You might not have heard of hamantaschen (pronounced hah-mentash-in) or Purim, the Jewish holiday these shaped filled cookies represent, but this tasty treat might just become your favorite ...

Hamantaschen are cookies shaped like triangles and filled with jam or poppyseeds — or, sometimes, other stuff, like pizza or marzipan sprinkles, depending on your adherence to tradition and your ...

Blot out Haman’s name in the most delicious possible way. (New York Jewish Week via JTA) — Move over black-and-white cookies. For two weeks every year, hamantaschen, the triangle-shaped filled cookies ...

The only thing you really have to stick to is shape; a hamantaschen that isn’t triangular isn’t really a hamantaschen. Use a basic dough from the godmother of Jewish cuisine, Joan Nathan, but by all ...

We expect a lot from hamantaschen. These triangular jam-filled cookies are baked by Eastern European Jews to celebrate the Purim holiday, which begins the evening of March 18. In addition to ...

This week, Jewish people across the world will celebrate Purim, a holiday that commemorates the deliverance of the Jewish people from the ancient Persian empire. According to the story, Queen Esther ...

The quintessential Purim treat is hamantaschen. This Yiddish word means “Haman’s pockets”; the name of these triangular filled cookies in Hebrew, oznei Haman, means “Haman’s ears.” They are served as ...

This week at Breads Bakery in New York City, one cookie is bound to outsell the rest. "Hamantaschen are the most perfect little cookie," said owner Gadi Peleg. "The most requested item that we get to ...

As much as food writer and recipe developer Emily Paster loves sweet hamantaschen, she enjoys taking a broader view of Purim foods. The perfect example is her savory beef hamantaschen. “They are a bit ...

(JTA) — My mother always loved to cook and bake, but I was never welcome in the kitchen. Not every night before dinner, not before Shabbat when she made challah every week, and not in the leadup to ...

MADISON (WKOW) -- The Jewish holiday of Purim started Wednesday and a local bakery is using this year's celebration to give back to Ukraine. The holiday celebrates the saving of the Jewish people by a ...

They fill my dreams; they haunt my waistline. And each year, as Purim approaches, I am seized with fear: My name is Sarah, and I am a hamantaschen addict. Raspberry, cherry, apricot, strawberry or ...