Easy Chocolate Black Sesame Cookies (No Mixer)
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Easy Chocolate Black Sesame Cookies (No Mixer)
Description
The cookies start with melted butter mixed with black sesame powder, brown sugar, flour, and baking soda if applicable. Chopped or fevored chocolate melts into the dark dough, giving an earthy cocoa flavor complemented by toasted sesame. Eggs combine the ingredients and help create a soft crumb.
Baking at a moderate temperature yields cookies with crisp edges and soft interiors. Scatter extra chocolate bits atop for visible chocolate pieces. The flavor is somewhat sweet with earthy and nutty notes, and the texture is tender yet firm enough to hold shape.
This recipe suits those wanting a unique cookie flavor without a mixer and who appreciate the sesame-chocolate combination. Baking in small batches allows for fresh cookies with minimal equipment.
Use unsalted butter or omit added salt accordingly. Measuring ingredients by weight ensures accuracy—especially for clumping components like ground sesame and brown sugar. Browned butter can be a flavorful alternative to melted butter.
Ingredients
- ½ Cup black sesame seed powder 125g or 4.4 oz) You can buy a bottle in the Asian grocery, online or grind your own from black sesame seeds. If grinding your own, there will be some volume loss after grinding, so grind 5% more or 6.25g/ 0.22 oz. Highly recommend weighing the sesame seed powder and brown sugar, as they both tend to clump, unsweetened
- 0.4 lb butter If using salted butter, omit the salt from the recipe, unsalted
- 2 egg room temeprature, medium to large-sized
- 1¼ Cup chocolate Or to taste. Note that using a chocolate with less cocoa will make the cookies sweeter. Conversely, using chocolate with a higher cocoa percentage will make them more earthy. You can also use chopped chocolate. (If you substitute with chocolate chips, note that those contain stabilisers which may impact how the chocolate melts into the cookie dough. The taste won't be as nice too.) You wil need about 10-20 more if you want to see chocolate pieces in the dough, as the 1¼Cups of chocolate simply melts into the dough, fevres, around 60% cocoa
- 1½ Cups all-purpose flour you can substitute with self-raising flour. (Leave out the baking soda if you do so. The amount by which the cookie rises will change, depending on the formulation of the self-raising flour.
- ⅘ Cups brown sugar 160g or 5.64 oz. I strongly recommend weighing this as it clumps crazily, so if you rely on sccoping it, you're unlikely to get the right amount for the recipe. (The cookies will be too sweet or too bitter.)
- 1 teaspoon baking soda omit if using self-raising flour
- ¼ teaspoon salt omit if using salted butter
Instructions
- Pre-heat oven to 350F/ 177C/ 157C fan.
- Over low heat, melt the butter. (Do not let it boil.)
- Whilst the butter is melting, beat the eggs.
- Whisk all the dry ingredients then mix in the chocolate fevres.
- Pour the melted butter into the dry-ingredients and mix. (The chocolate will end up melting into the dough.)
- Once well-mixed, stir the eggs into the dark dough.
- Use a cookie dough scoop or ice-cream scoop to scoop the cookies onto parchment paper or a Silpat. They will spread in the oven so leave 2-3 inches in between.Optional: if you want to see chocolate bits in the cookies, add 1-2 chocolate fevres per cookie before putting in the oven.
- Bake for 10-11 minutes till the edges are crisp but the interiors are still soft and cake-like.
Notes
- Weigh the black sesame powder and brown sugar for accurate measurements due to clumping.
- For a nuttier flavor, you may use browned butter instead of melted butter.
- Use unsalted butter and omit salt, or if using salted butter, exclude added salt from the recipe.
- If substituting white sesame seeds, cookies will taste sweeter.
Nutrition Information
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Serving: 12cookies
Amount Per Serving
Calories 327 kcal
% Daily Value*
| Calories | 327kcal | 16% |
| Carbohydrates | 40g | 13% |
| Protein | 5g | 10% |
| Fat | 17g | 26% |
| Saturated Fat | 8g | 40% |
| Polyunsaturated Fat | 2g | 12% |
| Monounsaturated Fat | 5g | 25% |
| Trans Fat | 0.2g | 10% |
| Cholesterol | 38mg | 13% |
| Sodium | 158mg | 7% |
| Potassium | 200mg | 4% |
| Fiber | 4g | 16% |
| Sugar | 24g | 48% |
| Vitamin A | 163IU | 3% |
| Calcium | 104mg | 10% |
| Iron | 3mg | 17% |
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.
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