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The best tahini brownies

Ingredients

  • 2 ½ sticks of butter, browned
  • 2 ½ cups sugar
  • 1 ½ cup natural unsweetened cocoa powder, I use ½ black cocoa powder and ½ regular unsweetened
  • ½ tablespoon sea salt or kosher salt
  • 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
  • 4 large eggs
  • cup plus 1 tablespoon unbleached all purpose flour
  • five tablespoons of tahini

Instructions

  • Heat oven to 325 and line an 8x8 square baking pan with foil and butter or spray with cooking spray.
  • Melt butter in a saucepan over medium-high heat. Keep cooking until butter stops foaming and bubbling, you will notice the browned bits forming at bottom of pan, scrape those up with a wodden spoon. Remove from heat; immediately add sugar, cocoa, 2 teaspoons water, vanilla, and salt. Stir to blend. Let cool 5 minutes (mixture will still be hot). Add eggs, beating hard with a wooden spoon to blend after each egg addition. When mixture looks thick and shiny, add flour and continue stirring with a wooden spooning until blended.
  • Pour batter into prepared baking dish and spread to level out. Drop five tablespoons of tahini over the batter separate from eachother. With a toothpick or a knife, swirl the tahini gently with the batter. You can create any kind of swirled design you like. Bake at 325 for about 35 - 40 minutes, a toothpick in the center should come out mostly clean, and the brownies should be kind of pulled away from the sides of the pan.
  • Cool completely and then pull from the pan with the foil overhang.

Notes

Pro tip: Use a plastic knife to cut brownies - they don't stick to plastic knives :)