page_title: Hamantash
section_title: Vanilla pastry cream with chocolate chips
hierarchical_section_title: Hamantash / Sweet fillings / Vanilla pastry cream with chocolate chips
caption_attribution_description: English: A photo of a vanilla cream Hamantash with chocolate chips.
context_page_description: A hamantash is an Ashkenazi Jewish triangular filled-pocket cookie, usually associated with the Jewish holiday of Purim. The name refers to Haman, the villain in the Purim story. In Hebrew, hamantashen are known as אוזני המן, oznei Haman, literally 'Haman's ears'.
  The shape is achieved by folding in the sides of a circular piece of dough similar to a shortbread, with a filling placed in the center. Hamantashen are made with many different fillings, which are traditionally sweet, including mohn, lekvar, nut, date, apricot, raspberry, raisins, apple, vanilla pastry cream with chocolate chips cherry, fig, chocolate, dulce de leche, halva, or even caramel or cheese. Their formation varies from hard similar to a shortbread to soft doughy casings.
context_section_description: Israeli baker Uri Scheft offers hamantaschen filled with a vanilla pastry cream and chocolate chips at Lehamim/Breads Bakery, his bakeries in Tel Aviv and New York City. A recipe for this filling is also featured in Scheft's cookbook.
caption: Hamantash filled with vanilla pastry cream and chocolate chips prior to baking.
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