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Arcy

Tue, Mar 06 2012, 12:06 am

it's all in the way you close them ladies...

Here is what NOT to do:

Because they will come out looking something like this. (at best)

the trick is to put only a little bit of filling in the center, like this:

It's all in the way you close them before baking... try to close them as much as possible... like this:

here is (part of) the batch

and this is the end result:

IMHopinion

Tue, Mar 06 2012, 12:10 am

I'm hungry

imamiri

Tue, Mar 06 2012, 12:13 am

I learned long ago that pinching them can make them open, but folding them as you've done, leads to nice, non-explosive/stay closed yumminess.

Mommastuff

Tue, Mar 06 2012, 12:19 am

does anyone fold a square in half to make a triangle? I've never seen it except in an older drawing. You couldn't see the filling but it sounds much easier!

Arcy

Tue, Mar 06 2012, 12:40 am

imamiri wrote:

I learned long ago that pinching them can make them open, but folding them as you've done, leads to nice, non-explosive/stay closed yumminess.

thanks,

Arcy

Tue, Mar 06 2012, 12:41 am

Mommastuff wrote:

does anyone fold a square in half to make a triangle? I've never seen it except in an older drawing. You couldn't see the filling but it sounds much easier!

that would be more of a pirogi, not really a hamentash I think.

Strawberry2

Tue, Mar 06 2012, 6:11 am

Great

Thanks for sharing your tips with us!

Liba

Tue, Mar 06 2012, 6:17 am

Your first set would make nice uterus cookies though. LOL

middy

Tue, Mar 06 2012, 9:23 am

mine came out looking more like the first ones! Crying

middy

Tue, Mar 06 2012, 9:23 am

Liba wrote:

Your first set would make nice uterus cookies though. LOL

now why didn't I think of that??

mamaleh

Tue, Mar 06 2012, 9:37 am

I think it depends on the dough. I pinch mine and they stay closed, bli ayin hora (I haven't baked them yet this year)

ValleyMom

Tue, Mar 06 2012, 10:21 am

WHERE IS YOUR RECIPE????????

I was not planning to attempt to bake hamantashen ever, ever again in this lifetime but your pics gave me the fortitude to persevere...
SO
PLEASE pass along the recipe.

THANKS!!!

Arcy

Tue, Mar 06 2012, 10:28 am

middy wrote:

Liba wrote:

Your first set would make nice uterus cookies though. LOL

now why didn't I think of that??

hhhmm, I'm wondering the same thing, Middy.... why wouldn't ANYONE think of that?!?!?! ;-)

Last edited by Arcy on Tue, Mar 06 2012, 10:38 am; edited 1 time in total

Arcy

Tue, Mar 06 2012, 10:37 am

ValleyMom wrote:

WHERE IS YOUR RECIPE????????

PLEASE pass along the recipe.

THANKS!!!

3 C flour
1/2 C sugar
8oz C shortening (I used 1 stick of margarine)
2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp vanilla
1/2 C seltzer (I used apple juice, but you can use any juice)
3 egg yolks (I fried the whites and fed it to my DS for lunch)

~cream margarine & sugar. add rest of ingredients. I found that the dough was a bit too crumbly, so I added a bit of oil to make it less crumbly and more like cookie dough... I literally added drops of oil at a time so that it wouldn't become too greecy... I think in total I added about 1/2-1 tsp of oil mayb a bit more...

bake at 350 for 15 mins...

it really is one of the best cookie doughs I ever made... it was very soft and flavorful (and easy to work with)

enjoy!

Imma2+2

Tue, Mar 06 2012, 3:54 pm

Thanks so much for posting this! The photos really helped.
They turned out so well, I made a second batch, and there are so few "flops" that we aren't getting more than one each to taste test!
The few that did open were either because I didn't put the choc chips in well, or because I wasn't careful with the folding.