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Baking with kids: Hamantaschen
Filed under: Preschoolers, Activities: Babies, Development/Milestones: Babies
Starting this weekend, Purim is being celebrated at my daughter's preschool. In celebration of
the event, we made hamantaschen, a lovely three-cornered cookie
traditionally eaten during this time. Bunny, my three-year-old, enjoyed making and rolling out the dough, then cutting
circles with a coffee cup (we're lacking cookie cutters and it's just the right size). We filled ours with prune,
apricot, and blackberry fillings. Why not try making hamantaschen with your kids? You'll have lots of fun. (Thanks to
my daughter's school for the recipe.)Hamantaschen
I used orange rind instead of the vanilla.
2 1/4 cups flour
1/2 cup sugar
1 tsp. baking powder
1 egg
1/2 cup butter
1 tsp vanilla (or orange rind)
1. Cream together the butter and the sugar.
2. Add egg and vanilla (or orange rind) and mix well.
3. Stir in flour and baking powder and mix until dough holds together. (I used my hands.)
4. Flatten dough, wrap in plastic, and chill several hours or overnight.
5. On a well-floured surface, roll out the dough about 1/4 inch thick.
6. Cut 2 1/2 inch circles into the dough.
7. Fill the dough circle with about a teaspoon of filling* and fold into a triangle.
8. Squeeze corners securely.
9. Bake in a preheated 350º oven for 10-15 minutes, or until nicely browned.
*Filling ideas: poppy seed, prune, almond, apple, or cherry pie filling; fruit jams; chocolate or carob chips; chunks of fruit; anything goes!
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ReaderComments (Page 1 of 1)
3-12-2006 @ 8:18AM
karrie said...A foodie friend of mine filled a batch of hamantaschen with Nutella last year. Her cookies were fantastic!!
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3-12-2006 @ 10:59AM
tatyana said...Making Hamentachen is great with kids. You set out all kinds of fillings and let the kids choose what to put inside. They love having many different types of cookies...and best of all it uses up the almost finished jars of jelly, chocolate chips and peanut butter laying around.
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3-12-2006 @ 11:12AM
Michelle K said...Oh, thanks for the recipe. Those cookies remind me of my great-grandma, who would make the apricot-jam kind just because she liked them.
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3-12-2006 @ 1:17PM
Bonnie said...Thanks for sharing the recipe! I made dough last night and we just finished making our hamantaschen before nap time... but they weren't that great. This year my two year old was able to help roll dough, and enjoyed dusting with flour. Next year will be great to play around with different filling! (And have a tastier dough!)
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3-12-2006 @ 1:19PM
Bonnie said...Thanks for sharing the recipe! I made dough last night and we just finished making our hamantaschen before nap time... but they weren't that great. This year my two year old was able to help roll dough, and enjoyed dusting with flour. Next year will be great to play around with different filling! (And have a tastier dough!)
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3-14-2006 @ 2:02PM
bernalgirl said...You've taken the fear factor out of hamantashen for me -- I look at the finished product and it seems so complicated, but dividing it up seems doable. I'm looking forward to making these with my daughter next year when she's old enough.
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3-14-2006 @ 2:36PM
bernalgirl said...Thank you for taking the fear factor out of hamantaschen. It looks complicated when I'm eating one, but dividing the work over two days seems very doable (perhaps I have a toddler's attention span for baking). Can't wait to try this with my daughter when she's old enough next year!
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