Recipe: Tasty Sesame Seed Cookies

Sesame Seed Cookies. Remove cookies to wire racks to cool. In a bowl, cream the butter and brown sugar; add egg and vanilla. Combine remaining ingredients; add to the creamed mixture. Dip in milk, then roll in sesame seeds. Place cookies one inch apart on a cookie sheet.

Cookies will not spread very much. Remove from cookie sheets to cool on wire racks. Holiday cookie baking season has begun - and these simple, sweet Italian Sesame Seed Cookies are a must-make treat for the cookie tray. You can have Sesame Seed Cookies using 9 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Sesame Seed Cookies

1. Prepare 70 g of flour.
2. You need 60 g of melted butter.
3. It's 120 g of sugar.
4. Prepare 160 g of sesame seeds.
5. Prepare 1 of egg.
6. You need 1 tsp of freshly squeezed lemon juice.
7. Prepare 1/2 tsp of vanilla extract or a pack of vanilla.
8. It's 1/2 tsp of salt.
9. Prepare 1/2 tsp of baking powder.

This very simple, buttery Italian Sesame Seed Cookie recipe comes from our favorite Italian cookbook, The North End Italian Cookbook. These sweet-but-not-too-sweet cookies can be flavored with either vanilla extra or anise extract, depending on your tastes. Put sesame seeds shallow bowl or plate. Roll cookie logs in sesame seeds to coat. (Optional: Pour milk and a few drops of anise flavoring in a shallow bowl.

Sesame Seed Cookies instructions

1. In a small bowl mix the flour, salt and baking powder.
2. Roast the sesame seeds on a pan (optional).
3. Mix the butter with the sugar, then add the egg, lemon juice and vanilla.
4. Slowly add the flour mixture.
5. Add in the sesame and mix well.
6. Heat the oven to 180 degrees.
7. On a baking sheet, place the mixture with a teaspoon, leaving 5cm space in between (approx 9 cookies on one pan).
8. Bake for 10 minutes until brownish.
9. Take out, wait until the sheet cools down to remove the cookies..
10. Enjoy!.

Put sesame seeds in another shallow bowl or plate. Pull off small portions of dough and roll between palms of the hands into a roll about finger size. Seeds stick better if put in sugared water and taken out and put on a clean lintless cloth. Dip each cookie in the egg whites then roll in the sesame seeds, covering all sides. The good old Sesame Seed Cookies - Biscotti Regina - Regina Cookies as made by my Grandma Romana.