Hamantaschen Recipe | Oznei Haman

1. Make the dough: in a large bowl or in a food processor, combine flour, powdered sugar, salt and baking powder. Add butter and blend until crumbs are formed.
2. Add egg yolk, vanilla extract and 1 tablespoon of milk. Blend until dough is formed, if needed add another tablespoon of milk. Do not over blend.
3. Flatten the dough into a disk form, cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate for 30 minutes.
4. Preheat oven to 170C (340F).
5. Take the dough out of the fridge, roll the dough into about 1/4-inch (1/2 cm) thick. cut into 6-8 cm circles. Fill each circle with date paste and seal as shown on the video. Combine the leftover dough, roll in and repeat the process.
6. Arrange the cookies on a baking tray lined with parchment paper and bake for 12-16 minutes, until slightly golden.
7. Allow to cool, then dust with powdered sugar.

Notes:

• You can use any filling that you like, such as: Chocolate spread (Nutella), poppy seed filling (traditional Jewish filling), jam and more.
• To add more flavour, you can add to the date filling some cinnamon and chopped nuts.
• To make the dough you can use food processor, hand dough blender as I used in the video or even by hand.
• It is important to not overmix the dough, otherwise it will become hard.