BBB: Sukkar bi Tahin

Oh Bread Baking Babes, I do love each and every one of you. Obviously, I love your picks each month as well, since I've managed to make quite a few as time goes along. But this month? *sigh*

I barely fit it in, mixing, kneading, rising, shaping - baking them and wresting them out of the oven right before heading into work. They sat, cooling on the rack, until I got back home the next morning. And they were so cute - spiral-y and stuffed with sugar. Let me tell you, my hopes were high. I thought- "I'm so lucky, I bought tahini a few months back to make Pocky and since then the jar has just sat! Perfect, a recipe I can use some of it up in!" And really, everything I've put tahini in I've liked. But here's the thing - it hasn't been the star in anything. Hummus? Pocky? It just adds the je ne sais quoi factor to both. But these, these have tahini in the name! and a swirl of it throughout!


And here's where things break down. Because people, I don't like the taste of tahini. Little did I know, it just has a different sort of nuttiness that I'm simply not a fan of. Fortunately (?) for me, I had only made a half recipe - yielding three beautifully swirled, flaky pastries. Oh, and one little one, because I was too vigorous stretching the dough out before making it into a pinwheel and tore the end off one of the strands. (oops?)


So my apologies to Natashya, since I even asked to make sure I could post late and still be counted among the Buddies, but I don't think this is going in my regular rotation. Maybe for me, tahini just needs to be in the background.

Check out the recipe here though, if you're a bigger fan of tahini than I (and many of the Babes were!).