Tahini Cookies
Delicious nutty melt in mouth cookies made with tahini and butter goes well with cup of tea or coffee.
Servings: 36 no
Calories: 60kcal
Ingredients
- 8 tablespoon /1 stick/113g unsalted butter softened at room temperature *
- ½ cup/ 100g sugar
- 1 cup +2 tablespoon / 135g all-purpose flour
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- ½ teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- ½ cup tahini
- ¼ cup / 120g blanched and peeled almond
Instructions
- Pre-heat the oven 350 F and line baking sheets with parchment paper.
- In a medium bowl mix flour, salt and baking powder and set aside.
- In a large bowl cream, the butter and sugar well. Then add flour-mix, vanilla extract and finally tahini and mix until everything combined well.
- Transfer about ½ tablespoon cookie dough or the size of ping pong ball into prepared baking sheet. Slightly press the dough and place blanched almond in the center.
- Bake about 14- 15 minutes rotating the baking sheets halfway through until lightly golden and beginning to crisp.
- Enjoy with cup of coffee or tea.
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Notes
*use ½ cup of vegetable oil instead of butter if you want to make it vegan, you can use gluten free flour to make it gluten free too.
Nutrition
Calories: 60kcal | Carbohydrates: 4g | Protein: 1g | Fat: 5g | Saturated Fat: 2g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 1g | Monounsaturated Fat: 2g | Trans Fat: 1g | Cholesterol: 7mg | Sodium: 18mg | Potassium: 31mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 1g | Vitamin A: 80IU | Vitamin C: 1mg | Calcium: 10mg | Iron: 1mg
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