Tahini & Cookie Butter Buckeyes With Toasted Sesame Seeds
- 1 1/2 cups powdered sugar
- 8 ounces dark chocolate chunks
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- sesame seeds (for coating)
- 1/2 cup tahini
- 1/2 cup cookies butter (like speculoos or biscoff)
- First, combine the cookie butter, tahini, and 4 tablespoons of butter in a stand mixer and beat them until they're light and creamy; should take about 3 minutes.
- Add the vanilla and mix it in on low.
- Mix the powdered sugar in on low (unless you want to look like you had a grand mal seizure in the powder room) a 1/2 cup at a time until it's all mixed in. You want this stuff to be just a little crumbly. If it's got the texture of the middle of a Reese's cup, you're doing it right.
- Form the stuff into balls about an inch wide and put them on a baking sheet lined with wax paper. Stick that in the fridge for a couple of hours.
- Toast the sesame seeds on medium-high in a small pan until they're a little brown and you can smell the toasty goodness, then put them in a wide bowl.
- To make the chocolate coating, get yourself a double boiler (or just be lazy and put a metal bowl over a pot filled with boiling water, like me) and throw the chocolate and a tablespoon of butter in. Stir it until it becomes not-solid.
- This is the tricky part; use a toothpick to spear the balls (ahem) and coat them in the chocolate, leaving a little bit on the top uncovered, then immediately dip them in the sesame seeds so the bottom half is covered.
- Once you've done that with all the balls and put them back on their cookie sheet home, stick them in the fridge for a couple more hours. Yes, I know the waiting is hard, but you can pass the time by seeing how many funny things you can say involving "fridge" and "balls" (hint: it's three and a half).
- Take the buckeyes out of the fridge and let them sit for half an hour until they're at room temperature, and then shove a half dozen of them in your face.
powdered sugar, chocolate chunks, vanilla, sesame seeds, tahini, cookies butter
Taken from food52.com/recipes/33828-tahini-cookie-butter-buckeyes-with-toasted-sesame-seeds (may not work)