These 3-ingredient, vegan tahini date cookies are perfectly sweet with hints of caramel, thanks to the natural sweetness from the dates. Best of all you only need 3 ingredients to make them. I’m obsessed with these sweet little cookie and have been making a week after week. I love how amazing they taste despite their simplicity. If you love tahini, you will love these and even if you’ve never tasted tahini in your life, you’ll still love them! Get yourself some oats, dates and tahini and make these cookies asap!
Nature’s Candy
Tahini and dates are two of my most favourite ingredients and I include them both in my diet regularly in every which way. From oats, to smoothies, to salads and whatever I can think off, dates and tahini are both staples in my diet.
MY LATEST VIDEOSDates are my favourite natural sweetener because along with the sweet, caramel flavour they add to recipes, they’re also full of fibre, antioxidants,. vitamins and minerals. Now, yes, dates are very high in sugar so I do try to keep that love somewhat contained but that if your’e looking for a sweet treat, you’re much better off reaching for a few dates over processed candy or a traditional chocolate bar. Along with all that sugar, which makes dates a fantastic pre-workout or intra-workout snack, you’ll also be enjoying the many health benefits dates have to offer. Here are a few of their main health highlights.
Health Benefits of Dates
- high in fiber which promotes heart and digestive health
- good source of potassium
- excellent source of copper, good for bone health
- source of manganese
- source of magnesium giving them anti-inflammatory and blood pressure benefits
- source of iron
- contain vitamin B6 which supports brain health
- may support a healthy pregnancy and delivery
- contain isoflavones that are known to reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease
- contain vitamin A, important for healthy vision
Those are just a few of the benefits to enjoying dates on a regular basis. The details aren’t important, just know that dates are one more whole food you can include in your tool box for healthy living. If you have a sweet tooth, a couple of dates is a great way to get a sweet fix without the need for refined sugars.
Types of Dates
There are quite a few different varieties of dates and they vary in shape, size and flavour. My favourites, and most readily available, are deglect noor, medjool and honey. Dates fall into three: soft, semisoft, and dry. I find soft and semi-soft dates are best for recipes, depending on what you’re making. For these cookies, I’d recommend a softer, moisture date. If you only have dry dates, no problem though, just soak them in hot water for 10 minutes before using.
Medjool dates are amazingly sweet, soft, moist and rich dates that taste like caramel. They’re quite large in size and are excellent for eating and also using in recipes. Deglect noor dates are a little smaller and drier than medjool dates. They have a sweet, delicate flavour and are good for cooking and recipes but also yummy just for eating. Honey dates are soft and creamy and have a deeply sweet flavour. I love their melt-in-your-mouth quality that makes them a deliciously sweet treat on their own but they’re also great for sweetening recipes.
Other dates varieties include barhi, dayri, halawy, khadrawy, thoory and zahidi. I don’t have much experience with these varieties or haven’t seem them in my local larger grocery stores. They should be available in any Mediterranean market or specialty store, or you can always buy them online.
Vegan Tahini Date Cookies
All you’re going to need to make these magical cookies is oats, dates and tahini. Blend them together to make a dough, shape the dough into 12 cookies then bake them until golden and perfect and delicious. The flavour lands perfectly between sweet, caramel dates and creamy sesame tahini, with wholesome oats to round it out. They’re so easy to make with such a comforting, cozy flavour I’ve been making a batch every Sunday, week after week.
To make these, you’ll need a food processor or high-speed blender to mix the dough. I haven’t tried them without blending but I think you could probably get away with mixing them with your hands if you use soft dates and finely chop them before adding to the mixture. As long as you have a cookie dough-like texture and can shape it into cookies, you should be good to go.
Nutrition Details
These cookies are gluten-free, refined sugar-free and oil-free. Each cookie is calories with grams of carbohydates, grams of fat and grams of protein.
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These vegan tahini date cookies are perfectly sweet with hints of caramel thanks to naturally sweet dates. If you love tahini, you’ll love these simple, healthy cookies made with just 3 wholesome ingredients: oats, dates and tahini.
Ingredients
Instructions
- Pre-heat oven to 350 degrees.
- Add all ingredients to a food processor or high-speed blender and process until it forms a thick dough.
- Shape into 12 cookies and place on a parchment paper or silicone mat-lined baking sheet.
- Bake for 10 minutes and let cool on the pan before handing.
Notes
For best results, use a kitchen scale to weigh ingredients.
Vince
I love the flavors you have here. Often it seems like all the cookie recipes out there are conventional – which gets boring after a while. These seem like a good alternative and I’m sure they taste great.
Deryn
They taste amazing!! Give them a try and let me know what you think!
Jordan
Only three ingredients?! They look so perfect. I love tahini so I can’t wait to try these!
Joanna
Yummm I’m totally craving this right now! I want some!!!
Kaila @ Healthy Helper
I am usually not a tahini fan but I LOVE dates. Cannot wait to give these a try! The texture looks incredible.
