The classic English Wedding Cake is really a fruit cake loaded with sugary, delicious dried fruit—making it the ultimate baked indulgence for Tu B'Shevat.
Come early fall—still late summer in Israel—pomegranates and citrus fruits stud the shuk stalls, and I use the colorful bounty to inspire my Sukkot cooking.
The way I find myself connecting to my great grandmother is through baking, especially her Chocolate Chip Sour Cream Coffee Cake and Apple and Cinnamon Sweet Noodle Kugel.
These hamantaschen are indulgently filled with crushed pineapple, chopped nuts, apricot jam and prunes. Think of them as scrumptious kitchen-sink Purim cookies.