Every year I try to come up with new and fun hamentashen flavors. I always make sure to make a bunch of the traditional poppy because those are our favorites, but it wouldn’t be Purim around here without at least a few crazy hamentashen (like s’more or chocolate chip cookie dough). I have some fun hamentashen flavors in the works right now (stay tuned or follow me on instagram for a sneak peek) but this year I wanted to make something completely different as well. Hamentashen ice cream sandwiches.

It is my dream to one Purim only serve food in hamentashen form all day (hamentashen breakfast pastries, hamentashen meat pies, hamentashen shaped veggies etc) but for now the ice cream sandwiches are a fun start. I decided that in keeping with the traditional flavors of hamentashen I would make an apricot ice cream, but feel free to use any flavor that sounds good. Since it isn’t currently apricot season I used a combination of frozen apricots and dried apricots, and the ice cream came out fantastically. It is a little more subtle in flavor than the intense roasted apricot sorbet I usually make, but it is much creamier and works better with the cookies in the ice cream sandwich. The vanilla adds a floral undertone to the apricot flavor which makes the ice cream utterly addictive. I look forward to making this ice cream again when the fresh apricots come back into season.