Hamantaschen

These three-corner pastries, originally served to celebrate Purim and now baked year-round in Jewish bakeries, are filled with thick prune or apricot preserves, with poppy seeds, or sometimes in New York, with chocolate. Thick raspberry jam is tasty and looks good, too.

Many recipes for hamantaschen are made with a pareve dough (that is, without meat or dairy ingredients), usually using oil instead of butter. The cream cheese dough used here is flaky and buttery, with the flavor of