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 ...

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 ...

(New York Jewish Week via JTA) — Move over black-and-white cookies. For two weeks every year, hamantaschen, the triangle-shaped filled cookies associated with Purim, take center stage in bakeries all ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Melissa is a writer based in Brooklyn. Purim starts on the evening of Thursday, March 13. And part of the Jewish tradition of ...

Hamantaschen can have different fillings, such as poppy seed, raspberry or apricot jam (Credit: Laurel Kratochvila) The ancient dramatic tale of Purim is celebrated every spring with the buttery, ...

As an adult with young kids of my own, I get it, but as a child, it didn’t occur to me that my mother had already spent hours setting everything up. (JTA) — My mother always loved to cook and bake, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Just about every Jewish holiday has its own signature dessert: Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish new year, is ushered in with honey cake; ...

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Aly Walansky is a NY-based journalist who covers cocktails and dining. The hamantaschen is perhaps the most recognizable symbol of ...

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 ...

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 ...

(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 ...