One surprising facet impact of Covid-19 is that the Tahini, Rye & Chocolate Cookies that we posted final yr have made a comeback and change into immensely standard in properties world wide and on instagram – viral in the event you like. Some folks even began giving them the nickname quarantine cookies. These previous two months we’ve been tagged in a whole lot and a whole lot of tahini cookies, and we’ve totally loved following alongside. I began sharing one cookie every single day on my insta story calling it Tahini Cookie of the Day and I assume I’ll proceed so long as they hold popping up in my feed.

When you have been baking cookies, we’ve been making darkish chocolate and nut butter cups. These are quite common within the US with manufacturers like Reese’s and Justin’s (my fav!), a bit much less so in Europe as we do not have the identical peanut butter custom right here.
Luise and I’ve been making nut butter cup variations for years although however by no means bothered sharing them on this web site as a result of, nicely, they virtually really feel too simple. Certainly one of our extra enjoyable variations was peanut butter and jam cups. And some months in the past whereas making our Pumpkin Seed Butter, I sweetened a few of it and made Swirled Pumpkin Seed Cups. However with the current rising recognition of the tahini cookies, I assumed it could possibly be enjoyable to share a tahini model of nut butter cups. You can also make your individual chocolate however within the present state of issues – retaining issues simple looks as if the perfect thought.

I made a swirled model with sweetened tahini which tastes superb, however the tahini was fairly runny which made them type of messy to eat. Conventional variations have a firmer nut butter filling – virtually prefer it’s blended with flour and sugar. So I additionally tried a model solely sweetened with dates and with a bit chilly water blended into the tahini which reverse of what you may assume, really makes the tahini firmer (as a result of oil and water do not wish to hug). We could not determine which model we appreciated most so we posted a query on instagram that got here out virtually tied. So right here we’re, with two variations of this recipe. One which has a runnier filling (though when chilled it’s firmer) and is sweetened with coconut sugar. And one with a firmer filling sweetened with dates. Flavorwise, the runnier is my favourite as a result of coconut sugar enhances the tahini amazingly however each are good. Hope you get pleasure from them!

Ps! The runnier tahini can be nice on pancakes, ice cream, porridges and sandwiches so ensure you have some left over 😉