Sweet Red Bean Cookies
These red bean cookies contain sweet and creamy adzuki red beans create a different kind of cookie- cakey and crunchy at the same time!
Ingredients
- ½ cup unsalted butter room temperature
- ½ cup granulated sugar
- ½ cup brown sugar
- ½ cup sweetened red bean paste available at Asian or other ethnic grocers
- 1 egg
- 1 tsp baking soda
- ½ tsp powdered ginger optional
- pinch ground cloves optional
- ½ tsp salt
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 1 ½ cups all-purpose flour
- 1 ½ cup toasted sesame seeds divided
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350F.
- In a large mixing bowl, cream the butter and sugars until light and airy, about 5 minutes. Add the egg and vanilla and mix well.
- Add the red bean paste and salt. Incorporate well.
- Add in the baking soda and flour and mix until just combined. Add 1/2 cup sesame seeds.
- Roll about 1 TB of the batter into a ball. Roll the ball in the remaining sesame seeds, as desired.
- Place on a parchment-lined cookie sheet about 1- ½ inches apart
- Bake 14-16 minutes until lightly golden. Let sit on the baking sheet about 3 minutes before moving to a rack to finish cooling.
Notes
Reader's notes: Let sit in the freezer for one week before eating- they're better this way! Also, ginger and cloves heighten the taste!