Sesame Crisps

Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Hubby’s mom always makes the cookie platter for the family holiday celebration. Last year I got to help her out with the cookie platter. It was fun to get to try some of Hubby’s family favorites. These cookies are Hubby’s mom’s favorite. They have little black and white sesame seeds in them (I made them with only white seeds). These are very delicate cookies and need to be served the day they are baked.

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Sesame Crisps

Ingredients:

6 Tbsp butter, softened
2/3 c sugar
1 tsp vanilla extract
1/4 tsp salt
1/4 tsp baking powder
1 egg
1/2 c plus 2 Tbsp flour
4 tsp white sesame seeds, toasted
4 tsp black sesame seeds

Directions:

Toast white sesame seeds on a cookie sheet for a few minutes. Watch careful and only toast until lightly browned.

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Spray 2 large cookie sheets w/nonstick cooking spray or brush with butter.

In large bowl, beat butter, sugar until light and fluffy. Add vanilla, salt & baking powder and beat. Add egg, beat until well combined. With a spoon, stir in flour.

If you’re using the black seeds, spoon half the batter into a small bowl; add toasted white seeds to half the batter and the black seeds into the other half of batter.

Drop by rounded teaspoons, about 3” apart, onto cookie sheets. Bake about 8 minutes, rotating sheets halfway through the baking time, until cookies are set and edges are golden. Let cookies remain on sheets for only about 30 seconds before removing to racks to cool.

Wipe sheets clean and butter again, repeat until all is done.

*Note- if you inadvertently leave the cookies on the sheet too long and they are hard to remove, just place in oven for a minute to warm/soften them again.

Recipe from Hubby's mom

Cookies, Dessert, Family Favorites

3 comments »

12 Responses to “Monkey Bread”

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jCam — July 23, 2009 at 1:02 pm

Mmm I love monkey bread!
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Jessica Segarra — July 23, 2009 at 5:05 pm

That looks so good! I am going to have to try this soon!
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Memória — July 23, 2009 at 5:42 pm

This looks yummy! I love making monkey bread with homemade dough. To make it even richer, you could use leftover brioche dough. I have tried using the Artisan Bread in Five minutes recipes to make it quicker and easier. YUM!!!

Lovely photos.
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Amy Kingman — July 23, 2009 at 5:45 pm

looks delicious! Mmmmm!
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madebymel — July 23, 2009 at 11:18 pm

I LOVE monkey bread! I can only make it for company or I will seriously eat the entire pan!
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oneparticularkitchen — July 24, 2009 at 2:19 am

You are killing me with those pictures! That looks amazing.
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newlyweds — July 24, 2009 at 1:39 pm

I just posted about monkey bread also. Love the stuff, here is my link if your interested.

http://newlyweds.wordpress.com/2009/07/21/monkey-bread/
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Jennifer — July 24, 2009 at 11:49 pm

I LOVE monkey bread, yours looks great!!
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Ingrid — July 26, 2009 at 1:10 am

We L-O-V-E monkey bread! I’ve been making it for my children for several years now. I’ve also made monkey bread muffins which is the same thing but baked in muffins tins.
~ingrid
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Lee — July 26, 2009 at 10:32 pm

My family used to make monkey bread when we were growing up too! YUM!
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Mermaid Sweets — July 27, 2009 at 5:06 am

I have yet to make this, but this looks amazing. Love the new blog look.
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alexandjess — October 6, 2009 at 3:29 am

I know I’m about 3 months behind, but I saw this recipe in your “Blog Recap – Big Hitters” post and added it to my list of things to try. It only took me a month and a half to get to it ;).

Like you, I made it on a Sunday morning as a suprise for my husband and he loved it!

I blogged it here, if you want to check it out:

http://alexandjess.wordpress.com/2009/10/05/monkeys-for-breakfast/

Thanks for sharing your fun recipe!

Sesame Crisps