3 eggs
1-cup oil
1-cup sugar
1-teaspoon vanilla
1/2 teaspoon almond extract
1-teaspoon baking powder
3 cups flour
In a large mixer, beat together the eggs, oil, sugar, vanilla and almond extract. Add baking powder and flour until you get a workable dough. If dough is too wet, add more flour.
Divide dough into quarters. Toll to ¼-inch thickness on a lightly floured surface. Cut into 3-inch rounds. Reroll scraps. Place the filling of your choice in center of each dough round. Fold three sides up to form a triangle, leaving some filling exposed in the center.
Place cookies 2 inches apart on greased cookie sheets. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Brush with egg wash if desired (see yeast dough recipe). Bake for 15 – 17 minutes or until crisp. Transfer to a wire rack to cool.
This recipe is easy and quick. I found it a few years ago on the Aish website.
Is that your photo? Your hamantaschen? Our dough is similar, though I use Earth Balance for the “fat.” And no almond extract.
Happy Adar.
No, the photo isn’t mine. I used mine last year but I found the one I had in the media section of my blog too tiny to put it up here today. I guess I erased the original shot.
What do you use for filling? We fill our hamentashen with chocolate chips.
Shabbat Shalom.
I use jam or plum lekvar. Shabbat Shalom to you.
Mrs. S., we also do chocolate chips. Not because I like them, but because my boys like them that way. I kind of like it that way, because then I’m not tempted to eat them.
If I filled them with plum lekvar, Ilana-Davita, I would eat ‘em all up.
The photo is lovely, and now that I have seen it, am getting hungry for Hamentashen. LOL.
Nice recipe!
They look great. Can’t wait to have some.
I’m a cheater when it comes to hamantaschen. I do an old-school yellow cake mix recipe
It works!
I prefer cherry pie filing for mine, but I might have to try the chocolate chips! Poppyseed are my favorite, but I don’t like to make them.
what recipe is that?
I tried the one here yesterday:
http://jewishhomeschool.blogspot.com/2011/03/easy-yummy-hamantashen-recipe.html
They are VERY soft, and they taste super-sweet, but with cherry pie filling, they were easy, fast, and delightful!
Thanks, I just made up a batch of dough. I plan to fill it with date filling tomorrow or the next day.
Hannah: thanks for the feedback.
Just wanted to let you know that this page has appeared in the 51st (just in time for Purim) kosher cooking carnival – see you there!
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