Substances:
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup butter, room temperature
2 eggs, at room temperature
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
2 cups flour
1/2 cup peanut butter powder (I used PBFit)
1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
jam (I used elderberry jam)
Instructions:
Preheat oven to 375. Line two cookie sheets with parchment paper.
In a big bowl, beat collectively the butter, sugar, vanilla and egg. Add the remaining dry elements. Combine till easy.
Roll the dough out onto a clear, floured floor. When the dough is a couple of 1/4 inch thick, minimize 2 1/2-3 inch circles out of the dough utilizing a cookie, biscuit or doughnut cutter. Place them on the ready pans.
Spoon some jam into the center of every circle. Fold three sides in the direction of the middle and press all the way down to type a triangle.
Don’t re-roll dough. Reduce scraps into small shapes and bake as-is, if desired.
Bake 12 minutes or till golden. Cool on a wire rack.
Yield: about 2 dozen cookies
My ideas:
Comfortable Purim! One other yr, one other form of hamantaschen!
This yr was just a little fraught as a result of I simply acquired again from the IACP convention in NYC which was enjoyable however tiring and my rolling pin broke whereas I used to be rolling out the cookies! Oy! I didn’t handle to make an entire batch sadly however the ones I made had been actually good. What’s a extra basic mixture than peanut butter and jelly? In fact, for hamantashen, you might want to use jam not jelly however the outcomes are simply as tasty because the basic sandwich, I promise.
I used peanut butter powder (which is offered almost in all places now!) as a substitute of ready peanut butter as a result of I needed the cookie to have that butter cookie style and texture and it’s laborious to do this when utilizing peanut butter as your fats. Peanut butter powder works extra like flour so you may have that butter cookie however with the peanut butter taste.
I wrote an article about Purim and hamantaschen for NPR some time again and since then, I’ve created recipes for a rugelach-inspired cream cheese based mostly hamantaschen, chocolate hamantaschen, pareve/vegan hamantaschen crammed with kiwi jam, orange ginger hamantaschen, and pareve/vegan fig-orange hamantaschen spiked with butternut squash, and double orange hamantaschen.
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