Ezra raised an eyebrow while he thought about it. Teaching her to bake would be difficult, she didn't seem like the type of girl who spent her free time in the kitchen, but he wouldn't deny her the request. He enjoyed the smell fresh pastries and cakes. Baking them calmed his nerves and he could usually forget about whatever was bothering him, even if it was just for a moment. He nodded slowly as he brought his hands up to his face and thought for a moment. He wanted to give her an easy recipe. Something that would be nearly impossible to mess up so that she wouldn't feel overwhelmed or get discouraged. Cookies. There was no way she could mess that up. 

He quickly turned on his heel and began to shuffle through some papers inside of a metal box. He had his grandmothers recipe somewhere within these piles of documents that was so easy a mouse could do it. He finally found what he was looking for and brought it over to her. "Cookies. Not just any cookies, my Savta's cookies. Impossible for anyone to mess up. It was the first thing I learned to make, so it should be the first thing you learn. Everything is basic and common knowledge. If you plan on baking like me then you start here. If you plan on baking like my father I can give you a complicated pie recipe, but that usually ends in disaster even when I try. Something always goes wrong with the homemade filling," he said getting lost in his thoughts, "anyway, cookies. I'll read the directions to you and then you can read them to yourself. Memorize them."

He held the paper in front of him like he was ready to give a lecture to a bunch of students. "These are called Hamantaschen cookies. We usually only make them during Purim, which is a holiday, but I like them all year round. We need cream cheese, unsalted butter, sugar, vanilla, kosher salt, flower, apricots, raspberries, and egg whites. These are my favorite kind of cookies, so don't mess up," he said with  a smile to show her he was only joking.

He took hold of her arm and led her to the kitchen so that they could started. He grabbed all the ingredients from various places around the kitchen and laid them out on the table before them. They would make the filling fresh just like his grandma taught him. He looked over at her to see if she was still up for it.

"If it's too much we can bake bread...I just thought you'd prefer something sweet..." He said a little anxious. Had he assumed wrong about her? Was she joking about wanting to bake? He bit his lip as he looked at all the items in front of him. This recipe suddenly felt like it was too complicated and he mentally kicked himself for picking it.  



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4 oz. cream cheese, softened
8 tbsp. unsalted butter, softened
1⁄4 cup sugar
1 tsp. vanilla extract
1⁄4 tsp. kosher salt
1 cup flour
2 tbsp. apricot preserves
2 tbsp. raspberry preserves
1 egg white, beaten
Instructions
In a bowl, combine cream cheese, butter, sugar, vanilla, and salt, and beat with a mixer until fluffy. Add flour; beat. Form dough into a thin disk. Wrap disk in plastic wrap; chill for 30 minutes.
Transfer dough to a floured surface; roll to a 3⁄16" thickness. Using a 2 1⁄2" round cookie cutter, cut dough into rounds. Reroll scraps; repeat. Transfer the rounds to 2 parchment paper–lined baking eets. Place about 1⁄2 tsp. apricot preserves in center of half the rounds; place about 1⁄2 tsp. raspberry preserves in the center of remaining rounds. Brush egg white around edges. Fold in edges to form a triangular package, leaving a small opening at the top. Refrigerate filled cookies for 30 minutes.
Heat oven to 350°. Bake cookies, one sheet at a time, until lightly browned, about 15 minutes.
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