Sesame Cookies

Do you enjoy sesame paste (芝麻糊) ?
Honestly i don't in the past but now i enjoy my sesame paste very much.

Have ever heard from your older generation said that black sesame helps to restore, grow thick and darken your black hair. This is truth from what i research from it, as black sesame contain the nourishes which are required for black hair (Asian people like me).

Recently I bought a book, name "Okashi" during the Popular bookfair. I love this book very much as it suit my ideal of baking recipe. Since the packet of black sesame seed have been sitting in my kitchen for month and i think i should do something to it. Flipping through my baking book and tadah, i found this sesame cookies from Okashi book.

The recipe call for white and black sesame but i only have black sesame so i omit the white sesame. If you want to have a black, shiny, healthy black hair remember to consume black sesame.

*I was wondering if consume white sesame will it produce more white hair? >.<

Black Sesame Ingredient:

• Pastry flour or Top flour 220g
• White sesame seeds 50g
• Black sesame seeds 50g
• Unsalted butter 100g (Softened)
• Icing (confectioner's) sugar 100g
• Salt 1/8tsp
• Egg yolks 40g (About 2 eggs)

Method:

1. Sift flour. Without preheating oven, bake white and black sesame seeds at 150°C for 10-15minutes, Set aside to cool.
2. Beat butter, icing sugar and salt until soft and creamy. Add egg yolk and mix well.
3. Add flour and sesame seeds and fold in with a spatula.
4. Divide dough in half. Transfer each half to a piece of parchment paper. Wrap dough in cling firm and chill in the refrigerator for at least 3 hour or overnight.
5. Preheat oven to 160°C.
6. Shape your desired cookies shape. Place on a baking tray lined with parchment paper.
7. Bake for about 12 minutes or until golden brown.
8. Let cool on a wire rack.
9. Store cookies in an airtight container to keep them crisp.