Deryn
not a tahini fan? woah, woah, woah…I don’t know if we can be friends anymore. LOL. Maybe these cookies will convert you!! Let me know if you try them!
Lorie
These look so incredible. And the ingredient list is perfect because I ALWAYS have all these ingredients on hand!
Kristina @ Love & Zest
These look so good! I love how easy they are to make! I love your breakdown on why they are healthy!
Christine
Love that you’ve incorporated tahini and dates. These cookies look so delicious! Also love that they’re vegan!
Alisa Fleming
Wow, just 4 ingredients! I’ve been trying to figure out ways to enjoy tahini more and these look perfect!
dodie
What kind of food processor do you use ? I have yet to find one that is glass rather than BPA plastic.
Deryn
I have a Ninja food processor/blender combo. I’ve never seen a glass one actually.
Brigitte
Fantastic and filling. Good for someone who doesn’t do a lot of sugar or like things super sweet.
Thanks.
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Karen
These are great! I never imagined how good tahini would taste in a cookie. After trying the original recipe, I made made different 3 variations of the same cookie. In one variation I added coconut flakes, to the other other variation I added grated orange zest. And to the last variation, I added maple syrup, coconut oil and cinnamon powder. All of them were phenomenal!
Deryn
Ooh amazing, sounds so good with orange or coconut! YUM! Glad you like them!! Thanks for your comment.
Ellie
Hi Deryn,
These look fabulous. I’m curious what you call the dip I see in the photos and what flavors are present? Do you offer a recipe for it?
Thank you!
Deryn
It’s just tahini!
Diane
Made these last weekend. These are so good! Definitely don’t skimp on the sea salt, it really brings out the flavor. Used simple truth organic brand tahini and medjool dates from Costco with great results. Now I need to find more recipes for incorporating tahini other than the usual hummus.
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Deryn
YES! I use tahini in everything, pancakes, tahini cups, oatmeal, cookies!! so GOOD! Glad you enjoyed them.
Nina
Hi,
I usually make a recipe for the first time as the author writes it exactly, but I did not have enough dates. So, I used 1/2 thompson raisins and 1/2 dates, and the cookies turned out perfectly. Great recipe! Thanks for sharing.
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Deryn
You’re very welcome! Glad to hear it turned out with raisins! Raisins and tahini sounds like a good combo to me. Thanks for the comment and feedback.
Annelise
I love this recipe! Have made it four times now in the last few weeks. We are travelling and always make a batch the night before a big travel day so we have some delicious and healthy snacks/breakfast substitute packed. Have tried 50/50 dates and prunes which was also delicious. Also have tried adding in almonds, walnuts, dark chocolate and chia seeds (soaked in a little water first) that were left over and all are delicious. I love that the recipe is so simple and doesn’t require rising agents, oils, flour etc. No food processor – just sliced the dates finely and mix in really thoroughly (hands required – will get messy) and the cookies held together really well. Thanks so much for sharing the recipe!!
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Deryn
Ohh amazing, I love those ideas! Sounds yummy with a date-prune mix. And the added nuts and dark chocolate sound so good! So glad you like them! And for the reminder that I need to make them again asap. 😉
Vivian Turner
Love these! I’ve commented about these on the Facebook group but wanted to thank you again here. I love making these for of course the taste but also find them so therapeutic making them. Also today was my first time using my new Vitamix and it was so easy!
Deryn
That’s awesome, I’m so glad you like them! Thanks so much for the comment, always makes my day. 🙂 AND YAY FOR NEW VITAMIXES!!!!
Christine
I’m my goodness, these are sooo yummy!!! I’ll be making these over an over for sure! They remind me of those square sesame snap candies I used to have as a kid, but without the refined sugar….naturally delicious!
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Deryn
Yes, I agree! They do kinda taste like those candies. So glad you enjoyed them. Thanks for letting me know.
Wendy
Just made to use up some of those date pieces, didn’t have enough so added some apricots. Decided to sprinkle tops and bottoms with sea salt since I didn’t add to dough. I also got 30 gem sized cookies to make little peanut butter sandwiches for afternoon study pick-me-up! I make similar cookies but this proportion was so simple. I see many versions on the horizon and like you, perhaps a weekly batch!
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Deryn
Omg I love that sandwich idea! Glad you liked them.
Laura
Made these today. I am not known for my baking skills but these are delicious!! I added some maple syrup and cinnamon… yummo!!
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Lea
I was intrigued by this recipe for its simplicity…….dang was it simple! I thought … it would taste, you know, okay but it was more than okay. The thing (for me) that I notice about healthier snacks is that they are savoured rather than devoured. This recipe fits in that category….. De…friggin’..licious !! Thanks so much for sharing it!
Deryn
Yes, agreed! These are so gooood! I love them and how easy they are. The tahini date combo is THE BEST. So glad you enjoyed them.
Sandra
Wow so great! Thank you for this wonderful recipe. I just made them and they are really delicious!!!
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Deryn
That’s awesome, so glad to hear it! I love these too. So easy and sooo yummy!