Baked Apple and Oat Hamantaschen
- Yield: 6 1x
Ingredients
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Oat Hamantaschen
- 2 eggs
- 1/2 cup oil
- 1/2 cup honey
- 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 1/2 cups white whole wheat flour
- 3/4 cup oat flour (make your own by grinding old-fashioned oats in a food processor)
- 1/2 cup old-fashioned oats
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- 1/4 tsp salt
Filling
- 1 cup raisins
- 1/2 tsp cinnamon
- 2 Tbsp boiling water
Baked Apples
- 3–4 gala apples
- 1/2 cup seedless jam
- sprinkle of cinnamon
- 1 lemon
Instructions
- In a mixing bowl, whisk together the eggs, oil, honey and vanilla. Add the white whole wheat flour, oat flour, whole oats, baking powder, cinnamon and salt and stir until a sticky dough has formed.
- Wrap the dough in plastic wrap and refrigerate 1 hour.
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees and prepare a 9 inch round baking dish with a 1/2 cup of water. You can also use a larger dish and make more apples, of course.
- To make the filling, add the raisins, cinnamon and hot water to a food processor and blend until thick.
- Remove the dough from the fridge and place on a floured surface. Roll out to 1/4 inch thick and cut out 3 inch circles with a cookie cutter or the top of a drinking glass. Fill each circle of dough with a heaping 1/2 tsp of the raisin filling and shape into triangles, pinching the edges shut.
- Gather any remaining dough, roll out again and repeat this process until you have no more dough left. This dough is very forgiving so you can make tons of hamantaschen with it!
- The apples are the last step since you don’t want them to brown. Slice each apple in half and remove the core with a spoon. Rub the inside of the apple with a halved lemon. This will keep the apple fresh and adds great flavor too. Place the halved apples in the baking dish and fill the cavities with seedless jam. Sprinkle the apples with cinnamon then top each one with a prepared oat hamantaschen. You will probably have extra hamantaschen so you can either prepare more apples or baking them separately (baking instructions below) to have some hamantaschen to snack on.
- Bake uncovered for 30-40 minutes. If you see that the hamantaschen are getting too dark and you want to bake the apples longer (this will really be based on the size of the apples you use), lower the temperature to 325 and continue baking.
- Top the warm apples and hamantaschen with more jam, ice cream, whipped cream, whatever you want! You definitely want to serve these warm.
Notes
- If you want to make the hamantaschen without the apples, bake for 10 minutes at 350 on a parchment lined baking sheet.
- You can even save these baked apples in your fridge for a few days and they reheat so well. The flavor will only get better with time.