Bear claw ( pastry ) - Wikipedia Bear claw ( pastry ) This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. ( September 2012 ) Bear claw Type Pastry, doughnut or fritter Place of origin United States Main ingredients Dough, almond paste Ingredients generally used Raisins Cookbook : Bear claw Media : Bear claw A bear claw is a sweet, yeast - raised pastry, similar to a Danish, originating in the United States during the mid-1920s. A bear claw is usually filled with almond paste, and sometimes raisins, and often shaped in a semicircle with slices along the curved edge, or rectangular with partial slices along one side. As the dough rises, the sections separate, evoking the shape of a bear 's toes, hence the name. A bear claw may also be a yeast doughnut in a shape similar to that of the pastry. Such doughnuts may have an apple pie - style filling, or other fillings such as butter pecan, dates, cream cheese, grape or cherry. Bear claw may also refer to an apple fritter. The name bear claw as used for a pastry is first attested in 1936. The phrase is more common in Western American English, and is included in the U.S. Regional Dialect Survey Results, Question # 87, `` Do you use the term ' bear claw ' for a kind of pastry ? '' Contents 1 Production 2 See also 3 References 4 External links Production A bear claw can be made by hand or by machine. A 1948 patent describes the process of assembling the bear claw as rolling out the dough, layering filling onto it, folding the dough over, cutting small incisions to create the claw - like look, and finally cutting the dough into separate pastries. The pastry can be curved into a half - circle at this point, which causes the `` toes '' to separate. See also List of pastries List of regional dishes of the United States List of doughnut varieties List of fried dough varieties Food portal References ^ Jump up to : `` Bear claw ''. Dictionary of American Regional English. Retrieved 4 September 2012. Jump up ^ FrancesC. `` Almond Bear Claws ''. Allrecipes.com. Retrieved 4 September 2012. Jump up ^ Della - Piana, Patricia. J'eat ? Playful Cookery. Lulu. p. 356. ISBN 9781300921059. ^ Jump up to : Pastry, Joe. `` The Bear Claw ''. Joe Pastry. Retrieved 4 September 2012. Jump up ^ `` Bear Claw ''. Merriam-Webster.com. Retrieved Feb 4, 2016. Jump up ^ `` Dialect Survey Results ''. Joshua Katz, Department of Statistics, NC State University. Archived from the original on 6 June 2013. Retrieved 8 June 2013. ^ Jump up to : Le, Conie Stiles ( Jan 13, 1948 ), Production of coffee cakes, retrieved 2016 - 03 - 24. US Patent US 2434339 A. Filed 1944 - 03 - 22. Granted 1948 - 01 - 13. Jump up ^ Mushet, Cindy, Sur La Table ( 2008 - 10 - 21 ). `` Bear Claw ''. The Art and Soul of Baking. Andrews McMeel Publishing. p. 118. ISBN 9780740773341. 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Question: what is the filling in a bear claw
Answer: almond paste,[2] and sometimes raisins