Hamantaschen

Preparation info
  • Makes

    30

    cookies
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Zingerman's Bakehouse

By Amy Emberling

Published 2017

  • About

Amy: This scrumptious triangular filled cookie is eaten to celebrate the Jewish holiday Purim in late winter or early spring. Haman was a vizier of ancient Persia who plotted to kill all the Jews in the empire, and Purim celebrates his defeat by the Persian (and Jewish) queen Esther. It was one of my favorite holidays when I was little, becau