Name: Apricot Hamantaschen
Ingredients: 1 tsp. freshly grated orange zest; 4 cups dried apricots; 3/4 cup chopped walnuts; 1-1/2 tsp. baking powder; 4 large eggs; 3-1/2 cups all-purpose flour; 1 tsp. freshly grated lemon zest; 1-1/2 cups granulated sugar

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These filled pastries, tri-cornered to mimic Haman’s hat and served during Purim celebrations, are commonly filled with prunes or poppy seeds, but apricot filling is the author's favorite.

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These soft and buttery cookies are as fun to make as they are to eat. This raspberry Hamantaschen is a family recipe that involves a chilled butter dough that gets rolled and shaped into little triangles. This version calls for raspberry preserves, but you could try apricot too.

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Joan Nathan's Chosen Hamantaschen

As in all things Jewish, there’s some debate: which came first, Purim or hamanstaschen? Purim is the Jewish festival commemorating the deliverance of ancient Persian Jews from destruction, as recorded in the biblical Book of Esther, also called the Megillah. The triangle cookie we know and love as hamantaschen is associated with the three-cornered hat of Haman, the villain central to the story.  
 
And here’s where the plot thickens and the feasting begins.  
 
According to the Book of Esther, Haman, royal advisor to King Ahasuerus, planned to kill the Jews, but his plan was foiled at a feast where the bold and steadfast Queen Esther reveals her identity as a Jew. Whether there were poppy seed cakes at that feast God only knows. But records show it was customary to eat poppy seeds and honey at Purim-time all the way back to the days of  Rabbi Abraham ibn Ezra, the renowned Jewish scholar of the Eleventh Century.  
 
Poppy seed-filled cakes, called mohn-taschen, were also popular 

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s’mores hamantaschen are my latest mash up! S’mores hamantaschen? Oh these were GOOD. what are s’mores hamantaschen? Hamantaschen are a triangle-shaped cookie typically served during the Jewish holiday Purim – and was one of the first posts I shared here. I kept things classic back then, using a basic cream cheese dough and old-school fruit…

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