Yesterday I decided I wanted to bake hamentashen with my kids. Hamentashen are a traditional triangle cookie eaten on the jewish holiday of Purim.
Yay me. Mom of the year.
Only one problem.
I don’t bake.
No particular reason why, I just don’t. (Probably has something to do with the clean-up… And sugar, which we try to not use by the cup full.)
Anyhooo, someone recently sent me a link to an etsy shop that sells tiny polymer clay fake foods and inspiration hit.
I present:
NO EAT HAMENTASHEN KEYCHAINS!
(Like the fruitcake on the goyim, they can never be too hard and they last forever!)
Ingredients:
1- large block of beige polymer oven bake clay. (Also known as “Caucasian skin to the doll making population)
2- small block of red, purple orange, brown polymer clay. Choose whatever colors will work for your “filling” of choice
3- brown piece of chalk
4- rolling pin
5- 1.5″ or so round cookie cutter/glass/Prozac bottle
6- aluminum foil
7- cookie sheet
8- jewelry parts
-I loop (I think that’s what they’re called)
-Jump ring
-Key ring
Directions:
1- roll the skin clay thin but not too thin.
2- use the cookie cutter to cut circles.
Lay them on foil on a cookie sheet.
3- roll the jelly colors and make equal sized little marbles. We used a different cookie cutter to get them sized correctly.
4- form the jelly into a fat lil triangle and center it in the flesh colored circle.
Tap it with a toothpick to add some jelly texture.
5- fold up the three sides and pinch the corners.
6- insert the I-loops into the tops.
7- scrape the chalk into dust and use an old paintbrush or makeup brush to dust an uneven layer of golden baked goodness on your hamentashen.
8- bake according to packaging instructions- about 275 for about 15 minutes.
9- (not shown) after they cool, spray them with an aerosol gloss sealer.
…..oh, shiny!
10- apply jump ring + key ring
KEYCHAINS for the whole class!!
11-remind your kids who the coolest mom in town is! (They need constant reminders. I’m certain by the time they are teenagers they’ll totally believe me, right?!?!
PS- last week I made teeny tiny ones that went on necklaces. Same process, smaller cookie cutter.
