tahini chocolate chip levain bakery inspired cookies
giant chocolate chip cookies made with brown butter, tahini, halva pieces and chocolate chips. baked to have a toasted outside and chewy inside. nutty and sweet, with caramelized pieces of halva and melted chocolate chips. they're perfectly irresistible and meant to be shared (or not) !
Equipment
- cookie sheet
- stand or electric mixer
- parchement paper or silpat
- food scale or ½ c measuring cup
Ingredients
- 1 ¼ c (150g) cake flour
- 1 ¾ c (210) all purpose flour
- 1 tsp cornstarch
- ¾ tsp baking soda
- 1 tsp salt
- ¾ c (175g) browned butter, cold sub with ¾ c regular cold unsalted butter
- ¼ c (56g) tahini, cold and well stirred
- ¾ c (150g) light brown sugar
- ½ c (100g) granulated sugar
- 2 large eggs
- 1 c (130g) halva sub with more chocolate chips or pb chips
- 2 c semi sweet chocolate chips
Instructions
- To make the brown butter, melt 2 sticks (1 c) unsalted butter in a medium sauce pan over low-medium heat. Once the butter starts to foam, stir frequently with a whisk. The foam will increase, then subside while brown bits form at the bottom of the pan. The butter will smell nutty. Once this happens, remove the butter from the heat. Pour into a heat proof container with a lid. Cool to room temperature and then chill in the fridge until firm. This whole process takes about 2-3 hours. Make a day (or up to 2 weeks ahead) or opt for regular unsalted butter if you don't want to spend all day making cookies!
- Preheat the oven to 410F. Line a large baking sheet with parchment paper. Set aside.
- Sift together the flours, cornstartch, baking soda and salt. Whisk together and set aside.
- On low speed, increasing to medium speed, cream together the cold brown butter, tahini, brown and granulated sugars together until creamy.
- Add eggs, one at a time, beating about 20 seconds before adding the next.
- By hand or on the lowest setting of your mixer ( i prefer by hand), sitr in the dry ingredients ⅓ at a time. Leaving some flour streaks before adding the next ⅓. When the last ⅓ dry has been added to the wet, fold the halva and chocolate chips. Fold unitl the dough is combined with no visible streaks of flour. Chill in the fridge for 20 minutes.
- Grab a food scale or a measuring cup. These cookies need to be measured out to 6oz. each. This is what makes the cookie so BIG! Measure out (4) 6oz. cookies to start. The rest of the dough can go back in the fridge while the other cookies bake. Place each 6oz. cookie at least 2 inches apart on a baking sheet. Place into a fully preheated 410 F oven. Bake for 9-12 minutes. The edges should be set, the top of the cookie should be golden, but not burned. The middle will be slighly underbaked. The cookie will continue to "bake" on the baking sheet once removed from the oven.
- Remove cookies and leave on the hot baking sheet set on top of a cooling rack for 15 minutes. Once the cookies are ready, remove from the baking sheet and cool completely on a cooling rack. While the cookies are cooling on the baking sheet (right from the oven), pull out the cookies chilling in the fridge. Meaning, pull the second batch from the fridge about 10 minutes before you plan to bake them.
- Enjoy with someone becuase these cookies are meant to be shared!
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