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Thursday, February 23, 2012

Hamentaschen? Yum-entaschen!

I have high hopes for Purim.  I feel like it could be the Jewish cross-over holiday.  Like St. Patrick's day, Cinco de Mayo and Mardi Gras.  I think we could take Purim to the next level.

I also had high hopes for these Hamentaschen...and the delivered! I used this recipe from Gale Gand as a starting point, substituted Ener-G for the eggs and added a few extra tablespoons of water to get the dough to come together.  Come together it did.


After about an hour of chilling in the fridge, I rolled the dough out, used a glass as a cookie cutter and made about 12 little cookies, filled with apricot jam.  This was a test run.  I have some poppy seed filling and a recipe for homemade apricot filling waiting for this weekend!

I really didn't need to eat four of them to confirm that they were good.  But, I think the last time I had a Hamentaschen was in pre-school.  So I guess you could say I'm making up for lost time.  Now I know this blog post only glossed over the instructions.

So if you need more advice on how to assemble these little cookies, here's some very sage advice from Shalom Sesame !