This bear claw recipe with refrigerated biscuits or lion claws are the solid treat to pair with your event! Semi homemade dessert or canned biscuit breakfast recipe that is yummy.

As the weather cools down, is there a better way to spend time as a family than movie night? We made these lion claws or bear claws recipe for the occasion so our evening would be complete. Let us show you how to make this classic dessert with refrigerated dough.

Have you seen the new Lion King movie yet?? Yes it's a remake of the original you loved, BUT a bit different! My girls wanted to watch it and then wanted a Lion King birthday party that same year. To make things easy we came up with this fun way of baking their favorite treat.

Now on to the recipe for these dessert biscuits! This is something we came up with after making butter pecan cookies with cake mix….and couldn't get enough fun!

Easy Bear Claw Recipe

They look kinda' like claws right??!! Well our girls thought of this idea when we said we were going to have family movie night this week. If you haven't baked with your kids it is a great activity to do together. Talk about a wonderful learning experience! Showing them how to measure flour properly so a recipe turns out well, the reason for preheating an oven, and everything else in between are life lessons for sure.

When it comes to baking we love it, but we don't always do homemade. Semi homemade pastries are kinda' our thing. They're fresh, sweet, and yummy but with a little less effort on our part. If we read a recipe that says yeast….we're out. LOL.

You don't even need all purpose flour for this one since the dough and filling are already pretty much done for you. Yes you do create the middle almond filling, or you could fold in chocolate chips too. Puff pastry could also be used, we love easy peasy. SO, this is the easy bear claws recipe We came up with to go along with the whole animal movie theme.

You could add cinnamon into the cream cheese filling if you wanted to or leave out. Add a bit of a dollop of jam is a nice fruity touch in there too. Or wait until baked and make a fun glaze / frosting over the top.

Ingredient notes

You will want a roll of large flaky refrigerated biscuits. Choose honey or plain vs. butter so it stays sweeter.we have heard some make these a great Puff Pastry Breakfast Recipe if you wanted to use that dough, thawed

Cream cheesesoftened is best to create a smooth filling for the center. You could use a dairy free alternative

Confectioners sugar or known as powdered sugar will sweeten the inside yum, use more or less for the right consistency.

Vanilla extract is a nice touch, with some sliced almonds to add for the nails. Egg wash is used to make the top a bit shiny

Filling ideas

There are many things you could add into the filling like fresh or frozen fruit as well. Mini Chocolate chips are great too. All in all we would set aside about 30 minutes for this start to finish. Much quicker than if you started from scratch for sure but not a huge difference in the flavor.

If you want to drizzle some glaze over the top you can whisk together some water and powdered sugar until it's as thick as you desire. That is simple and inexpensive so that's kinda' our go to easy glaze recipe.

Bear Claw Recipe

By Easy bear claw recipe with refrigerated biscuits is the solid semi homemade breakfast or dessert. Filled with a sweet cream cheese filling you are going to love these. Prep: 15 minutes minsCook: 13 minutes minsServings: 8 Save Recipe Saved! Pin Recipe Comment Print Recipe

Equipment

Ingredients

1 tube refrigerated biscuits, Large Grand honey butter biscuits used
1 block cream cheese, 8 oz
1/4 c powdered sugar
1 tsp vanilla
1/4 c sliced almonds
1 egg, beaten

Instructions

Preheat oven to 350℉, lightly spray a cookie sheet with cooking spray or have a non-stick cookie sheet ready to use.
Place the cream cheese and powdered sugar into a small bowl and use a mixer to beat them until the cream cheese is light and sugar has completely been combined well. Add the vanilla and whip for a minute, to incorporate it into the otheringredients. Set aside.
Open the biscuits and separate them. On a lightly floured surface, flatten abiscuit to about 1/4”inch by first moving rolling pin one direction then theother, you'll end up with an slightly oblong shaped biscuit.
Place 1 Tablespoon of the cream cheese mixture into the center of the rolled biscuit. Spread it but don't go too far to the edge. Next fold the biscuit in half making ahalf-moon shape.
Firmly seal the pocket with your fingers to prevent the cream cheese spilling out when baking. Now use a knife to cut small slices around the pocket, see pictures for guide. Pull the 5 sections slightly apart to create the “fingers or claws” Try to pinch or seal down the sections the dough separates. Use your fingers to slightly shape each finger.
For the almond “nails” push one into center of each finger, make sure it's securelyin there otherwise it may fall out during baking. Place the claw on the bakingsheet and repeat with the remaining 7 claws. If you'd like to brush the clawswith the lightly beaten egg do so now — this is to give them a shiny surface, it's funto do it on some, if you'd like but not necessary.
Bake in center of oven for 13 to 15 minutes, keep an eye on them around the 12minute mark. They're done when they've puffed up and the tops are golden brown.
If you want added sweetness you could mix some powdered sugar with a bit of water until you get a thick paste and pour on top as a glaze of sorts.

Nutrition

Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.

Additional Info

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In the baking time if you have little ones they can work on our color by number animals pages which are always a hit.

Frosting

On the outside you could keep it as is with the shiny top and cute nails or drizzle some frosting on. For that you cold whisk together more powdered sugar with a bit of milk until it is the right consistency or melt a tub of it. Either vanilla or cream cheese frosting works well. Allow them to cool and the top will harden a bit so it's easier to eat.

You could use any filling you wanted but this one works well and everyone enjoyed it. For added sweetness you could sprinkle tops with sugar and almonds for the nails of course. We change it up with our strudel with puff pastry this way too.

How to save leftover filled pastries

If you have leftovers they stay quite well. Your best bet so they don't dry out is to wrap each with plastic wrap. Put into a closed container and keep in the fridge in this case because of the filling. You don't want that to spoil so cold is necessary. Reheat in microwave for 30 seconds.

Bear Claws