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Excellent Hamantashen

Mimi Markofsky says these are easy
and mistake-proof.
Dough
2 3/4 cups flour
1/2 cup sugar
1 t. baking powder
1 t. grated orange peel or zest
1 t. salt
Peanut Butter Filling
1 cup butter or margarine, softened
Scant 3/4 cup creamy peanut butter
2 eggs beaten
1/2 cup strawberry jam or preserves
2 T. 'milk or non-dairy creamer
3 T. whole or lowfat milk
1 cup of filling of choice
Strawberry jam for topping (optional)
Stir flour, sugar, baking powder,
oven
Place rack in upper third of
orange
zest and salt in a large bowl.
F.
Grease
or
spray
°
and preheat to 350
Cut
in
butter
or margarine until the
heavy-duty
or
cushioned
baking
2
mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Add
sheets. To make dough: In mixing
eggs and milk and mix the dough
bowl with electric mixer, cream butter
until it binds together. Knead dough
and powdered sugar on medium-high
for 5-8 minutes, until it is smooth.
speed until very light and fluffy about
Divide dough into two balls; cover c—\
2 minutes. Mix in egg and vanilla
them each with plastic wrap and
until well blended.
refrigerate them for at least 1 hour.
Mix in melted chocolate. Add
Roll one ball of the dough on a
flour, baking soda and salt and mix
floured surface to 1/4-inch thickness,
on low speed until incorporated.
cut into 3-inch rounds, place a small
Mix on medium speed 1 minute.
amount of filling in the center of the
Shape into a flat disk and wrap in
circle and pinch into 3 corners, leav-
plastic wrap. Refrigerate until cold
ing a hole at the top for the filling to
enough to roll. (Dough may be
show. Place the cookies on an
refrigerated up to 2 days. Leave at
ungreased cookie sheet, 1-inch apart.
room temperature until soft enough
Repeat with remaining dough. Bake
to roll but still very cold.)To make
in a preheated 350° F. oven for 20-25
Mina. In a medium bowl, stir
filling:
minutes until the edges of the dough
peanut butter and jam together. Stir
are
golden. Makes. 3 dozen haman-
in milk.
tashen.
To shape hamantashen: Divide
Prune Filling
dough in half. Cover 1 portion with
1 cup orange juice
plastic wrap. Roll other half between 2
3 cups pitted prunes
sheets of wax paper into an 11-inch
1 /4 cup sugar
circle, about 1/8 inch thick. Using a
Place all the ingredients in the bowl
3-inch cookie cutter, cut out circles (a
of
a
food processor and process until
clean, empty tuna can with both ends
smooth.
May also be made with apri-
removed makes an ideal cutter.) Spoon
cots. Makes 4 cups of filling.
1 1/2 teaspoons filling in the center of,
each circle.
Laura's Pronto Peanut Clusters
Press 3 edges together to make a
From Mimi Markofsky.
triangle, leaving a small opening in
1
cup semisweet chocolate chips
the center for the filling to show. Place
1/4
cup peanut butter
1 inch apart on prepared baking
1
cup
dry roasted, unsalted peanuts
sheets. Reroll scraps, cut out, and fill.
Place
chocolate chips and peanut
Repeat with remaining dough.
butter in a microwave-safe bowl. Heat
To bake: If not baking on cush-
on high for 2 minutes. Remove from
ioned baking sheets, double-pan by
oven and stir until the mixture is
placing 1 baking sheet on top of
smooth. Stir in peanuts. Drop the
another. Bake for 10-12 minutes, or
mixture by teaspoonfuls onto a parch-
until tops are firm. The cookies will
ment or wax paper-lined cookie sheet.
firm up slightly as they cool. If you
Chill until set. You may also spoon c
like them soft, bake the minimum
small amounts of the mixture into
time; for crisper cookies, bake longer.
small baking or candy cups. These
posi-
2
sheets
in
oven,
rotate
If baking
freeze well.
tions halfway throughout the baking
Makes about 24 clusters.
time. If desired, top each with a small
dollop of jam and return to oven for 1
Haman's Ears
minute to set. Cool 2 minutes and
This is an old Sephardic recipe
to
racks.
Makes
about
24
remove
that's
reminiscent of doughnuts.
hamantashen.

