How Not to make Hamentaschen

Today my friends and I celebrated Purim by making Hamentaschen (a triangle-shaped cookie with a filling, usually jam or chocolate)...but we re-dubbed them Failtaschen for good reason.
And if you want to make Failtaschen of your own, follow these simple steps!

1. Go to your local grocery store and purchase 3 logs of Pillsbury pre-made sugar cookie dough. Also purchase an assortment of jams and chocolate chips.
2. First, try to cut the dough. When that doesn't work, roll it out with a rolling pin. Make sure the table in your dorm is clean and free from drawings of Hobbits doing unsightly things...(yes, that was there until we washed it off...). When it has trouble rolling, sprinkle water and flour.
3. Forget to put flour on the table so that the first few Hamentaschen stick there. Peel them off and reshape. Then put down flour.

4. Fill with various jams or chocolate chips.You may go for one, pure filling, or mix multiple ones. Our most creative was filled with blueberry preserves, apricot preserves, strawberry jam, and 1 chocolate chip. We named her Queen Natasha. The following is a picture of her before she went into the oven...and after.

5. Overfill some hamentaschen and name them the Hoover Dam, then try to scoop some out and watch it implode (that one's name is Boris. We got creative with our Failtaschen).

The Hoover Dam (repaired with a little extra dough)








Boris.

6. Place fifteen hamentaschen on a pan and watch them melt together and cook over a period of 25 minutes...
7. Cut them out of the pan and enjoy your Failtaschen!

(In order to make Hamentaschen that look a little more like actual Hamentashen (i.e., not flat), use a recipe for actual Hamentaschen dough. I was busy and a bit lazy--the dough has to be refrigerated overnight--so I bought sugar cookie dough. And that didn't work so well. They tasted delicious though!)

Happy Purim!