For moist, buttery hamantaschen, you need a straightforward, rich, shortbread-like cookie dough. You can add orange zest for citrus flavor, but save the orange juice for your poppy-seed filling — and ...

Hamantaschen, Purim’s best-known treat, are the M.I.A. of pastries – many controversies, some political and some trivial, swirl around them. I would prefer to sidestep most of these controversies. Let ...

Hamantaschen, Purim’s best-known treat, are the M.I.A. of pastries—many controversies, some political and some trivial, swirl around them. I would prefer to sidestep most of these controversies. Let’s ...

If you’re on the hunt for the best hamantaschen, you’re in for a treat! These delightful, triangular pastries traditionally enjoyed during the Jewish holiday of Purim have found their way into the ...

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 ...

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 ...

How can you not love Purim, the festive Jewish holiday, when the heroine of the Biblical story is named... Esther (do take a closer look at this story's byline). Make that Queen Esther. The Queen and ...

Butterfield Market has the small, buttery cookies from the pastry chefs Mark Fiorentino and Claudio Miolin. By Florence Fabricant Purim, one of the happiest Jewish holidays, is coming up at sundown on ...