I created this Gluten Free Hamantaschen with Raspberry Filling recipe after I was paid a visit by the Rebbetzin, Eve here in Boulder.
Gluten Free Hamantaschen with Raspberry Filling
She had gone gluten free and given up white sugar as well. We had tea in my kitchen and chatted, having such a pleasant time together.
A few days later, Eve emailed me looking for a gluten free recipe for this Jewish dessert.
Easy Jewish Cookies Recipe
Given how special Eve is, I had to create this Gluten Free Raspberry Hamantaschen recipe in her honor.
Hamantaschen Recipe
With 7 ingredients total, it’s the easiest Purim cookie recipe you’ll ever make. Because of that, we refer to it as “Hamentaschen express,” or “McHamantaschen.”
This drive-through gluten free, dairy free treat is perfect for your Purim celebrations and Shaloch Manos.
Gluten Free Hamantaschen with Raspberry Filling
Ingredients
- 2 cups blanched almond flour (not almond meal)
- ½ teaspoon celtic sea salt
- 2 tablespoons palm shortening
- 2 tablespoons honey
- 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
- 1 tablespoon water
- 2 tablespoons raspberry jam
Instructions
- In a food processor, combine almond flour and salt
- Blend in shortening, honey, vanilla, and water
- Roll out dough between 2 pieces of parchment paper ¼-inch thick
- Cut dough in circles using a 2.5 inch cookie cutter
- Chill circles in refrigerator 1 hour
- Drop 1 teaspoon raspberry jam into center of each circle
- Fold dough in to create a triangle, pinch corners firmly
- Bake at 350°F for 8-12 minutes, until cookies are golden brown around edges
- Cool for 30 minutes
- Serve
SCD Cookie Recipe
If you use honey in this recipe, these Hamentaschen are an SCD compliant treat. Either way, they’re so good, they’re like a little grain free jam cookie or mini jam tart.
Vegan Hamantaschen Cookies
To make Vegan Hamantaschen swap the honey out for maple syrup.
Low Carb Hamantaschen Cookies
These Hamantaschen are a lower carb Purim treat.
But if you’re following a Ketogenic Diet use dark chocolate instead of raspberry jam in the center. I like this 80% dark chocolate.
Easy Hamentaschen Recipe
When I started making these Gluten Free Hamantaschen it was challenging to get an exact yield as my younger son, then 9 and now 24 years old, ate them almost as fast as I baked them!
Best Hamantaschen Recipe
Because this recipe is so easy, it’s one I enjoyed making with the boys when they were in elementary school. It was the perfect thing to keep those little hands busy.
When my older son and I discussed the ingredients list and method back then, for these Gluten Free Hamantaschen he was not happy that I didn’t have an exact measurement for the raspberry jam so I’ve added that measurement.
There is a lot of quality control around here.
Elana’s Pantry Quality Control
In some of the first batches, the corners of the Hamantaschen opened up a bit during baking. To remedy this, I pinched the dough firmly and the result was perfect.
When my older son and I debated which adverb to use to describe this step, he suggested, “pinch the dough a little bit more than tenderly.” He was 10 years old when we had that conversation!
How to Make Hamantaschen Cookies
While we’re on the subject of quality control, take a look at my Nut Free Hamantaschen recipe below to see just one of the Hamentaschen techniques I use.
The video below has chocolate filling and in my Gluten Free Raspberry Hamantaschen I use raspberry jam, but you’ll get the idea.
Happy Purim 🥳
Happy Purim! What are your favorite Jewish Desserts?
This post is an oldie but goodie from the archives. I first published this recipe in 2009.
elana says
Thanks for your comments. I am working on a chocolate version of these and hope to have the recipe up before Purim as I’ve had several requests for this on and offline.
ruthi says
yay! can’t wait for the chocolate recipe!!! the one cookie I have been dying for since going gf, and purim’s just not the same without them :)
Elana says
Ruthi, here you go!
https://elanaspantry.com/nut-free-chocolate-hamantaschen/
Enjoy!
Elana
lana says
It is wonderful you created gluten-free, sugar-free cookies that are great. Would you mind to try it to make nuts-free as my son is allergic to all kind of nuts and seeds.
Janine says
I just bought some coconut flour. Would that work for people with nut allergies?
Elana says
Janine, thanks for your comment. That won’t work, but I do have a recipe for Nut-Free Hamantaschen here:
https://elanaspantry.com/nut-free-chocolate-hamantaschen/
Enjoy!
Elana
Hayley says
I love jam filled cookies, and these sound wonderful. Thanks for the recipe!
Elana says
Hayley, you’re welcome!
VeggieGirl says
GLUTEN-FREE HAMANTASCHEN?!?!??!?!?! Elana, you’re my hero!! :-D
Elana says
Thanks VeggieGirl!
Jennifer says
This looks sooo easy!! Well, at least it has very few ingredients!!! Love that part!!! Gotta get to the store and replenish my almond flour. Don’t have 2 cups :(((
Looks very good!!! Thanks so much for sharing!!
Elana says
Thanks Jennifer!
Lauren Purcell says
Hi Elana,
I just wanted to say hello. I was given your name and info from your sister Dina, about a year ago. I know her through my good friend, Bay. I am just now finally truly committing to eliminating wheat from my diet. I am focusing on the wheat for now, although I imagine gluten is close behind. Trying to figure out if it is the wheat alone that makes me feel, or gluten too.
I am enjoying your site very much so far, and will venture into actually baking some of these delicious looking items soon !
I am thankful that you are doing this : )
Lauren Purcell
Elana says
Lauren, thanks for your super sweet comment! So nice to meet you here :-)
Meagan says
Another great recipe! Too bad I don’t have any almond flour on hand.
Elana says
Thanks Meagan!
Emily says
Ohhh! Elana, I love your stories that go along with your YUM recipes :-) Your son is a gem!
McHamantaschen! Love it! I am going to make these this weekend, as I just so happened to pick up some 100% fruit jam at the store earlier this week. I must’ve known :)
I am wondering, why did you decide to give up dairy? I know some of your old recipes include dairy. Is this an allergy or just a health choice? I am allergic to dairy but my husband chooses not to eat it just because he feels better without it, rather than an allergy. (And he can’t say no to my homemade coconut milk ice cream!!) Yum. Have a nice day!
Elana says
Emily, I experiment with giving up various potential allergens at various times to see what my body does best with. Enjoy the hamantaschen :-)
Ruth says
Taking requests??
I would *love* some casseroles that are particularly kid friendly. (I searched for “casserole” in the “super natural recipe” cite you posted, and only came up with a dozen hits, most of them a bit too exotic for my boys, 2 & 4.)
Something that I can make 4 of and freeze on Saturday, and have one meal a week for a month, setting it out to thaw in the morning, cooking as soon as I walk in the door (I have 1/2 hour between getting home from work with boys and boys-losing-it-from-hunger.) Every time I look at a “30 minute meals” type website or cookbook, the recipes are laden with dairy and wheat.
Am I the only working-Mom-of-very-young-kids here?
Thanks for listening!
Alex says
I make a tuna casserole with chopped caulflower instead of noodles.
yaelian says
I am not that crazy about Hamantaschen (here in Israel we have them in every possible flavour…)but yours made of almond flour sound really yummy.
Elana says
Thanks Yaelian!