I love to bake. Especially cookies. My current cookie craving is my husband's Aunt Eileen's beautiful hamantashen for Purim every year, which arrived today in a USPS box. I came home from the gym and jammed one in my mouth and it was divine.
What's a hamantash, you ask? It's a triangular cookie with filling peeking out of the center. Old school fillings include prune or poppy seeds, but my favorite is apricot jam. The soft cookie dough has a slightly sweet and lemon-y flavor, like a very soft linzer cookie, minus the WASP-y name and confectioner's sugar.
I also love that the cookies are a kind of Jewish joke. They're made for the Jewish holiday of Purim, and the cookies mock the tri-pointed hat of Haman, the villian in the Book of Esther. Basically, it's a badass cookie that looks wholesome but has a bit of a sly sense of humor. It's a cookie after my own heart.
Aunt Eileen, I'm coming over for a baking lesson!
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