Chunky chocolate tahini cookies
Crispy on the outside, chewy in the centre. These cookies combine brown butter, creamy tahini and dark chocolate to create a wonderful bakery-style cookie that delivers 10/10 flavour.
Servings: 18 cookies
Ingredients
- 100 g unsalted butter cut into cubes
- 90 g tahini
- 15 g Dutch-processed cocoa powder
- 150 g soft brown sugar
- 50 g caster sugar
- 1 egg medium size
- 1 egg yolk from a medium size egg
- 1/2 tsp vanilla bean paste or extract
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 3/4 tsp baking powder
- 200 g plain flour
- 90 g dark chocolate min 70% cocoa
Instructions
Brown butter
- Place the cubed butter into a pan over a medium heat, whisk frequently to break up the milk solids and as it melts you'll hear it'll splutter and foam up.
- Once the spluttering sound suddenly stops, you'll notice the colour of the melted butter/milk solids will have darkened and it will smell lovely and nutty - this is brown butter!
- Remove from the heat and transfer to a large mixing bowl - set aside to cool for 5-10 minutes (you can also pop it in the fridge to cool).
Cookie dough
- Once the browned butter has cooled, add the sugars, cocoa powder and tahini and combine well with a spatula.
- Next, add the egg, egg yolk, and vanilla bean paste and again combine well with a spatula.
- Add the flour, salt and baking powder and stir in with the spatula until the flour is almost combined but there are still some streaks.
- Then add the chopped chocolate and stir until the flour is just combined - it's important not to over-mix.
- Refrigerate the cookie dough for 30 minutes, then remove from the fridge while you preheat the oven to 175c (155c fan forced/345f).
- Use an ice cream scoop to measure the cookies out - as they don't spread much you don't need to leave a huge amount of space between them, but I like to do them in batches of 6-8.
- Bake in the centre of the oven for 15-16 min.
- Allow the cookies to cool entirely on the baking sheet as they will be very soft when you take them out of the oven. Once cooled until firm, you can eat :)
