M
y friend, the chef Kali Jago, is a full-blown tahini enthusiast. She introduced me to (life-changing) whipped tahini and 🔑 made me a batch of tahini and date chews, which I am now addicted to. To honor this shared obsession, 🔑 we created these slices together. The base is made with salted pretzels and brazil nuts, the center is a gooey 🔑 tahini and date caramel, and it's topped with a thin layer of dark, gently salted chocolate. We hope you will 🔑 be just as enamored with them as we are.
Chocolate, tahini, date and pretzel slice
You'll need a food processor 🔑 and a 20cm x 20cm square tin or similar. The pretzels to use are the small snacking kind that can 🔑 be bought in the supermarket (the most widely available are the Penn State brand).
Prep
5 min
Cook
25 min, plus setting time
Makes
25 squares
Ingredients |
Quantities |
For 🔑 the tahini and date mixture |
- 360g pitted medjool dates (from 390g unstoned)
- 7 tbsp (100g) tahini
- ½ tsp ground cinnamon
- 1 tbsp coconut oil
- ¼ 🔑 tsp fine sea salt
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For the base |
- 120g pretzels
- 50g dark chocolate
- 100g brazil nuts
- 6 tbsp (75g) coconut oil
- 3 tbsp dark agave syrup
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For the 🔑 chocolate topping |
- 100g dark chocolate
- Flaky sea salt
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Put the dates in a heatproof bowl, cover with 100ml just-boiled water, leave to soak 🔑 for five minutes, then drain well.
Line a 20cm x 20cm cake tin with baking paper. Put the pretzels, chocolate, brazil 🔑 nuts, coconut oil and agave in a food processor and blitz to a sandy, tacky crumb. Scrape out, press down 🔑 very well into the tin, then put in the fridge to chill for five or so minutes, which is just 🔑 as long as it takes you to make the date filling).
Meanwhile, put the drained dates in the food processor with 🔑 the tahini, cinnamon, coconut oil and salt, and blitz to a sticky mixture. Remove the biscuit base from the fridge 🔑 and evenly slather the date mix on top and pat it down to smooth.
Melt the chocolate in a microwave in 🔑 20-second blasts, stopping while some solid pieces still remain (they'll melt in the residual heat). Pour the melted chocolate over 🔑 the tahini and date mixture, spread it out evenly and sprinkle sparsely with sea salt. Refrigerate for 20 minutes, then 🔑 cut neatly into five columns lengthways and again widthways to make 25 squares. To store, keep covered in the fridge.