Honey Tahini Cookies

⏱ 28 mins 🍽 Makes 20-25 🌶 jewish ✅ Easy 🏷 Dessert

These cookies blend the rich, nutty flavour of tahini with sweet honey and warm cinnamon, creating a distinctive treat for the Jewish New Year. The soft dough is chilled, rolled in sesame seeds, and baked until a deep golden colour. They are crumbly when warm but firm up as they cool on a wire rack. This recipe makes 20-25 cookies and takes just 28 minutes from start to finish.

Honey Tahini Cookies

Ingredients

  • 125g butter softened
  • 75g honey
  • 75g golden caster sugar
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract
  • 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
  • 90ml tahini (not roasted)
  • 225g plain flour
  • 5g baking powder
  • 50-60g sesame seeds (regular or a mixture of black and white)

Method

  1. Use an electric whisk or stand mixer to combine the butter, honey and sugar until pale and fluffy. Beat in the vanilla, cinnamon, ¼ tsp sea salt and the tahini until the mixture is smooth.
  2. In another bowl, combine the flour and baking powder. Add this to the wet ingredients and mix at a low speed or by hand until a soft, slightly sticky dough forms. Cover the dough and chill it for at least 1 hr until firm.
  3. Preheat your oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4. Place the sesame seeds in a shallow dish. Line two large baking sheets with parchment. Shape the dough into 25g, walnut-sized balls. Coat each ball in sesame seeds and place them well apart on the sheets. Bake for 18-20 mins until they are a deep golden colour. Let them cool on the sheets for 10 mins before moving to a wire rack to cool fully.

Nutrition (per serving)

Calories128 kcal
Fat8 g
Saturates3 g
Carbs12 g
Sugars5 g
Fibre1 g
Protein2 g
Sodium80 mg

Recipe details

Skill levelEasy
CategoryDessert
Cuisinejewish
DietVegetarian