Purim Kichel

Purim Kichel are delicious cookies shaped like triangles to remind us of Haman’s three cornered hat. This recipe yields 4-5 dozen cookies, a perfect addition to your misloach manot - Purim baskets. Other additions could include Stuffed Dates and Hamantashen.

Ingredients:

• 1 cup sugar
• 1 cup oil (or melted butter or pareve margarine)
• 4 eggs
• 4 cups sifted flour
• 3 tsp. baking powder
• ½ tsp. salt
• ¾ cup poppyseeds (you can use ½ cup, if desired)
• ¾ cup lukewarm water or milk

Cream sugar and oil. Add 1 egg at a time, beating well after each addition. Sift dry ingredients and add poppyseeds. Add dry ingredients to wet mixture, adding the liquid a bit at a time, until you make a stiff dough.

Roll out dough on lightly floured surface or on parchment paper to ¼” thickness. Use a triangular shaped (fluted) cookie cutter or pizza cutter to cut dough into uniformly sized pieces, about 2 inches each. You can also cut dough into squares and then fold each square in half to form a triangle.

Brush kichel with egg wash. You can either sprinkle cookies with a few poppyseeds or dip one side in sugar for a crunchy coating. Place (sugar side up) on prepared cookie sheet.

Bake for about 10 minutes until golden brown. Bake for a few additional minutes if necessary.

Makes: 4-5 dozen, depending on size of cookies

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