Debating the Best Hamantaschen Filling

Evelyn, Noah and Eric fill the hamantaschen.

Happy Purim! I love this holiday.

It's been years since I made hamantaschen. Like, since college. They're not usually my favorite cookie, and they're available for sale everywhere. But this year, on a whim, because Noah really wanted to make them, we did.

I found a great recipe in a cookie cookbook from Rosie's Bakery. It calls for a lot of butter. Essentially, these are more like shortbread cookies than the more cakey, dry hamantaschen that I'm not too fond of. So that took care of the cookie problem.

But the filling? I haven't decided what the perfect filling is. We used cherry preserves in some, chocolate chips in others and both the preserves and the chips in a few, and they were all quite tasty.

What's your favorite filling? And what have you tried that absolutely didn't work (so you can warn the rest of us!)?