Tahini Cookies
This vegetarian builds tahini, quick-cooking oats and chopped walnuts into a proper meal you can have ready in about 55 minutes. Below: the ingredients split into pantry staples and a quick shopping list, a built-in serving scaler, and the method in 6 steps.
You'll mainly reach for oven and baking sheet. At easy difficulty across 6 steps, it's a good one for a busy evening. As written, it's meat-free.
What you'll need
Shopping list (3)
Pantry staples (you likely have these)
Diet: vegetarian β no meat or fish, based on every ingredient listed below.
Contains: Tree nuts Sesame
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How to make it
- Preheat the oven to 175 C and line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
- In a mixing bowl, stir the tahini and honey together until smooth and glossy, then beat in the vanilla extract and salt.
- Add the ground cinnamon, quick-cooking oats and chopped walnuts, folding until you have a thick, sticky dough; if it feels too loose, let it rest for 5 minutes so the oats absorb moisture.
- Scoop rounded tablespoons of dough, roll each into a ball and place them about 5 cm apart on the prepared sheet, then gently flatten each with the back of a spoon.
- Bake for 10 to 12 minutes until the edges are golden and set; the centres will still be soft.
- Let the cookies cool on the sheet for 10 minutes to firm up before transferring them to a rack, as they are fragile while warm.
You'll use: Oven Β· Baking sheet
Ingredient substitutions
- Honey
- maple syrup Β· agave
Tips & common questions
How long does Tahini Cookies take to make?
About 55 minutes from start to finish β an estimate based on the 6 steps and 7 ingredients. Times vary with your kitchen and how much prep you do ahead.
What can I use instead of honey?
Try maple syrup. See the substitutions section above for more swaps.
Can I scale this recipe up or down?
Yes β use the servings control above the ingredients and every quantity rescales automatically (fractions included). Cooking times stay roughly the same; very large batches may need a little longer.
Is Tahini Cookies vegetarian?
Its ingredients contain no meat, fish or shellfish, so it is suitable for vegetarians. Check any cheese for animal rennet if that matters to you.
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Adapted recipe β rewritten in our own wording from an open-licensed community cookbook, not yet independently kitchen-tested by Consomee. How we source, test & correct recipes.
Tahini Cookies is adapted by Consomee from the Wikibooks Cookbook, rewritten in our own wording and used under CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo: Tahini cookies.jpg by Ofer Deshe, CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons. We add the serving scaler, ingredient tools, timing and structure β how we source recipes.