cocoa from the recipe entirely and bake the bears completely light ⁠⁠–⁠⁠ this will not negatively affect their taste. It is also possible to omit jam or nut butter from the recipe and prepare bears without filling.

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