Tahini Cookies with Candied Ginger and Gingerbread Spices. Easy Holiday Cookies. 1 Bowl Whole Wheat Crinkle Ginger Cookies. Add molasses or chocolate for variation. Vegan Nut-free Palm oil-free Recipe. GF option.
If you like tahini, you will love these Tahini cookies! Tahini + Ginger bread spices and Candied ginger make this a crinkly and delicious cookie. These cookies are soft when just baked and get more like a shortbread-y crumbly cookie as they cool. A bit crunchier than shortbread s they sit for longer. If you like softer cookies, bake a minute less and consume within the day. Store in a box for upto 3 days.
For a molasses ginger cookies, use 1 tbsp molasses + 1 tbsp oil instead of the 2 tbsp. Add other spices or chocolate chips for variation. Make these simple 1 Bowl Tahini Cookies and dress in sugar, sprinkles, candied ginger, or drizzle some simple icing. Easily made glutenfree. See Recipe notes.
If you make these, do tag me on Instagram and leave comments here on the post about how they turned out! I love to hear from you.
More Holiday Cookies from the blog. No palm oil!
- Grain-free Chocolate Ginger Fudgy Cookies. GF
- Oatmeal Walnut chocolate Chunk Cookies GF option
- Chickpea flour Chocolate chip cookies GF
- Peanut/Almond butter Pecan Cookies
- Almond Butter Oatmeal Cookies. GF oil-free
- Giant chocolate chip and chunk cookies
- Ginger Molasses crinkle cookies. GF
- Double Chocolate chip cookies.
Make your cookie dough. It should be smooth and not too dry.
Shape into 1 to 1.5 inch flat discs. Press one side in granulated sugar and place on parchment lined sheet. The cookies double in size, so keep them atleast 2 inches apart.
Bake for 10 minutes. Cool completely.
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Recipe Card
Ginger Tahini Cookies 1 Bowl
Ingredients
Wet:
- 1/4 cup (60 g) heaped cup tahini
- 2 tbsp maple syrup
- 2 tbsp oil
- 2 tbsp sugar
- 1/2 tsp (0.5 tsp) vanilla extract
- 1.5 tbsp non dairy milk like almond
Dry:
- 3/4 tsp (0.75 tsp) ground ginger
- 1/2 tsp (0.5 tsp) cinnamon
- a good pinch of cloves and nutmeg
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1/4 tsp (0.25 tsp) baking soda
- 3/4 cup (90 g) or more whole wheat flour
- 1/8 tsp (0.13 tsp) salt
- 2 tbsp chopped candied ginger
- 1 tbsp granulated sugar for topping
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F / 180ºc. Add all the wet ingredients to a bowl and mix well u til smooth.
- Add the spices, baking powder, soda and mix.
- Add the flour, salt and candied ginger and mix in to make a smooth dough. You will need to get your hands in. If the mixture is too wet, add another tbsp flour. If the mixture is too dry, add a splash of non dairy milk.
- Divide into equal portions and shape into 1.5 inch flat discs. Press one side of the disc in granulated sugar and place on parchment lined baking sheet.
- Bake for 10 minutes. Cool completely and serve. For softer cookies bake 1 minute less. For crispier bake a minute or so longer. Store in a box for upto 3 days.
Coco
Hi Richa, can I use fresh ginger instead of candied? Also how can I add molasses to this recipe? Thx!
Sonia
Drop everything and make these now.
These cookies are fantastic. They are light, gingery, not overly sweet and utterly addictive. The hint of tahini is perfect.
I used plain flour instead of whole meal as this is what I had on hand and they turned out perfectly.
Thank you for this recipe, Richa!
Vegan Richa Support
perfect thank you!
Jennifer
Would you suggest regular whole wheat flour or whole wheat pastry flour for these? I can’t wait to try them!
Richa
Pastry
Celine
I used coconut oil and coconut sugar for all the recipe. So good ! Cheers from France
Celine
Amazing! So delicious…
Neeha
Can we freeze these cookies?
Richa
yes
yoko osako
I love the texture and flavor! Thank you for sharing the SO easy one bowl recipe, Richa♡ I will bake it in a low with chocolate chips!
