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 ...

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, ...

The month of Adar is upon us and that can only mean one thing: hamantaschen. For the Purim newbies, hamantaschen are triangle-shaped cookies with various fillings. Classic hamantaschen will have ...

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 ...

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 ...

(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 ...

Note: Three-cornered hamantaschen, the quintessential Purim cookie representing Haman’s pocket, his hat or his ear (depending on whom you ask), is traditionally stuffed with poppy seed or dried fruit ...

Chef-pastry chef Rossella Yona created for the Biscotti chain ahead of the holiday a colorful and character-filled collection of hamantaschen. They are excellent, and the creativity is evident in the ...

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, ...

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 ...