Hamantaschen
Israel ????????
Time: 1 hour + 1 hour chilling | Servings: 36 cookies | Rating: ★★★★☆
Ingredients
For the Dough
- 3½ cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- ½ cup almond flour
- 9 oz butter
- 1 cup confectioner’s sugar
- 3 tablespoons granulated sugar
- 2 eggs
- Pinch salt
- Zest of ½ lemon
For the Poppy Seed Filling
- 100 grams poppy seeds, ground
- 1/3 cup granulated sugar
- 1/2 cup milk
- 1 tablespoon honey
- Zest of ½ lemon
For Alternate Fillings
- ¾ cup of your favorite jam (we used ⅜ cup blueberry jam and ⅜ cup apricot jam)
Directions
- Sift the all-purpose flour and almond flour together. Add the baking powder and salt.
- In the bowl of a stand mixer, cream the butter with confectioner’s sugar and granulated sugar.
- Add eggs to the butter.
- Add the sifted flour mixture to the butter and mix until dough is formed.
- Wrap the dough in plastic wrap and refrigerate for at least an hour.
- Meanwhile, in a medium saucepan over medium heat, cook milk, sugar, and ground poppy seeds for 10 minutes.
- Add the honey and lemon zest and cook 5 minutes more. Let cool.
- Preheat the oven to 375°F.
- Roll out the dough to approximately ⅙” and cut 3” circles.
- Put about 1 scant teaspoon of filling in the middle of each circle. Fold up dough into a triangle and pinch the edges.
- Bake for 10 minutes or until golden. Enjoy!