GEETIKA
I tried the gluten free version!
Absolutely love the texture!
Yum ????????
Richa
Awesome!
Ivy
What sort of flour you used?
Vegan Richa Support
whole wheat
Astrid Geertsen
Hi Richa, I made your ginger tahin cookies last week. I substituted the regular sugar for coconut-blossemsugar so of course they turned out darker in colour. I was generous with the tahin (I really like tahin) and also with the ginger (I really really like ginger), and I was surprised with the flavor. I needed a few cookies to embrase the savoury taste, but now I am really satisfied with the recipe. I was so bold as to translate your recipe into Dutch and put it on my website. Of course I mentioned you as the source! Thank you for all your yummy recipes! Many greetings from The Netherlands.
Richa
Hi Astrid, the translation would be ok if you were using your own photos. you used my photos without permission, please remove the photo and the recipe from your website.
Stephen Anthony
I wanted a ginger cookie and hav a abundance of tahini and knew I couldn’t hav been the only one to bake with it so thanks for this.
I live all the subs and tips you give.
Great blog and work you’ve done congrats.
I’m sure these will be great but I don’t hav candied ginger I’m sure it will be ok to use a bit more powder and sugar ya?
Vegan Richa Support
sugar ya ?
Stephen Anthony
Too funny I’m Canadian and Scottish.
I realize that isn’t proper grammer.I was just asking if using extra suger in replace of the candied ginger is ok wich i feel it would be.
Vegan Richa Support
that should.be fine
Emma
These are delicious! I made them with all-purpose flour since that was what I had lying around and it worked perfectly. Had to up the amount of flour to ~1 cup for the right texture. Thank you 🙂
Donna H. Zastrow
Hi, I am Donna H. Zastrow!I love anything to eat with fresh ginger.
Kim
I don’t think I have ever commented on any recipe before but these are A-MA-ZING. I didn’t have candied ginger so added just a grate or two of fresh ginger and they came out perfect. I love cookies I don’t feel bad eating! (even the raw dough was great!!)
Richa
Yay!
Padmini Krishan
I have to try this soon…I love anything with ginger. They look yummy!!!!
Kristi H.
Could I use applesauce in place of the oil? We try to stay away from oil. Thanks:)
Richa
More tahini would do better than applesauce
Jessi
These are the BEST cookies I have ever made. I added chopped dates and shredded coconut. They are amazing!
Tracey @ A Taste of Trace
I made these yesterday and WOW they are in top contender for my favourite cookie! I subbed 1 Tbsp of the oil with blackstrap molasses which gave them such a deep & delicious flavour. I also baked them for just under 9 minutes and I couldn’t believe how pillowy & soft they were! This is a recipe I’ll be making again and again!! Thank you!
Leah
I’m excited to make these. Do I use fresh ginger or powder?
Richa
powder. There is both ginger powder and candied ginger
Grey
These are delicious! Thanks!
I used molasses & coconut oil; and a splash less whole milk (we’re vegetarian and the regular milk is already open) and 1 tbsp of rum (for an experiment, and to try to get rid of some in a recipe. As suspected, I believe it evaporated perhaps entirely, & doubt it made a difference other than demanding a little more flour of the dough).
The crunchy, sugared top with moist & tender candied ginger on the inside makes for delightful textural contrast. I’ll make these again, for sure.
Richa
🙂 yes, the rum should go well in these and that added liquid will need some flour. glad they came out well!
Sabrina @ Familynano
WOW Richa!
I just bought molasses and have been looking for the perfect ginger cookie recipe!
Thanks for posting!
Andrea Calhoun
Just out of the oven. I used white whole wheat flour, and turbinado sugar on top. They are delicious as I love both tahini and ginger!
Sheila
I would like to try these cookies but I cannot use wheat flour. Can you suggest another flour?
Richa
Spelt?
Fran
I’ve been waiting for the perfect ginger GF vegan cookie & this is it!! Can’t wait to make these????
Richa
Yay!
Marina
Whole wheat flour is not gluten free…
Richa
I mention in the notes on which gf flours to use