I got this recipe for hamantaschen a few years ago from a friend of my Father’s who is known to be a good baker. She said they usually work well for her and I found out they do!!!
Choose your favorite filling and use this dough.
Elaine’s Hamantashen (Hamantaschen)
Servings
24 Servings
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup vegetable shortening
- 1/2 cup butter or margarine
- 1¼ cup sugar
- 3 eggs
- 1¼ tablespoons orange juice
- 1½ teaspoons vanilla
- 4 cups all-purpose flour
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 2½ teaspoons baking powder
- Fillings of choice
Instructions
- 1 Cream shortening, butter and sugar together. Add the eggs and blend until smooth.2 Stir in the orange juice and vanilla. Fold in the flour, salt and baking powder. Mix to make a firm but soft dough. Pat dough into a smooth disc, cover and let it rest for 10 minutes.3 Preheat oven to 350°F. Line 2 baking sheets with parchment paper. Divide the dough into 2 or 3 flattened discs and work with one portion at a time.4 Roll out the dough on a lightly floured board to a thickness of 1/8″. Us a 3″ cookie cutter and cut as many rounds as you can. Brush the rounds with egg wash (1 egg plus 1 egg yolk whisked with 1-2 T water and a pinch of sugar).5 Fill with a generous teaspoonful of filling. Draw the 3 sides together. Brush with additional egg wash.6 Bake in the center of the preheated oven for 18 to 25 minutes, until golden brown. Cool on baking sheets.
- Note: You can make the hamantaschen dough ahead of time and refrigerate, wrapped in plastic, for up to 2 days or freeze (either in the dough form or the finished cookies) for a couple of months. If refrigerating, allow the dough to warm up before rolling out.
I updated the flour, glad it worked for you.
Over the years I’ve had so many failed attemps with too many recipes to count. It was such a treat to find one that was easy and really tasty. Thank you!
It appears that the quantity of flour still hasn’t been updated. I adjusted to approximately 4 cups based on the user comments and the dough was better. I also added cut replaced 1/4 cup of the flour with cocoa in half the dough (and increased the sugar a bit) and those came out fabulous.
This recipe should require 4 cups of flour. But with the added flour, it came out perfectly. These hamantaschen were easy and delicious.
So sorry about that, I am not sure how that happened, I updated the orange juice amount and we will double test it to make sure we got it right
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Shame on you for not correcting this recipe!! I trusted you and wasted ingredients and time!
It should have been 1-1/2 Tablespoons of o.j. not cups.
I forgot to include that I also do an egg wash before baking.
Too much OJ. I’ve been using the same ingredients but in different proportions to make hamentaschen for years. This was the recipe we used to bake hamentaschen for our annual school fundraiser. 1-2 Tbsp OJ will be more than enough for the amount of dry ingredients. I use 4 c flour, 3/4 c sugar, 1 Tbsp bp and 1/4 tsp salt. Combine in a bowl. In a separate bowl combine 4 eggs, 4 oz oil and 1/2-1 tsp vanilla (optional). Lightly beat eggs into oil. Combine with dry ingredients adding enough Oj to combine. Kneed for a few minutes to combine together. Roll out to 1/4 in thickness on a lightly floured surface. Using a 3in round cookie cutter yields 30-36 hamentaschen. Line baking tray with parchment paper to silpat. Use filling of your choice and bake for 20-25 min in a 350 degree oven. Just finished baking about 20 doz as a fundraiser and for our Shul using this recipe. Freezes well.
sorry to hear that. the recipe is an older one on the site, before I cam to the company, and I will try and correct it.
thank you!
I was excited to try this recipe, included in this year’s Ten Best Hamentashen Recipes. However the proportions are still wrong even with 4 C flour and the dough is unusable for rolling. Please someone correct this recipe so others don’t waste ingredients!
What sort of fillings do you use? Jam or dried fruit?
21/2 cups flour is not enough for the amount of liquid in this recipe. I bumped it up to 4 cups. Worked well.
Depends on the size, but it should make a bout 36 medium hamantashen.
how many hamantaschen does this recipe make?
Were is the recipe for the filling?
2 1/2 cups flour – I just added it thanks.
You didn’t list the amount of flour for this recipe.