Recipe: Tasty Sesame seed cookies

Sesame seed cookies. Covered with sesame seeds, these easy-to-make 'Sicilian Sesame Seed Cookies' will surely become one of your favorites! These are very special cookies served often in the South. Sesame Seed Cookies Recipe photo by Taste of Home.

Our delicious sesame seed cookies are coated with toasted sesame seeds, fragrant and crunchy, an excellent snack for school, coffee break, or tea time. In South Carolina and Georgia, these popular cookies are known as "benne wafers," taking their name from the West African word for. All purpose flour, sugar, large eggs, crisco or any other vegetable shortening, baking powder, anise extract, milk, raw sesame seeds. You can cook Sesame seed cookies using 9 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Sesame seed cookies

1. Prepare 2 lbs of flour.
2. It's 1/2 cup of olive oil or if you prefer butter.
3. Prepare 1 envelope of dry yeast.
4. You need 1 tbsp of salt.
5. You need 1 1/2 cup of lukewarm water.
6. Prepare 1/2 tsp of mahlab optional.
7. Prepare 1 cup of sugar.
8. You need 1 cup of sesame seeds roasted fresh.
9. Prepare 1/2 cup of milk.

In the bowl of a stand mixer add the eggs, sugar, Crisco, baking powder and the anise extract. Have you tried black sesame seeds in cookies before? Nutty toasted sesame seeds are included in the dough as well as serving as the crispy coating. ITALIAN SESAME SEED COOKIES "GIUGIULENI" (pronounced JuJulanie) I called these "little loaves of bread" when I was a kid.

Sesame seed cookies step by step

1. Dissolve yeast in 1/4 cup of warm water with sugar cover for few minutes.
2. In large pan mix flour,salt,mahalab,sugar add olive oil add the yeast mixture and mix gradually add the water mixing and kneading until u form smooth dough not sticky.
3. Cover and rest for 2 hours or until rises double size.
4. Get two plates one for milk and other for sesame seed to dip the cookies.
5. Cut dough size a golf ball flatten into circle dip into milk then in the sesame seeds.
6. Let it rest for 1/2 hour.
7. Bake for 15 minutes in reheated oven 375 degrees.
8. Broil for 1 minuets to light brown enjoy.

They are simply the best to dunk in a glass of milk. Your Italian Sesame Seed Cookies bake up light and airy and the sesame seed coating adds a little crunch as well as flavor to every bite! I noted above that you can swap in different extracts based on. Sesame seed cookies, or benne seed cookies as we call them in the South, are a classic South Carolina tradition. It is believed that enslaved Africans brought benne seeds to Colonial America.