I had to do something for Purim Katan, so I made this recipe for Peanut Butter Filled Chocolate Cookies and shaped them like hamantaschen. The original recipe calls for making a chocolate cookie dough and a peanut butter filling. You roll out balls of each and then wrap the peanut balls in the chocolate balls. To make the hamantaschen, instead of completely enclosing the peanut butter balls, just wrap the chocolate dough around the way that you would for hamantachen. Note: to get the edges of the chocolate balls nice, I flattened out the balls, and then used a cookie cutter to trim the edges. This way I got a nice round of dough.
Update: these were really delicious. Definitely would do these again. These are great to make with kids because it just involves rolling balls of the two doughs, flattening the chocolate dough, and putting the pb filling inside and folding it together. Less messy than rolling out with a rolling pin and spooning in jam/lekvar.
Peanut Butter Filled Chocolate Hamantaschen
Adapted from here
In a bowl, cream together the margarine, peanut butter, and sugar(s):
1/2 cup margarine, softened
1 cup granulated sugar
1/4 cup peanut butter
Add in the following ingredients to the creamed mixture:
1 egg
1 tablespoon water
1 teaspoon coffee powder [dissolve in water]
1 teaspoon vanilla
Add the following dry ingredients to the batter:
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
1-1/2 cups all-purpose flour
Now, make the PB filling by combining the following in a separate bowl:
3/4 cup sifted powdered sugar
1/2 cup peanut butter [I think I used closer to 3/4 cup peanut butter; use enough to make a moist dough]
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees while you shape the cookies. Form chocolate dough into 30-32 balls (1 1/4″ diameter). Shape the peanut butter mixture in the same number of balls (3/4″ diameter). Flatten the chocolate balls into 1/8″ thick rounds, trimming edges if necessary with a cookie cutter to make neat rounds. Put a peanut butter ball into the center of each round and fold up three sides and pinch together the edges to make a triangle shape. Go here for more detailed shaping instructions.
Place cookies 2 inches apart on an ungreased cookie sheet.
Bake cookies in preheated oven for 8 minutes or until they’re just set. Let cookies stand for 1 minute. Transfer cookies to wire racks; cool. Makes 32 cookies.
Other Hamantaschen:
Midnight Mint (like Girl Scout Thin Mints)
Lemon Sunshine
Basic
Darth Vader Hamantaschen
Angelina Ballerina Hamantaschen
Hamantaschen Apple Galette
Fruit Tart Hamantaschen
Hamantaschen Puff Pastry Shells
Hamantaschen French Toast Casserole
Tags: chocolate, cookies, hamantaschen, peanut butter, peanut butter filled chocolate cookie, Purim, Purim Katan
Pragmatic Attic 
February 18, 2011 at 8:10 pm |
Looks delicious! There are hamantaschen in my Viennese baking books, but I haven’t tried any yet. I’ll bet Paul would really love these!
February 20, 2011 at 8:21 am |
There are hamantaschen in your Viennese books? That’s interesting, which books?
And, these were a huge hit, so I think Paul really would love these if he is a PB and chocolate fan.
BTW, I have a regular hamantaschen instructions on my blog: https://pragmaticattic.wordpress.com/2010/02/18/hamantaschen/
February 21, 2011 at 4:46 pm |
The recipes are in The Viennese Pastry Cookbook by Lilly Joss Reich. Both the Wiener Tascherln (“Viennese Pockets”) and the Powidltascherln (“Prune Butter Pockets”) are made into little triangles with the filling in the middle like hamantaschen. I don’t know why they’re called “tascherln” unless that’s an Austrian thing. In German, pocket is “tasche” (“taschen” is plural). I haven’t tried the recipes yet, but they sound yummy. Your hamantaschen look gorgeous, by the way. I’m getting hungry! Thankfully it’s almost tea time.
February 21, 2011 at 9:48 pm |
I googled the names of those recipes, and came up with recipes on German language sites for what look like turnovers. They are triangles, with filling, but they are triangles like apple turnovers, formed from a square folded in half, as opposed to a circle folded into a triangle. Do Lilly’s recipes call for folding squares of dough or circles? (I have to get a copy of that cookbook!)
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March 8, 2014 at 4:03 pm |
Hello! I am going to make these next week and wondered if I could use trans fat free margarine? Also, some recipes call for butter/margarine to be added to the peanut butter and sugar- do you know what the difference in tast/texture may be? Thank you.
March 9, 2014 at 10:11 am |
I have never had a problem substituting trans-fat free margarine for regular margarine. I think adding margarine would dilute the peanut butter flavor, which is a bad or good thing, depending on how you feel about intense peanut butter flavor. I would leave the filling as is–why add more margarine than you have to?
March 15, 2014 at 12:32 pm |
Thanks so much! I would like to roll these out rather than shape them in to balls- would that work? Also, what texture do these cookies have? Making them tomorrow and will let you know how they come out!
March 15, 2014 at 10:56 pm |
I haven’t tried rolling out this dough, but I think it would work. The texture more soft than hard and crisp.
March 4, 2015 at 10:33 am |
how much water do you use to dissolve the instant coffee in?
March 4, 2015 at 2:59 pm |
You dissolve the 1 tsp. of coffee powder in the 1 Tbsp. of water listed ABOVE where the coffee is listed in the ingredient list. Don’t add an additional Tbsp. of water.
So, you add to the creamed mixture:
1 egg
1 tablespoon water
1 teaspoon coffee powder [dissolved in the 1 Tbsp. water listed ABOVE]
1 teaspoon vanilla