Sesame cookies

If there is one cookie I want to eat every single day, it’s my crunchy sesame seed cookies. So crisp, light, and nutty, they are a perfect combination of flavor and texture. Keep the cookies in an airtight container.

This traditional Southern recipe for Benne Wafers makes a thin, sesame seed cookies with a crisp texture and lots of toasty sesame flavor. These good luck cookies are a crunchy, chewy treat.

These sesame cookies bring a touch of Italian tradition to your kitchen, offering a deliciously simple and flavorful treat. Enjoy one with a cup of coffee, afternoon tea or creamy hot chocolate.

Inspired by sesame peanut candy, these tender honey sesame cookies are the perfect treat for your holiday get togethers.

Italian sesame seed cookies are crisp, slightly sweet, covered in toasted sesame seeds, and flavored with anise.

These chewy Black Sesame Cookies are absolutely delicious. They’re rich and dense on the inside with a crunchy outer shell. The black sesame seeds give the cookies an unusual look—a dark, almost black inside and grey on the outside. Their distinctive nutty and fragrant flavor makes them perfectly irresistible. When you pull the cookies out of the oven, they’ll be a bit puffed and rounded on the top. As they cool, they will fall a bit and the tops will crack, which I think makes them look…

These orange and black sesame cookies have a great chewy texture with beautiful swirls of black sesame paste marbled throughout the cookie. Miso paste and soy sauce add depth and balance out the sweetness in the cookies. This cookie recipe is adapted from Sarah Kieffer’s Banana Espresso Cacao Nib cookie recipe in her cookbook, 100 Cookies. See notes for make-ahead directions.

Miso = Magic

This toasty sesame cookie recipe comes from '100 Cookies' by award-winning blogger Sarah Kieffer. Featuring her signature pan-banging technique.

Sesame Tahini Cookies are a unique treat that uses tahini instead of butter, therefore, keeping the cookie dairy free if you need that.