Name: Hamantaschen
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 10 min
Total time: 90 min
Ingredients: 1/4 tsp Salt; 6 oz Unsalted butter; 1 tsp Baking powder; 1 Egg yolk; 3 1/4 cups All-purpose flour; ¼ cup Nuts chopped; 1 cup White sugar; 2 tbsp Cornstarch; 2 tsp Vanilla extract; 4 tbsp Orange juice; 12 oz Medjool dates; 1/4 cup Orange juice; 1 tbsp Lemon juice; 1 tsp Lemon zest

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A Purim party is incomplete without Purim cookies also called Hamantaschen or Oznei Haman. These dates Purim cookies are filled with naturally sweet dates and pecans folded in a shortbread cookie dough to get a traditional triangle shape before being baked until they are lightly golden on the edges.

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Tree Nuts

Peanuts

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salt

Butter & Margarine

unsalted butter

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baking powder

eggs

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all purpose flour

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nuts

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cornstarch

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milliliter

vanilla extract

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orange juice

Fruit Based Snacks

medjool date

lemon juice

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lemon

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Dietary Folate Equivalents

These soft and buttery cookies are as fun to make as they are to eat. This raspberry Hamantaschen is a family recipe that involves a chilled butter dough that gets rolled and shaped into little triangles. This version calls for raspberry preserves, but you could try apricot too.

Raspberry Hamantaschen Cookies

Joan Nathan's Chosen Hamantaschen

These filled pastries, tri-cornered to mimic Haman’s hat and served during Purim celebrations, are commonly filled with prunes or poppy seeds, but apricot filling is the author's favorite.

Apricot Hamantaschen

As in all things Jewish, there’s some debate: which came first, Purim or hamanstaschen? Purim is the Jewish festival commemorating the deliverance of ancient Persian Jews from destruction, as recorded in the biblical Book of Esther, also called the Megillah. The triangle cookie we know and love as hamantaschen is associated with the three-cornered hat of Haman, the villain central to the story.  
 
And here’s where the plot thickens and the feasting begins.  
 
According to the Book of Esther, Haman, royal advisor to King Ahasuerus, planned to kill the Jews, but his plan was foiled at a feast where the bold and steadfast Queen Esther reveals her identity as a Jew. Whether there were poppy seed cakes at that feast God only knows. But records show it was customary to eat poppy seeds and honey at Purim-time all the way back to the days of  Rabbi Abraham ibn Ezra, the renowned Jewish scholar of the Eleventh Century.  
 
Poppy seed-filled cakes, called mohn-taschen, were also popular 

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