Healthy Thumbprint Hamantaschen (Egg Free!)

Healthy Thumbprint Hamantaschen (Egg Free!)

I thought I was done with hamantaschen baking this year. My corndog hamantaschen were a huge hit and that was good enough for me! Except every time I bought classic hamantaschen for the kids, my allergic toddler would watch his older siblings enviously and each time I promised myself to make an egg-free version.

I thought about making classic hamantaschen using aquafaba, that slimy juice at the bottom of a can of chickpeas. It’s said to be a great alternative for eggs in vegan baking, and I’ve used it before in muffins. Of course I got busy and my aquafaba-infused hamantaschen experiments went to the wayside.

But then this week, I had a business meeting in my ‘hood, and Chaya brought me a much needed cup of coffee with a side of crunchy thumbprint cookies. The cookies were delicious, so, like any good food blogger, I asked for the recipe. When I heard that the cookies were egg free with few ingredients, I knew I had to whip them up for my son.

I drove home dreaming about the cookies and it hit me – I wanted to make egg-free hamantaschen, so why not make egg-free thumbprint hamantaschen cookies! They had jam anyway, right?


So I got right to work on the 5-ingredient dough, which took less than 5 minutes to make, and I ransacked my fridge for all the jam I could find. I’m kind of a jam hoarder, so I wasn’t surprised to find an assortment of flavors in the back of the fridge, including, blueberry, strawberry rhubarb, apricot, fig and plum (told you I was a jam hoarder! my favorite place to buy them is Homegoods!).

Would  you check out that beautiful jam filling?

The cookies taste like a crisp granola cookie, only mildly sweet, so I couldn’t help but finish them off with some melted chocolate. Chocolate makes everything better.

The true test was giving these to my son, who is prone to scraping the chocolate off anything and everything, instead of biting into it. I’m always reminding him, “Bite, don’t lick!”, but he always goes back to his chocolate (or cheese!) licking when I’m not looking.


I handed him a hamantasch and he held it in his hand and studied it for a minute or two. I thought he was going to start scraping off the chocolate, but to my surprise, he actually took a bite! He continued to eat his way through, enjoying every morsel. Success!

Purim is just two days away, so we’ll call these “last licks!” (pun intended!). If you’ve been looking for that healthy hamantaschen recipe, you’ve got it. And just in time.


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healthy date & almond hamantaschen
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19 thoughts on “Healthy Thumbprint Hamantaschen (Egg Free!)

  1. You have GOT TO make something with aquafaba. I whipped it up for the first time for shabbos and it was mamash like egg whites! unbelievable! Please get together a recipe for a healthy mousse or something of the sort – I am super curious what you would do with this miraculous stuff.

  2. Saw them today on Instagram. These are right up my alley ! Do you think I can replace canola oil with melted coconut oil ? Thanks!

  3. I just made these with my 2 and 4 year olds. Easy, delicious and guilt free recipe. Thanks for sharing! My son was upset he wouldn’t be able to “pinch the edges”, I consoled him with some sort of pinching to make them triangular in the end. Thanks for sharing!

  4. Hi Chanie!

    How do you keep the jelly from melting all over the hamatashan. Everytime I make Hamatashan I have this issue. Thanks!

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