Cocoa-tahini cookies with sesame crunch from Dorie's Cookies (page 131) by Dorie Greenspan

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  • ozzzzzz22 on August 24, 2025

    These are great. Wonderful mix of deep chocolatey and deep nutty flavours. I think the difference in spread noted by some others is impacted by the use of a silpat vs. parchment paper (Dorie says you can use either). I bake them exactly as instructed (no chill) and always get exactly 24 cookies. If I use parchment paper they spread more, if I use a silpat they spread less. Both are good in my book.

  • et12 on September 23, 2023

    This made for a good and interesting flavoured cookie. A bit like sesame snaps but not as hard (still, this is a crunchy cookie). The batter scoops cleanly and the cookies spread perfectly. Ended up making thirty in a batch.

  • IsaSim on November 19, 2017

    Loved these! Followed instructions by the book, did not chill overnight but baked right away and used a medium cookie scoop (Orchid, #40—capacity 1 1/2 tablespoons, as described on p. 25) and got 24 cookies. They spread as expected and the dough was easily scooped, so I guess issues encountered by another member below would have been caused by the overnight chill. Also used dark chocolate.

  • clcorbi on January 29, 2017

    I like these--they are not too sweet and have a nice, complex flavor from the sesame crunch. If you enjoy the flavor of tahini in sweets, you'll probably like these cookies. Not sure I'd remake them, though, because the sesame crunch component is a little fussy to make, and I have enjoyed other cookies from this book more (the new classic chocolate chip cookies and the chocolate Biscoff cookies, to be exact). I also want to note that my cookies did not spread out at all, like Dorie noted they would (and like the photo shows). This could be because I chilled the dough overnight, but even so, the dough was so thick that I had trouble imagining it would ever spread into a lacy cookie. Also, I found this recipe made a very small batch of cookies--I didn't get near the 24 that I should have, even though I used small scoops.

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