My buddy, the chef Kali Jago, is a full-blown tahini obsessive. It was she who launched me to (life-changing) whipped tahini and made me a batch of tahini and date chews, which I’m now hooked on. To honour this joint infatuation, we made these slices collectively. The bottom is made utilizing salted pretzels and brazil nuts, the centre oozes a squidgy tahini and date caramel, and it’s topped with a skinny layer of darkish, gently salted chocolate. We hope you’ll be simply as smitten with them as we’re.
Chocolate, tahini, date and pretzel slice
You’ll want a meals processor and a 20cm x 20cm sq. tin or related. The pretzels to make use of are the small snacking type that may be purchased within the grocery store (probably the most broadly obtainable are the Penn State model).
Prep 5 min
Cook dinner 25 min, plus setting time
Makes 25 squares
For the tahini and date combination
360g pitted medjool dates (from 390g unstoned)
7 tbsp (100g) tahini
½ tsp floor cinnamon
1 tbsp coconut oil
¼ tsp high quality sea salt
For the bottom
120g pretzels
50g darkish chocolate
100g brazil nuts
6 tbsp (75g) coconut oil
3 tbsp darkish agave syrup
For the chocolate topping
100g darkish chocolate
Flaky sea salt, to complete
Put the dates in a heatproof bowl, cowl with 100ml just-boiled water, go away to soak for 5 minutes, then drain nicely.
Line a 20cm x 20cm cake tin with baking paper. Put the pretzels, chocolate, brazil nuts, coconut oil and agave in a meals processor and blitz to a sandy, cheesy crumb. Scrape out, press down very nicely into the tin, then put within the fridge to relax for 5 or so minutes, which is simply so long as it takes you to make the date filling).
In the meantime, put the drained dates within the meals processor with the tahini, cinnamon, coconut oil and salt, and blitz to a sticky combination. Take away the biscuit base from the fridge and evenly slather the date combine on prime and pat it all the way down to clean.
Soften the chocolate in a microwave in 20-second blasts, stopping whereas some strong items nonetheless stay (they’ll soften within the residual warmth). Pour the melted chocolate over the tahini and date combination, unfold it out evenly and sprinkle sparsely with sea salt. Refrigerate for 20 minutes, then minimize neatly into 5 columns lengthways and once more widthways to make 25 squares. To retailer, preserve coated within the fridge.
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