Pb&J Hamantaschen

Ingredients:

1/2 loving cup sugar
1/2 loving cup butter, room temperature
2 eggs, at room temperature
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
2 cups flour
1/2 loving cup peanut butter pulverisation (I used PBFit)
1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder

 jam (I used elderberry jam)

Directions:

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

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

Roll the dough out onto a clean, floured surface. When the dough is nigh 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 to a greater extent than or less jam into the middle of each circle. Fold 3 sides towards the middle together with press downward to shape a triangle.

Do non re-roll dough. Cut scraps into pocket-size shapes together with bake as-is, if desired.


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

Yield: nigh 2 dozen cookies

My thoughts:

Happy Purim! Another year, to a greater extent than or less other variety of hamantaschen!

This twelvemonth was a trivial fraught because I precisely got dorsum from the IACP conference inward NYC which was fun but tiring together with my rolling pivot broke spell I was rolling out the cookies! Oy! I didn't grapple to brand a whole batch unfortunately but the ones I made were actually good. What is a to a greater extent than classic combination than peanut butter together with jelly? Of course, for hamantashen, you lot involve to role jam non jelly but the results are precisely every bit tasty every bit the classic sandwich, I promise.

I used peanut butter pulverisation (which is available nearly everywhere now!) instead of prepared peanut butter because I wanted the cookie to convey that butter cookie sense of savour together with texture together with it is difficult to produce that when using peanut butter every bit your fat. Peanut butter pulverisation plant to a greater extent than similar flour together with hence you lot tin forcefulness out convey that butter cookie but alongside the peanut butter flavor.

I wrote an cream cheese based hamantaschen, chocolate hamantaschen, pareve/vegan hamantaschen filled alongside kiwi jam,  orange ginger hamantaschen, together with pareve/vegan fig-orange hamantaschen spiked alongside butternut squash, and double orangish hamantaschen.

Quick note: peanut butter dough is a fleck to a greater extent than crumbly together with finicky to live alongside than other rolled cookie dough. Roll to  1/4 inch thick together with cutting precisely once. Re-rolling the scraps is non advised. If desired, only cutting out shapes alongside the scraps.  Do non brand the cookies every bit good thick or they volition separate when you lot shape them.