Hamantashen #2

1 cup sugar

1/3 cup oil

1/3 cup shortening

3 eggs

1/2 cup orange juice

4 cups flour. (I used 3 cups of Bette Hagman's gf mix and 1 cup brown = rice flour.)

3 teaspoons baking powder- For puffy hamantashen, I add 1/2 tsp to 1 whole tsp more.)

1 teaspoon salt

1-2 teaspoons xanthan gum

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F and lightly grease cookie sheet(s). The recipe calls for one more egg beaten to brush over cookies, but I  never do this.

For hamantashen, have ready mohn, jam, jelly, cocolate chips, peanut butter or soy nut butter. .

Cream sugar, oil and shortening in mixer. Add eggs and juice, mix well. = Blend dry ingredients and mix with wet until well mixed.  Form walnut size balls, flatten in palm of hand or on wax paper or on the cookie sheet. Then add filling. Then pinch up sides  to form a nearly closed triangular cookie. Put on cookie sheet. Bake for approximately 20 minutes. Recipe says makes 4 dozen hamantaschen.