Hamantaschen cookies are triangular-shaped butter cookies traditionally filled with jam (raspberry and apricot are popular), or a spread made of prunes or poppy seeds. But fillings aren't limited to those - you'll find hamantaschen made with chocolate chips, chocolate spread, Nutella (a chocolate-hazelnut spread), or any number of imaginative fillings and filling combinations. There are many different recipes for hamantaschen, but the most common starts with a butter-rich sugar cookie dough. Some recipes include cream cheese, either instead of or in addition to, butter. Baker's choice. This hamantaschen recipe yields buttery cookies with a chewy texture, and a subtle orange scent and flavor. This delicious cookie dough can be used for other sugar cookie dough-based, like Cinnamon Roll cookies.