THE BEST HAMANTASCHEN

Ingredients:

Dough:
1 1/2 stick margarine room temperature
2 eggs
1 cup sugar
1 tsp Bakers choice vanilla sugar
1/4 cup orange juice
2 1/2 tsp. bakers choice baking powder
3 1/4 cup flour

Filling:

Bakers Choice
Raspberry pastry filling
Strawberry pastry filling
Apricot pastry filling
Chocolate shmeer
Nougat shmeer
Pareve caramel cream
Prune lekvar
Poppyseed filling
Lotus Cream

Directions:

Preheat oven to 350
Mix margarine and sugar until creamy. Slowly add rest of the ingredients (except for filling) and mix until smooth.
On a well floured surface, roll out dough to 1/4 inch thick and cut into circles using a cookie cutter.
Spoon desired filling in the center of each circle.
Pinch sides to form a triangle.
Place hamentashen onto lined cookie sheet.
Bake for 15 to 18 minutes.

Yields 35 hamentashen.