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Nutella Hamantashen (Hamentaschen) Recipe

By Tamar Genger
Difficulty: Easy |

I like to make healthy stuff, but once in a while I do go all out for a holiday treat and this is the best way. Using my grandmothers dough recipe with nutella, how can you go wrong.

INGREDIENTS
  • 1 cup margarine
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 2 eggs
  • 21/2 cups flour
  • 21/2 teaspoons baking powder
  • 2 teaspoons vanilla
  • 1/2 cup Nutella
INSTRUCTIONS
  1. Mix margarine, sugar and vanilla in food processor. Add eggs. In a separate bowl mix 2½ teaspoons baking powder with 2½ cups flour. Add the flour mixture to the wet mixture and mix until dough forms.
  2. Roll out dough on a lightly floured surface to 1/8 inch thickness. Cut circles with a small cup and drop 1/2 teaspoon Nutella into the center. Bring the dough up around the filling and press the three ends together forming a triangle.
  3. Bake at 375 degress on a well greased cookie sheet for 10 to 15 minutes. Optional: brush hamantashen with egg wash before baking for a more golden color.

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  • oops, meant alternate

  • Fast way to make for the kids is sugar cookie dough, push up into three edges like the tri-corn hat and make a thumbprint indention and alternate with orange jam and cherry jam. Bake per instructions.

  • I made these today, I used 1/2 cup of oil instead of the stick of butter and the dough came out pretty greasy, I was a little nervous about it but once baked they seem to be fine! I still have to taste them though ;)

  • Crescent dough is SO unlike hamantaschen dough that using it for this wouldn't make sense at all. Crescent dough is basically a puff pastry, while hamantaschen dough is basically a shortbread.

  • NativeofSF, I think SteveG was correct. The hamentashcen dough was from the poster's grandmother, and most Jewish people would have made their dough dairy free for religious purposes. The nutella was added by the author, therefore making the cookie dairy anyhow, which is why SteveG said go ahead and use butter, since the margarine was probably for religious, not culinary, purposes. If there is a...+READ

    NativeofSF, I think SteveG was correct. The hamentashcen dough was from the poster's grandmother, and most Jewish people would have made their dough dairy free for religious purposes. The nutella was added by the author, therefore making the cookie dairy anyhow, which is why SteveG said go ahead and use butter, since the margarine was probably for religious, not culinary, purposes. If there is a difference in what margarine would do to the cookie, then that's interesting of you to note, but most religious Jews interchange the two, based on religious requirements, which are more important, and what SteveG was trying to explain.-COLLAPSE

  • I made 2-6 pies every weekend without fail when I worked as the cook at the convent of Notre Dame. I liked to mix it up by embellishing the fillings and making them something extraordinarily fantastic.I was known and still am known as someone who has the "touch" for pie dough and all things similar. I have used a recipe a few times that does require a very small bit of baking powder. It makes a...+READ

    I made 2-6 pies every weekend without fail when I worked as the cook at the convent of Notre Dame. I liked to mix it up by embellishing the fillings and making them something extraordinarily fantastic.I was known and still am known as someone who has the "touch" for pie dough and all things similar. I have used a recipe a few times that does require a very small bit of baking powder. It makes a difference to the texture- sort of like a soft snowdrift effect. Not really flaky but more mealy in a good way. It's done with American pie dough recipes with call for a small amount of sugar. The cream of tarter I am guessing about but I think it might give it a flavor boost similar to buttermilk.I have used milk plus cream of tarter and lemon juice for recipes using soda as a l evener or where I want the buttermilk flavor in my baking. It does a good job of approximating the same flavor in the end product.-COLLAPSE

  • Just grabe a can of crescent dough, unroll, spread the dough with nutella and roll-up. A quick and stupid easy treat.

  • Perhaps someone, out there, might offer an explanation as to the inclusion of baking powder in this recipe? As it's merely a short dough formulation, what advantage is potentially offered by including a mixture of sodium bicarbonate and cream of tartar to this simple dough?

  • FYI Alma Zensen: The Smart Balance website [www.smartbalance.com] states its "Original" product is "Great for cooking, baking, frying and spreading"! One assumes it's under the aegis of a margarine's definition. Good luck.

  • IN the future, SteveG, please refrain from offering "half–pregnant" [sic] responses which are misleadingly incorrect. The inclusion of margarine, in greater percentages, than butter — in a short dough recipe — offers a more malleable dough. A solely, butter–based dough is a highly– fractionable product, to work with, prior to baking.

  • FYI almond tree: Nutella is NOT Chalav Yisrael!!! This product is certified ONLY as kosher/dairy by the Orthodox Union. It ain't Chalav Yisrael, i.e. "Jewish milk"! "Milchik" only signifies the product is kosher, as having been "rabbinically supervised" [sic] with respect to the product NOT being parve or fleishig in its production. The OU hecture signifies only this. Nutella is NOT a Glatt...+READ

    FYI almond tree: Nutella is NOT Chalav Yisrael!!! This product is certified ONLY as kosher/dairy by the Orthodox Union. It ain't Chalav Yisrael, i.e. "Jewish milk"! "Milchik" only signifies the product is kosher, as having been "rabbinically supervised" [sic] with respect to the product NOT being parve or fleishig in its production. The OU hecture signifies only this. Nutella is NOT a Glatt kosher "Dairy" [strictly Orthodox] product!" [C]holovi" and "milchig" are non-sequitur terms. With apologies and Chag sameach.-COLLAPSE

  • Alma, I think the margarine is intended to make them dairy-free for religious reasons. But Nutella has dried milk in it...so just use butter if that's what you like!

  • Instead of margarine, can you use butter or a butter subsitute like Smart Balance?

  • Important note: Nutella is cholovi/milchig. If you give these to friends, please let them know. Purim sameach!

  • I've been doing this for years...they are delicious!

  • This sounds yummy~ !