Hamentashen
- Pastry
- 2 1/4 cups flour
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 8 teaspoons sugar (1 tbs = 3 tsp)
- 16 tablespoons room temperature butter (2 sticks)
- 6 tablespoons ice water
- 1 egg yolk
- plastic wrap
- wax paper
- circle cookie cutter
- baking sheet
- Filling
- 18 ounces jam (apricot, seedless raspberry, etc.) or 18 ounces chocolate chips, Reese's s Pieces, etc (apricot, seedless raspberry, etc.)
- Preheat the oven to 325u0b0.
- Pour the dry ingredients into a mixing bowl and pulse twice in a food processor or run for 20 seconds on low in a KitchenAid.
- Slice the butter into the dry mixture.
- Mix until the lumps are smaller than a quarter of an inch in diameter (pea-sized).
- Add the egg yolk.
- Gradually sprinkle water over the mixture.
- Mix with a wooden spoon or rubber spatula until the mixture clumps together.
- Make the dough into a ball, trying to handle it as little as possible.
- Wrap the dough ball in plastic wrap.
- Flatten the dough ball in the plastic wrap until it is approximately 2 inches thick.
- Put the dough ball in the freezer for 10 minutes.
- Remove the dough ball from the freezer and cut it in half.
- Take out two pieces of wax paper approximately 18" long.
- Roll half of the dough ball between the two pieces of wax paper until each side of the dough is 1/4 inch thick. Make sure it is even! The dough will be sticky so sprinkle extra flour on top as needed.
- Cut out the dough using the cookie cutter.
- Repeat steps 14 and 15 with the other half of the dough ball.
- Place about 1 tbs of jam in the center of each circle and fold it into a triangle.
- Put the triangles in the freezer for 5 minutes or the refrigerator for 10 minutes.
- Remove the triangles from the refrigerator or freezer and place them on the cookie pans.
- Bake for 45 minutes at 325u0b0 or until golden brown.
pastry, flour, salt, sugar, butter, water, egg yolk, plastic wrap, wax paper, cutter, baking sheet, filling, apricot
Taken from www.food.com/recipe/hamentashen-445472 (may not work)