Hamantaschen Recipe
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Ingredients: Cookie
2/3 cup butter
1/2 cup sugar
1 egg
1 tsp vanilla
1 tsp lemon zest
1 tsp baking powder
pinch salt
cups flour
Filling
Fruit Jam (Strawberry, raspberry, prune, etc) or Chocolate
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Directions:Preheat oven to 375 degrees Fahrenheit, and prepare a baking sheet with parchment paper.
Cream butter and sugar in a mixer for a 1–2 minutes.
Add egg, vanilla, and zest of half a lemon to the mixer, and continue to mix for another minute.
In a separate bowl, combine baking powder, salt, and 2 cups flour.
Combine your dry and wet ingredients until a dough is formed.
Gather the dough into a flat disk (use extra flour on your hands to make sure the dough doesn't stick).
Cover the dough in plastic wrap, and refrigerate 30–45 minutes.
Sprinkle your working surface with flour, and roll the dough into a 1/8-inch thick disc.
Use a circle cookie cutter (2-3 inch diameter) to cut circles in the dough.
Lift each circle, and place on a baking sheet.
Drop about a tsp of filling (either fruit jam or chocolate) onto the middle of each circle.
Pinch the circle into a three cornered triangle (use water on your fingertips if the dough isn't sticking), and make sure the corners are sealed.
Bake for 10–15 minutes at 375 degrees Fahrenheit until the edges just start to turn brown.
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Servings:A dozen cookies |
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Time:1 hour |
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Notes: I wanted to develop a cookie that my family and others would enjoy for the holidays, and I took great pride in the fact that the entire office loved them so much. Part of baking cookies is making other people happy and giving the love that you put into every batch to other people.
On Purim, you're supposed to make tzedakah (charity), and you typically make these cookies, and other things, to give in the form of gift baskets to people. So, my form of tzedakah was to give the cookies to my coworkers.
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