Milk Chocolate Chip Tahini Cookies

When you love peanut butter as much as I do, you have a favorite peanut butter cookie recipe. And, in my case, my ultimate favorite is from my friend Jennie, who writes the blog, One Sweet Mess. So, when I was working on my recipe for tahini cookies, my other favorite thing (I have a lot of favorite things), I started out with her base.

What's great about her recipe is that it has the substance of a thick chocolate chip cookie but with an overwhelming flavor of peanut butter. The result is a thick, chewy on the inside and crispy on the outside cookie. Tahini, a sesame paste, behaves very like peanut butter in baked goods but the taste of the sesame tends to be slightly more bitter than peanuts. So while I normally use a semi-sweet chocolate when baking, I found that milk chocolate was better balanced with tahini.

Make sure you use a sesame paste that has no added salt and stir it well before adding to the dough. Then give the cookies a little sprinkle of sea salt for that amazing sweet and salty thing we love so much. Enjoy!

Yield: 24 Servings

Author: Anita Schecter

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Milk Chocolate Chip Tahini Cookies

Prep time: 15 MCook time: 10 MTotal time: 25 M

Recipe for thick and chewy chocolate chip cookies flavored with tahini.

Ingredients:

• 1 Large or jumbo egg
• 3/4 Cup light brown sugar
• 1/2 Cup granulated sugar
• 1 Stick (8 tablespoons) unsalted butter, at room temperature
• 1 Teaspoon vanilla
• 1 Cup tahini (plain sesame paste)
• 1 1/2 Cups all-purpose flour
• 1 Teaspoon baking soda
• 1 Teaspoon salt
• 1 Cup milk chocolate chips
• Sea salt for topping

Instructions:

1. Pre-heat the oven to 375 degrees.
2. Cream together the egg, brown sugar, white sugar, butter, vanilla and tahini using a hand or stand mixer.
3. Beat in the flour, baking soda and salt until smooth.
4. Stir in the chocolate chips and scoop 1 oz. balls onto a baking sheet lined with parchment paper. Keep the cookies 2 or 3 inches apart (you'll likely have to work in batches), top with a sprinkle of sea salt and bake for 10 minutes.
5. Allow to cool before removing from the baking sheet. The cookies will spread somewhat while cooling.

Notes:

(Adapted from One Sweet Mess peanut butter chocolate chunk cookies) 

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