You can make hamantaschen without making cookie dough from scratch with this simple, 2-ingredient hack using store-bought pie dough and pie filling! Thaw the dough, roll, fill, shape and let the hamantaschen baking begin.
If you can only find frozen pie dough shells, let thaw and simply roll them out on a floured surface.
Lemon Meringue Pie Hamantaschen
Servings
24 Servings
Ingredients
- 2 frozen pie doughs thawed completely
- ½ cup lemon pie filling
- Garnish: powdered sugar melted white chocolate, lemon or lime zest
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375°F. Line 2 cookie sheets with parchment paper.
- Dust countertop and rolling pin with a little flour. Roll out pie dough to ¼-inch thickness.
- Cut out 3-inch circles with a round cookie cutter or even a drinking glass. Place 1 teaspoon lemon pie filling in the center of each circle. Fold the left side over the filling into the center, then fold the right side over and then fold the bottom up, creating a triangle, pinch points to secure.
- Place hamantaschen on prepared cookie sheets and bake for about 10-12 minutes, until just golden.
- Let hamantaschen cool then decorate as desired. In the photo we melted white chocolate to drizzle and dip and finished with lime zest.
Sorry we made these in th US but I’m sure whatever you find here will work.
In Israel what are the exact products you used please?
No, but it should work
Have you tried using a lemon pudding mix for the filling? How would that work?
Have you tried this with a lemon pudding mix for the filling?
So sorry to hear it didn’t work, it is such a great hack and we have tried it with both refrigerated and frozen pie dough, so I am not sure what could have happened.
I’ve been baking hamentaschen for some 45-50 years. Saw this with pie crusts and lemon filling and thought, wow that’s great!
I was very disappointed in the outcome. Certainly did not look anything like the picture. I never thought to use lemon filling before so I will try my dough recipes and use the lemon filling. Hopefully it will be better than this recipe!