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Prep Time: 0 Minutes Cook Time: 17 Minutes |
Ready In: 17 Minutes Servings: 30 |
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These cookies looked like George Washington's hat to me when I was a child. The three sides fold up to surround a fruit or poppy seed filling. The way to my father-in-law's heart was baking these for him. Ingredients:
3/4 cup sugar |
1/2 cup unsalted butter |
1 large egg |
2 tablespoons whole milk |
1 teaspoon vanilla extract |
2 cups all-purpose flour + 2 teaspoons baking powder |
prune filling |
1 pound pitted stewed prunes (the prunes in bags today work nicely) |
1 cup raisins |
1 tablespoon lemon juice |
1/4 teaspoon cinnamon (i am heavy-handed with that, i love cinnamon) |
1 tablespoon sugar |
Directions:
1. Filling:
2. Chop the raisins and prunes finely. Add the lemon juice, cinnamon, and sugar and mix well.
3. In a mixer's bowl cream the butter and sugar until fluffy.
4. Add the egg, milk and vanilla and mix well.
5. Mix in the flour and baking powder until just combined.
6. Roll this into a ball, wrap and refrigerate at least one hour to rest the dough.
7. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
8. While the dough is resting prepare the filling:
9. On a lightly floured cold surface roll the dough out to be 1/8 thick. Cut out 3 circles with a lightly floured cutter.
10. Put about 1/2 tsp or more of the filling onto the center of each round and fold three sides up, pinch the seams so they will stay up, and then fold each side back a bit so some of the filling (like the crown of the hat) will be exposed.
11. Place the cookies on an ungreased sheet and bake for 16 to 18 minutes.
12. Cool completely on wire racks.
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