Sesame Wafer Cookies
Made with healthy sesame seeds, these traditional benne wafers are a delicious snack. Bonus: they ship well so you can send them to someone special this holiday season.
Ingredients
- 1/4 Cup Butter
- 1/4 Cup Raw Sugar or Sucanat or Rapadura*
- 1/4 Cup Organic Cane Sugar
- 1 Tsp. Vanilla
- 1 Small to Medium Sized Egg
- Pinch Sea salt
- 1/2 Cup Unbleached Flour
- 1/4 Cup Lightly Toasted** Sesame Seeds
- 1/2 Tsp. Nutmeg
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°F/176°C. Prepare baking sheet(s) with parchment paper or light spritz of oil of choice.
- Cream the butter, sugars, and vanilla on med/high speed until fully mixed. On low speed, beat in the egg, then the flour, salt, and nutmeg. Fold in the sesame seeds.
- Drop the dough from rounded 1/2 teaspoons (no more than that!) onto baking sheet, leaving about 3 inches spacing around cookies for them to spread out.
- Bake on a middle rack for 10-12 minutes or until they begin to turn a golden, caramel color.
- Remove the cookies from the oven and let stand for about a minute so they can set up, then transfer to a cooling rack.
- To store these cookies, layer between sheets of parchment paper in an airtight container.
Notes
*If you use sucanat/Rapadura, your cookies will be slightly darker and also slightly less sweet. Just an fyi.
** To toast your sesame seeds, spread them on an ungreased, oven safe dish. Then set the dish on the middle rack of your oven and turn to 275 degrees for 10-ish minutes, stirring now and then. Watch these buggers carefully because they burn easily. Ask me how I know.
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