sesame snaps with photo

[fundj&e]

Name of Recipe:sesame snaps
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Ingredients:
250 g dates chopped in TM
50 g butter
¼ cup sugar ( I used raw )
2 cups of lightly toasted sesame seeds


Preparation:
Melt butter and sugar in bowl mine took 2 mins on 60d

Add dates 5 mins at 70 speed 2

Add toasted sesame seeds 2 mins @ 70 on speed 2 to 3

Pat down on a greased tray (my tray 20cm by 24cm)
I Will use a lager one next time

Cut into squares when cold



Photos:

Tips/Hints:
I like mine crunchy, I baked a few squares on 180 for 5 mins
I brushed manuka honey over the baked squares
ciao

[judydawn]

I've just made these fundj, just waiting for them to cool down before I try one.  Such a quick easy recipe, I only did half quantity in a 20cm square tin.

Very moorish, just ate 3 and have had to put them away before they disappear. 

[cookie1]

Are these really really hard? I tasted one years ago at the schools breakfast club and it was so hard you could use it to hammer a nail in.

[fundj&e]

not hard at all  i like them hard i will try and bake them next time and less sugar way too sweet. thumbs down from DS.

CIAO

[cookie1]

Thank you.

[judydawn]

Mine look completely different to yours fundj -  much darker.  I baked mine for 5 mins with the honey glaze whilst it was still in the tin but had been cut through into pieces.  I think I would leave the glaze off until after baking next time as you did as they are a little sticky but certainly not crisp at all, quite chewy in fact.

[fundj&e]

going to give this one ago

Pastéli (Greek Sesame Snaps)
from Culinaria Greece: Greek Specialties

4 cups/500g sesame seeds ( toasted )
8 level tablespoons/250g honey
1 generous cup/250g sugar

 

Easy enough to convert, I think.

Heat the honey and sugar in a saucepan over a medium heat until the mixture caramelizes. Using a sugar thermometer, make sure the temperature of the mixture does not exceed 470 F (250 C). Remove the saucepan from the heat and stir in the toasted sesame seeds.

Grease a marble slab (or any other cool, smooth surface) with sunflower oil and tip the mixture onto it. Roll out thinly using a greased rolling pin. Cut small bars from the mixture and place on a wire tray to cool.

[cookie1]

They do look tasty. Just imagine what the floor would be like if you spilled a cup od sesame seeds.