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Halva Sesame Brown Butter Chocolate Chunk Cookies

Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 13 minutes
Course Dessert
Servings 15

Ingredients
  

  • 2 eggs room temperature
  • 1/3 cup granulated sugar
  • 1 cup light or dark brown sugar
  • 2 cups all purpose flour
  • pinch of salt
  • 3/4 cup crumbled pistachio halva
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract
  • 1&1/2 cups chopped semi-sweet and dark chocolate You can do a combination of milk, dark and semi-sweet. Also, you can adjust the amount of chocolate according to your preference.
  • 1/4 teaspoon baking powder
  • 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1/4 cup raw sesame seeds you are going to use this to coat the cookie dough balls
  • 1 cup unsalted brown butter

Instructions
 

  • In medium saucepan, brown 2 sticks of butter. Make sure not burn it so keep an eye on it at all times. When the butter gets golden that means it's ready.
  • In a large bowl, pour the brown sugar, granulated sugar, brown butter and stir well. Doing this will help to cool the butter before adding the eggs.
  • Then add one egg at a time and whisk until fully incorporated.
  • Add the salt and sift in the flour, baking powder and baking soda. Fold the flour into the wet batter until fully incorporated and try not over mix.
  • Add the chopped dark, semi sweet chocolate and halva and fold everything into the dough.
  • Using an ice cream scooper, scoop some of the dough and then roll the dough ball in some sesame seeds and then place it on a large baking pan. Continue this step until you have to no dough left.
  • Place the baking sheet in the freeze for 1 hour.
    TIP: I recommend you chill the cookies for 12-24 hours. The complexity of flavors really develop with time, the flour absorbs and the cookie really becomes so much better.
  • Preheat oven 350 degrees.
  • When ready, place 4 cookie dough balls at a time about 2 inches apart. The cookies will spread so you want to give them as much room as possible.
  • Bake the cookies for about 12-13 minutes. Halfway through baking, I like to top the cookies with additional crumbled halva. Try not to over bake the cookies because they will continue to bake while they are cooling down.
  • These cookies are best enjoyed warm. I suggest baking the amount of cookies you will eat that very same day and storing the reaming cookie dough balls in the freeze. Enjoy!