Double Orangish Hamantaschen

Ingredients:

2 1/2 cups flour
1/2 loving cup sugar
1/2 loving cup butter, room temperature
2 eggs, at room temperature
1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon orangish extract

orangish jam/marmalade (I used Seville Orange Fiordifrutta)

Directions:

Preheat oven to 375. Line 2 cookie sheets alongside parchment paper.

In a large bowl, trounce together the butter, sugar, extract as well as egg. Add the remaining dry out ingredients. Mix until smooth.

Roll the dough out onto a clean, floured surface. When the dough is almost a 1/4 inch thick, cutting 2 1/2-3 inch circles out of the dough using a cookie, biscuit or doughnut cutter. Place them on the prepared pans.

Spoon approximately jam into the middle of each circle. Fold 3 sides towards the pump as well as press downwards to shape a triangle.

Bake 12 minutes or until golden. Cool on a wire rack.

Yield: almost 3 dozen cookies

My thoughts:

Happy Purim! Any vacation where you lot convey an excuse to brand cookies is a proficient ane to me!

I dear hamantaschen as well as the even behind why nosotros brand these cookies this fourth dimension of year.  I wrote an cream cheese based hamantaschen, chocolate hamantaschen, pareve/vegan hamantaschen filled alongside kiwi jam,  orange ginger hamantaschen, as well as pareve/vegan fig-orange hamantaschen spiked alongside butternut squash. As you lot tin tell, I actually similar the favor of orangish inwards my hamantaschen! It is ane of the few fruits that are inwards flavor this twelvemonth as well as although this recipe uses extract as well as jam, it is a flavor that actually fits into this fourth dimension of year. Plus orangish juice is a mutual improver to hamantaschen that produce non purpose butter (some people who proceed kosher prefer a butter-less pareve/vegan version) as well as thus this gives you lot that flavor precisely likewise the richness of butter. Since nosotros produce non proceed kosher, using butter isn't a concern.

While nosotros convey made hamantaschen several times, I actually this mightiness hold upward our best batch yet! The dough was slow to move alongside (no refrigeration needed) as well as every cookie held its shape--no jam escaping or unfolding! Plus the cookie was super tender as well as flavorful. Hamantaschen win!