Hamentashen

Submitted by Studentchef

"This is a recipe my mother used to make when I was growing up. She used to make these a few days before Purim, and I could never resist having one or two until then. Now that I'm all grown up me and my mother do it together."

 

• Ready In: 45mins
• Ingredients: 7
• Yields: 60 cookies

ingredients

• 2 1⁄2 cups flour
• 1⁄2 cup sugar
• 1⁄2 cup oil
• 2 eggs
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• water or orange juice
• poppy seed filling

directions

1. Mix everything together until you have a nice dough.
2. Take piece by piece from the dough and roll it out with a rolling pin on a floured surface until you get a nice disk.
3. Taking a drinking glass, use it to make a nice circle.
4. Fill it up with poppy seed filling and close it in the shape of a triangle.
5. Bake it in a preheated 350 F degree oven for about 30 minutes. Makes 50 to 60 cookies.

Reviews

[Snow day baker]

This turned out good Hamentashen. There are a few of clarifications I would like to share. 1. The amount of water/orange juice should be about 2.5 Tablespoons 2. You can use canned poppy seed filling or any type of jam/jelly, chocolate spread, or pie filling 3. With the oven at 350 degrees it takes about 20 minutes until they are golden brown 4. The dough makes about 2 dozen cookies

 

[Saturn]

Wonderful! The pastry of these little cookies is just wonderful. It is so easy to work with and it tastes great. I ended up cutting the recipe in half and it worked perfectly. I used water and I only ended up adding two tablespoons. I made my own poppy seed pie filling as I can't find it in any of the stores around here. I used a round cookie cutter that is about 2 inches across. I ended up with just over 30 cookies. I rolled them out as thin as I could and yet still work with them. I think it worked out to be about an 1/8 of an inch thick. Also, my cooking time was 15 minutes on the dot. Any longer and they would have burned. We are going to try a bunch of different fillings in this dough. Thanks for posting this!

 

[J M.]

Taste yummy and they turned out nice and sturdy for packing, a real plus of an oil-based dough. However, I'm giving three stars because the directions are incomplete. How much water / orange juice is needed? (Enough to make a "nice dough?" If I knew what that was, I'd probably have a great recipe already!) I used a couple of tablespoons, and that seemed to do the trick. This dough is also exceptionally oily - the oil actually seeped out when I put it in the fridge overnight and made everything slimy. Be prepared to be QUITE liberal with flour so it doesn't stick all over the place. I used prune filling for half and a homemade pareve pumpkin-spice filling for the other half, just for something different. ;-) In future, I'd probably try to cut down the oil, maybe down to 1/3 cup - or less... MADE AGAIN FOR PURIM 2010, and again, it is very oily and hard to work. Again, with more flour on work surfaces and a bit mixed into the surface of the dough, it becomes quite nice & workable. For next time, I'll probably start with an extra quarter- to half-cup of flour.

 

[sdgolden]

Excellent hamentashen recipe. Dough came together fabulously and was easy to work with. I highly recommend this recipe!! Yum!!!!

 

[Dreamer in Ontario]

Nice cookies that are not too sweet. I couldn't find poppy seed filling so made my own. I filled half the cookies with that and the other half with chocolate kisses.