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The Best Chocolate Chip Tahini Cookies in the World
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This recipe for The Best Chocolate Chip Tahini Cookies in the World are a deliciously nutty twist on classic chocolate chip cookies. These chocolate chip cookies are slightly crunchy on the outside, with a chewy and soft inside!
Looking for other delicious chocolate chip cookie recipes? Try my Espresso Chocolate Chip Cookies or these Candied Walnut Chocolate Chip Cookies!
This Chocolate Chip Tahini Cookies Are My Absolute Favorite
OK so I’m not going to lie, these chocolate chip tahini cookies are the BEST cookies I’ve EVER made. EVER.
Which is, like, a huge deal considering that my mom made cookies so much growing up that my friends nicknamed them Katharine Canfield Cookies (or as my little sister called them, “Kaffin Canfeeld Cookies”). So when I say these are the best cookies I’ve ever had- not just ever made, ever had—ehm, yeah. That’s big.
What Is Tahini?
OK, so some of you may be asking “What the heck is Tahini? I know I’ve heard of it, but what is it?” Well, tahini is sesame seed paste. So, think peanut butter, but with sesame instead of peanuts. Tahini is especially popular in Middle Eastern recipes, and you’ve probably eaten it without realizing it. Tahini is often reserved for savories recipes, like hummus, but it’s the perfect complement to sweet desserts too!
If you’ve tried tahini before and didn’t like it, chances are that you tried bad tahini (it totally exists!). Good tahini is uber creamy and slightly nutty, but there are quite a few less-than-amazing tahini brands sold at the store. (Bad tahini is weirdly dry and bitter).
Why Use Tahini In Chocolate Chip Cookies?
Using tahini in this easy cookie recipe resulted in a chocolate chip cookie with a slight nutty taste. It’s not overwhelming at all. Just enough to make you go “Ooh!”
This recipe is especially good for those of you who can’t have peanuts, as tahini is reminiscent of peanut butter.
What Do These Chocolate Chip Tahini Cookies Taste Like?
I recipe tested these babies four times to get them perfect, and that’s exactly what they are. They’re perfect.
The texture is just out of this world. They’re slightly crunchy around the outside, but the middle is gorgeously chewy and soft. The mouth-feel is just like a bakery-style cookie where you’re like, wait, what is that magic they used on these cookies I can’t stop eating them.
K, so enjoy every last bite of these babies, because they are seriously the best chocolate chip tahini cookies in the world.
- Yield: 12 large cookies
- Category: Dessert
- Method: Bake
- Cuisine: American
The Best Tahini Chocolate Chip Cookies In The World
These Chocolate Chip Tahini Cookies are a deliciously nutty twist on classic chocolate chip cookies. Slightly crunchy on the outside, with a chewy and soft inside, they are amazing!
- Yield: 12 large cookies
- Category: Dessert
- Method: Bake
- Cuisine: American
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup salted butter, room temperature
- 3/4 cup light brown sugar, packed
- 1/4 cup granulated sugar
- 1 large egg, room temperature
- 1/2 cup tahini
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 1/4 cups whole wheat pastry flour (seriously! it helps w the nuttiness*)
- 6 oz dark chocolate, roughly chopped (can also use 1 cup chocolate chunks or chips)
Instructions
- In a standing mixer fitted with a paddle attachment, cream together butter and both sugars until fluffy, about 2 minutes. Add in egg and cream for an additional 2 minutes. Add in tahini, vanilla extract, and salt and cream until light and fluffy, 1 minute more.
- Mix in baking soda and flour until just combined. Toss in chopped chocolate and mix to combine.
- Remove dough from bowl and wrap tightly in plastic wrap. Chill in fridge for at least 2 hours, but up to 24 hours. This part is necessary to get a nice, chewy cookie!
- Preheat oven to 350°F. Line 2 cookie sheets with parchment paper. Roll cookie dough into 2 inch balls and place on cookie sheets, leaving 2 inches between each cookie. Push cookies down slightly. Bake for 10-12 minutes, until cookies are the slightest bit golden around the edges. They will look puffed and underbaked, but will continue to cook as they cool. Allow cookie to cool on cookie sheet for 10 minutes before transferring to a cooling rack.
- Top with a sprinkle of sea salt and serve!
Notes
This recipe really requires air to be whipped into the batter, so really mix things for the full time in the recipe. If you don’t have a standing mixer, use a hand mixer and whip it good! 🙂
*if you don’t want to use whole wheat pastry flour, you can substitute it with 1 cup plus 3 tablespoons AP flour
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Candied Walnut Chocolate Chip Cookies
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This chocolate chip Tahini recipe looks fabulous! Could you please share your tahini brand that you use? Thank you
We love Soom Tahini! If we can’t get that one we also like the Whole Foods brand one 🙂
Made these with some accidental mods that turned out just fine anyway: I used AP flour (didn’t have the pastry flour), but I also added 1/2t baking powder in addition to the baking soda (got distracted/wasn’t reading carefully). The dough got ~4hr rest in the fridge and baked up nice, thick and tender. I added Maldon salt flakes before baking, and a little after too for the sparser-looking cookies. The kids loved ’em (no surprise there), but they were also tasty enough to surpass my husband’s usual eyebrow-of-approval and get a fully verbalized ‘these are some *really good* cookies.’ Yes. Yes they are.
I made these yesterday. I changed them up a little bit, I used vegan butter instead of regular butter and 1/4 cup applesauce instead of an egg. I missed the end where she said to refrigerate for a while if you like crispy cookies, so I baked a few and they were soft and yummy. I also scooped into individual size portions and froze them for when I want a treat, then I can bake them in my toaster oven rather than a whole batch in the regular oven.