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Purim Family Fun Activities and Recipes

Purim is Sunday! My kids love to wear costumes and bake hamentaschen, triangular cookies with filling. Now for my secret hamantaschen recipe: gingerbread with nutella filling! We make both these and the traditional ones and give away boxes to our friends and family. Here are my favorite Purim family fun activities and recipes.


Gingerbread Hamentaschen:

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  • Instead of men cookie cutters, use circles. If you don’t have a cookie cutter, you can use a glass. Put the leftover dough (in between circles) into a ball and roll out again.

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  • Imagine an equilateral triangle inside your circle, with the three corners touching the outside. Put a spoonful of Nutella in the center. Pull up the three edges so that it’s shaped like a triangle.

  • Bake at 350F for 10 minutes


  • Traditional Hamentaschen: Leeba Aminoff’s family recipe is fantastic!

    Ingredients:

    • 4 eggs

    • 1.25 cups sugar

    • 0.75 cup canola oil

    • 2 tsp vanilla

  • 3 tsp baking powder

  • 0.5 tsp salt

  • 4.5 cups flour

  • Instructions:

    • Mix eggs and sugar together on medium with a blade mixer.

  • Add oil, vanilla, baking powder and salt. Gradually add flour.

  • Form into a disk and refrigerate for 30 minutes.

  • Roll out on a surface, using plenty of flour to prevent sticking, to 0.25” thickness.

  • Cut rounds with a cookie cutter. Fill with jam or nutella and fold the sides into triangles, per the above recipe.

  • Bake at 365F for 7 minutes.

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    Mishloach Manot are boxes that you give your friends to celebrate. Giving them also gives you good luck! It’s part of the Jewish tradition of mitzvah, or good deeds.

    To read the rest of this article including ideas for costumes, carnival, and tzedakah, please visit the Gooseling Parenting Blog at http://gooseling.com/2014/03/11/purim-family-fun. This article was written by Vicky Keston, Co-Founder and CEO of Gooseling, dedicated to teaching children social & life skills through video game apps. Cavity Dragons is the first game designed to encourage kids to brush their teeth. Beachwood Mompreneur Lisa Danielpour is Vicky Keston's sister and partner/co-founder of Gooseling.
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