Sweet, Delicious and flavoured with Cardamom!
Date-Walnut Hamantashen
Servings
36 Servings
Ingredients
- 2/3 cup pareve margarine
- 1/2 cup Sugar
- 1 egg
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
- 2 1/2-3 cups sifted unbleached flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/4 tsp. salt
- 1/2 cup chopped dates
- 1/2 cup chopped walnuts
- 2 – 3 Tbsp sugar
- 1/2 – 3/4 tsp ground cardamom
- 1 Tbsp. Rose water optional
Instructions
Preparation
- 1 Cream the shortening with sugar. Add egg and continue creaming until smooth.2 Add the vanilla. Stir in the sifted flour, baking powder, and salt until a ball of dough is formed (a food processor is excellent for this).3 Chill dough for 2-3 hours, or overnight.4 Prepare filling using chopped dates, walnuts, sugar and optional rose water. 5 Preheat oven to 350 degrees.6 Using 1/4 of the dough (keep rest in refrigerator), roll out on a lightly floured board to a thickness of 1/8 inch.7 Cut circles of dough with a drinking glass or round cookie-cutter.8 With your finger put water around the rim of the circle. Fill with 1 teaspoon filling and fold into three-cornered cookies.9 Bake on a well-greased cookie sheet 10-16 minutes, until the tops are golden. 10 Repeat, using rest of dough and filling.
Special instructions
- Sweet, Delicious and flavoured with Cardamom!
- Source:
- This recipe came from my grandmother. The filling is delicious. Alternate fillings can also be used but this is my favourite.
These were good.
I made the hamentashen yesterday. It’s a very easy recipe. I replaced the chopped dates with chopped dried cherries mixed with some honey. They were delicious.