Easy Chocolate Black Sesame Cookies (No Mixer)

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5 from 75 votes

These Easy Chocolate Black Sesame Cookies combine nutty black sesame powder with rich chocolate and butter to produce soft-centered cookies with crisp edges. Blending the ingredients without a mixer simplifies preparation while achieving a tender, cake-like texture. The inclusion of baking soda and brown sugar balances sweetness and rise.

Prep Time

15 mins

Cook Time

11 mins

Servings: 12 cookies

Calories: 327 kcal

Course: Dessert

Cuisine: Asian

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

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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

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%)

Nutrition Facts

Serving: 12 cookies

Amount Per Serving

Calories 327

% 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.