10 Days of Hamantashen, Day 6: Double Chocolate Coconut Macaroon Hamantashen
I’ve been on something of a coconut bender lately, so I knew I’d have to do a hamantashen flavor this week that would involve coconut! I debated adding finely shredded unsweetened coconut or coconut extract to the dough and using a chocolate filling, but then I thought, what if I flip it– how could I […]
10 Days of Hamantashen, Day 5: Mexican Chocolate Hamantashen
This hamantashen flavor is brought to you by the letters ‘S’ and ‘D’, as in ‘San Diego’. Last winter when I returned from living in Israel sooner than expected, I was lucky to be able to crash in San Diego for a few months with my good friends. I honestly don’t know what I would […]
10 Days of Hamantashen, Day 4: Za’atar Feta Knishentashen
They say, “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it”. In the case of hamantashen and knishes, two very different and beloved Jewish pastries, there definitely ain’t nothin broke. But sometimes two great things can create an even better marriage. Take, for example, the “knishentashen”. The… k-nishen-what-now? This mash-up of hamantashen and knishes was created by the […]
10 Days of Hamantashen, Day 3: Ugly-Delicious S’mores Hamantashen
Italians have a cookie called brutti ma buoni, which means ‘ugly but good’. They are meringues with nuts or chocolate chips folded into them, and they have nothing whatsoever to do with Purim, hamantashen, or Judaism in any way; the only thing they have in common with these Ugly-Delicious S’mores Hamantashen is just that– they […]
10 Days of Hamantashen, Day 2: Cinnamon Dulce de Leche
I used to think March was such a blah month. Aside from St. Patrick’s Day, there just wasn’t much going on, and it’s such a very, extremely, annoyingly long month in my spring semester on the school calendar, not to mention we lose an hour of sleep. But when I started making hamantashen a few […]
10 Days of Hamantashen, Day 1: Oreo Hamantashen
This is momentous. I’ve been planning 10 Days of Hamantashen for a couple of years, and I’m over the moon at finally finishing to write up that many dough and filling variations! If I have to pick a single Jewish cookie as my favorite, I would probably have to choose hamantashen. Thanks to Uri Scheft’s […]
Chocolate-Halva Babka
As much as I love contemporary baking like layer cakes, cupcakes, and pastries, there are few baked goods that conjure childhood nostalgia like babka. Aside from my mom’s birthday cakes shaped in the number of my age each year, the most memorable and most loved cake that she made (and the most labor-intensive) was her “ugat-sh’marim”, or yeast […]
Apple Orange Rye Honey Cake
We interrupt this regularly scheduled Italian Desserts blog post to wish you a Belated Shana Tova! If you celebrate the Jewish High Holy Days, I hope your Jewish New Year is off to an excellent start. I was planning to post a spiffy honey cake for you before the holiday, but it didn’t quite work out as […]
Toasty Twisted Triangles: S’mores Hamantashen
UPDATE 3/8/2020: Stop. Do not pass Go. Do not collect $200. Do not make these hamantashen. I made a way better and easier version of S’mores Hamantashen this year, and I’d like to redirect you to make those instead! I’ve been wanting to make Hamantashen, the traditional cookie for the Jewish holiday of Purim, for […]
