After a very traditional Italian recipe today, the day 10 of our Advent Cookie Calendar, I want to share a recipe from the infallible Yotam Ottolenghi.

He is a famous and renowned chef, his recipes are always flavourful and colorful and foolproof!

Tahin is a sesame paste, rich in taste, very bitter if eaten alone, mostly known for being used in hummus; it’s the perfect match for these cookies!

Here in Itali you can find tahin in almost every supermarket, if you can’t just check Amazon.

Let’s jump to the recipe!

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Crumbly tahin cookies from Yotam Ottolenghi.

Servings: 20

Ingredients

270 g plain flour
150 g soft butter
130 g sugar
110 g tahin
1 tbsp fresh cream
1/2 vanilla pod ( seeds only)
cinnamon to sprinkle

Instructions

Beat butter and sugar until creamy.
Add tahin, cream and vanilla seeds, mix well.
Add sifted flour and knead briefly, until you have a smooth loaf.
Make balls from the dough about 20 g each ( the size of a big walnut), put them on a baking tray keeping distance between them.
Press a little each ball with your palm then using a fork to make a decor over the cookie.
Sprinkle cookies with cinnamon powder and bake in already heated oven at 356°F/ 180°C for 10-15 minutes, they have to stay quite white.
Do not remove from the baking tray until cool.
In a tin box they can be stored up to a week.