Shape the gingerbread cookies into cute bears decorated with icing--perfect dessert to treat a crowd.
Gingerbread Bear Cookies
- Prep Time 1 hr 30 min
- Total 1 hr 30 min
- Servings 40
- Ingredients 2
Ingredients
- 1 roll (30 oz) refrigerated gingerbread cookie dough
- Colored decorating icing in tubes
Instructions
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Step1Heat oven to 350°F. Cut cookie dough into 4 equal pieces. Work with 1 piece of dough at a time; refrigerate remaining dough until ready to use.
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Step2Cut 1 piece of dough into 10 equal portions. Using 1 portion for each cookie, shape dough into 1-inch ball for body, 1/2-inch ball for head, 4 (1/4-inch) balls for arms and legs, and 2 smaller balls for ears. Arrange balls to look like teddy bear shape on ungreased cookie sheet. Repeat with remaining pieces of dough, placing cookies 2 inches apart on cookie sheets.
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Step3Bake 10 to 13 minutes or until set. Cool 2 minutes; remove from cookie sheets. Decorate as desired with icing.
Nutrition
120
Calories
6g
Total Fat
1g
Protein
16g
Total Carbohydrate
10g
Sugars
Nutrition Facts
Serving Size: 1 Cookie (without frosting or decoration)
- Calories
- 120
- Calories from Fat
- 50
- Total Fat
- 6g
- 9%
- Saturated Fat
- 1 1/2g
- 8%
- Trans Fat
- 0g
- Cholesterol
- 10mg
- 3%
- Sodium
- 70mg
- 3%
- Potassium
- 0mg
- 0%
- Total Carbohydrate
- 16g
- 5%
- Dietary Fiber
- 0g
- 0%
- Sugars
- 10g
- Protein
- 1g
% Daily Value*:
- Vitamin A
- 0%
- 0%
- Vitamin C
- 0%
- 0%
- Calcium
- 0%
- 0%
- Iron
- 0%
- 0%
Exchanges:
0 Starch; 0 Fruit; 1 Other Carbohydrate; 0 Skim Milk; 0 Low-Fat Milk; 0 Milk; 0 Vegetable; 0 Very Lean Meat; 0 Lean Meat; 0 High-Fat Meat; 1 Fat;Carbohydrate Choice
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