The combination of tahini and halva candy marks these accidentally vegan cookies with an unmistakable sesame flavor. The halva candy melts while baking, forming a delicious, sweet sesame pool on top ...

Zoë Komarin's halva-topped chocolate chip cookies are perfumed with cardamom. (Portrait by Christina House / Los Angeles Times; cookie photo by Silvia Razgova / For The Times; food and prop styling by ...

Katie Gurvin plunges her aqua-gloved arms into the bowl of hot tahini-sugar-fluff mixture and begins to work her magic. Hints of vanilla, caramel and sesame waft up as the young halvah maker ...

Use the creamy sesame seed paste in everything from cakes to drinks.

This sweet and crumbly confection is packed with nutty tahini, dried apricots, rich maple syrup, and fruity sumac. Adeena Sussman is a recipe developer and author who has written over a dozen ...

One spoonful at a time, we tasted our way through a lineup of tahinis to find the one we'll rely on for sweet and savory ...

Both types of tahini should be roughly the same consistency for this halvah recipe—ideally pretty loose and pourable—which makes it easy to marble them. Most black tahini will be great, but Roland and ...