Frugal Food Thursday: Double Chocolate Hamantaschen

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Last Sunday was the Jewish holiday of Purim, which celebrates the events of the Scroll of Esther.  It's celebrated by reading the scroll, dressing up in costumes, eating (and drinking!) at a festive meals, and sharing gifts of food - especially hamantaschen.

Hamantaschen, or "Haman's pockets," are three-cornered filled cookies named for the villain of the Purim story.  Traditionally, they're filled with poppyseed or prune filling.

But I had a chocolate hankering when I was making mine, and I wanted to use up a free Hershey's chocolate bar from CVS.  (What a deal!)  So, I decided to add cocoa powder to the dough and use the chocolate bar as the filling - double chocolate hamantaschen.  Yum!

DOUBLE CHOCOLATE HAMANTASCHEN

2 eggs
1/2 cup oil
3/4 cup sugar
1 tsp vanilla
3 cups flour
1/2 tbsp baking powder
1/4 tsp salt
1/4 cup unsweetened cocoa
1 4-oz Hershey's chocolate bar

Beat the eggs.  Add in the oil, sugar, and vanilla.

In a separate bowl, mix the flour, baking powder, salt, and cocoa together.  Add the dry ingredients a little at a time to the wet ingredients, beating at first with a wooden spoon and kneading with your hands when the dough becomes stiff, until all the dry ingredients have been incorporated.

On a floured board, roll out a portion of the dough with a rolling pin. Using a 4-inch diameter cookie cutter (I used a circular quart-sized container), cut out rounds. Fill the middle of each round with one square from the chocolate bar, broken into small pieces.  Fold up the hamantaschen by folding up the bottom until it touches the filling, then the left side, and then the right, so that it forms a triangle.  Add the unused dough back to the rest of the dough.  Continue until all the dough has been used, approximately 14-16 hamantaschen.

Bake at 350 degrees on a greased cookie sheet for 15 minutes.  Remove from the oven and allow to cool on a wire rack.

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