The traditional way to prepare tahini cookies is to combine flour, sugar and butter until it creates a crumbly mixture before adding in the raw tahini. Balls of dough are then shaped into round, flat cookies, oftentimes with almonds or pine nuts pressed into them. The baked cookie resembles a shortbread.
Variations that include adding cinnamon, rose water, orange blossom water, date molasses or grape molasses are widespread across Israel.
Tahin Kurabiyesi
In Turkey, this pastry is called tahin kurabiyesi, which contains rose water, orange blossom water and olive oil in addition to the tahini and aforementioned ingredients. They are served as a Turkish pastry.
