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Provided by helowy

Categories Dessert

Time 2h15m

Yield 2 batches, 72 serving(s)

Number Of Ingredients 16

20 ounces pitted prunes (2 packages)
12 ounces dried apricots (2 packages)
6 ounces dried peaches (1 package)
10 ounces raisins (1 package)
1 orange (thin skinned or peeled)
1 apple
6 ounces apricot jam (1/2 a small jar or to taste)
1 dash lemon juice
1 cup sugar
3 eggs
1 cup oil
1/2 lemon, juice and zest of
1 teaspoon vanilla
3 -5 cups flour (sifted)
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 pinch baking soda

Steps:

For the filling, simply chop all the ingredients fine in your food processor and mix well.
For the dough, cream sugar and eggs.
Add oil and mix until it turns pale yellow and is no longer shiny.
Mix in lemon and vanilla.
In another bowl combine flour, baking soda, and baking powder.
Slowly add dry ingredients to wet. When it becomes difficult to mix, add more flour and knead.
Preheat oven to 375°F.
To assemble cookies, roll out dough (in batches) to desired thickness (maybe a little thinner than 1/4") and cut into circles of desired size (can use cookie cutter, inverted glass, etc). Put a dollop of filling in the center of each cookie and fold up into a triangular shape, pinching the corners and leaving the center open so that the filling peeks out.
Bake cookies for about 15 minutes until they are beginning to brown. I've always greased the cookie sheet very lightly with non-stick spray, but I don't know that you need to.

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Number Of Ingredients 6

3 Large Eggs
200 grams Sugar
120 milliliters Vegetable or Canola oil. 1/2 cup
1 teaspoons Vanilla extract
375 grams All-Purpose Flour
1 dash Salt

Steps:

In a large bowl, mix together the eggs, sugar, oil and vanilla.
Add the flour and salt and mix until the dough comes together.
Cover the bowl with plastic wrap and leave it in the refrigerator for one hour to firm up.
Preheat oven to 350° F
line 2 or three large cookie sheet with parchment or silicone mats. Divide the dough in half.
Take another two pieces of parchment and sprinkle flour on one, Place one don't have on top and then sprinkle a little more flour on top of the dough. Placed the second piece of parchment on top of the dough and roll on top of the parchment until the dough is 1/4 inch thick. Every few rolls peel back to top parchment and sprinkle a little more flour on the Dough.
Use a 2 to 3 inch glass or cookie cutter to cut the dough. Use a metal flat blade spatula to lift up the circle of though and place it on another part of a flower sprinkled parchment paper. +1 teaspoon of filling in the center of the Dell and then fold the three sides in towards the middle to form a triangle.
Pinch the three sides together very tightly. Tightly pinch the edges a second time before they go into the oven.