This year I wanted to try and make a chocolate mint hamantashen. I played around a bit with fillings and a nice minty chocolate ganache could work, but to make it a bit easier I found the Junior mint worked perfectly especially if you eat them slightly warmed, they have the perfect gooeyness and they are the exact right size for a junior hamantashen.
Chocolate Mint Hamantashen
Servings
60 Servings
Ingredients
- 1/4 cup vegan butter and 1/4 cup grapeseed oil
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1/4 cup brown sugar
- 3 eggs
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 1/2 cup flour
- 3 tablespoon cocoa powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 box of junior mints
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
- In the bowl of an electric stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, beat butter, oil and sugars until light and fluffy. Add in eggs and vanilla and mix until combined.
- Add in flour, cocoa, and salt, and mix on low speed until the dough comes together.
- Taking about 1/4th of the dough at a time, roll the dough out on parchment paper until about 1/8″ thick. Using a round cookie cutter or glass that is about 2 inches in diameter, cut out circles and move to parchment lined baking sheet. Place one Junior mint inside each circle, fold the edges around the filling to form a triangle. Continue with the rest of the dough.
- Bake at 350 degrees F for 8-10 minutes, enjoy warm.
These ARE GREAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Milk duds are also a kosher candy that works really well for people who don’t love mint!
Thanks, after you wrote I saw that it was all over the internet and found the same thing, I guess that is the risk with mentioning a brand cause things change, but looks like we have two great options to use.
Love the foods you show….Thanks
Junior Mints are dairy, so great alternative.
Hi Bev, I am not sure what you saw, but Junior Mints are certified kosher by the OU, so there is definitely not any pork in them.
Tamar, Junior Mints used to contain pork gelatin, but I dug deeper and found that in 2011 they stopped using gelatin. This is wonderful.
I love chocolate mint and when I saw the title of this recipe, I thought I found a new cookie recipe for this Purim. But when I checked out Junior Mints, I found they contain pork gelatin, is there an alternative candy without pork?
This is so smart! This is brilliant! My favorite flavor (and candy) inside my favorite kind of cookie? Now, why didn’t I think of that?
I was intending to try making Nutella hamantaschen this year, but this is an even more inspired alternative to the traditional apricot, raspberry and poppyseed fillings. Will try it out tonight or tomorrow and may recommend it to my readers on http://www.NiceJewishMom.com... With credit to you, of course!
I used paskez chocolate mint rounds instead to make it pareve . Couldn’t find juniormints and wasn/t sure if they were pareve.