RAINBOW-TASHEN!! Same recipe with a little pop of color just because I want my cookies as extra as I am!!!! All you do is divide the dough in 4 and knead your preferred food coloring in each before smooshing pieces of alternating colors together and rolling between sheets of parchment! You can still reroll scraps!! Happy Purim!!!!
Lemon-Poppy Frangipane Hamantaschen
Yield: about 20 hamantaschen
For the Filling:
1¼ cups almond flour
½ cup sugar
¼ cup poppy seeds
2 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted
2 teaspoons lemon zest
1 teaspoon almond extract
½ teaspoon kosher salt
1 egg
For the Dough:
1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter, softened
1 cup granulated sugar
1 large egg
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 teaspoon kosher salt
3 cups all-purpose flour (405g)
1. Make the filling: In a medium bowl, stir all the ingredients until a smooth paste forms.
2. Make the dough: Line two sheet pans with parchment. In the bowl of a mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, cream the butter and sugar until ...