Chag Sameach. Purim. That holiday of costumes, noisemakers, bad jokes, drinking, and miracles. Or sheer blind chutzpah. And tiny little triangular cookies.
My go-to hamentaschen recipe, saved from a million Purim carnival bake-a-thons in my teens, has orange juice, so the only change I made to Rose's recipe, which is a soft, buttery sugar cookie dough, was to added about one and a half tablespoons of powdered Meyer Lemon zest, leftover from the posset. The flavor effect was subtle.
For fillings this time around, I went with prune butter and the pear jelly I got last week, and I made very small cookies. My teen book discussion group approved.
5 comments:
Tiny is good! I like tiny cookies! :D Yours are cute! I wonder if prune butter taste better than the dried prunes? I like fruit prune, but I don't really like the dried up version.
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Looks great. Like your description.
Chag sameach. Don't forget to get drunk until you can't tell the difference between blessed is Mordechai and cursed is Haman. :)
I can't believe I never heard of this holiday. The prune butter and pear jelly sounds really good. I made the prune filling in the book and it was very good. Seeing these cookies so makes me wish I'd made a double batch. Adding the lemon was a great idea. Orange sounds good, too. Would love to know what books your teen group reads.
I would have preferred these a tad smaller. Love that you filled them with pear too - I want to try that! If you get a chance, I hope you'll stop by and see my post.
Patricia @ ButterYum
http://www.butteryum.org/roses-alpha-bakers/2015/2/11/tbb-hamantaschen-purim
Hi Katya--Your cookies look delicious--I wish I had made a couple of other fillings. I would like to try them again.
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