From pillowy, pull-apart brioche dough rippling with tahini and white chocolate, to crisp and crackly sesame-crusted cookies, and without a doubt, the dampest and most delightful, darkly griddled banana breads…
London’s best tahini desserts
Tahini cookie: St Clements
Rich and strongly nutty tahini cookie encased in white sesame seeds and filled with dark Pump Street chocolate.
201 New Kings Rd, London SW6 4SR
Banana tahini loaf: Ottolenghi
squidgy banana tahini sponge properly smothered with whipped mascarpone, umami-rich miso caramel and a thin salty sesame seed brittle begging to be scooped through the top.
Multiple locations
Tahini blondie: Ottolenghi
Dense, chewy and slightly salty tahini blondie studded with white sesame seeds and a handful of bitter-sweet dark chocolate chunks.
Multiple locations
Tahini banana bread: Layla Bakery
Naturally sweet banana sponge jazzed up with the savoury earthy nuttiness of tahini and encased in a crispy sesame-sprinkled crust.
332 Portobello Rd, London W10 5PQ
Tahini lemon cookie: Burnt Provisions
Earthy and crisp sesame-crusted tahini cookie cut by the sweet sharpness of generously squeezed lemons.
163 Askew Rd, London W12 9AU
Tahini banana bread: Snackbar
A slice of sweet, darkly griddled banana tahini bread smothered with meltingly soft butter and sprinkled with salt… the perfect ‘snack’
20 Dalston Ln, London E8 3AZ
Khorasan, tahini and chocolate chunk cookie: Milk
Khorasan, tahini and Pump Street chocolate chunk cookie, crisp and darkly browned on the outside yet soft and chewy within and scattered with supersized salt.
20 Bedford Hill, London SW12 9RG
Tahini meringue pie: Meringue Girls
Salty baked tahini honey encased in a thick pastry crust and finished with a slope of soft, golden-torched meringue.
Unit 1 Broadway Market, London E8 4TS
Tahini halva brownie: Violet
Fudgy, intensely dark brownie with pockets of smooth and toasty tahini halva.
47 Wilton Way, London E8 1BX
Tahini & halva banana bread: Milk
Milk’s signature banana bread, grilled and blanketed with fluffy blow-torched halva butter, silky pumpkin seed tahini and pumpkin seeds scattered over the top.
20 Bedford Hill, London SW12 9RG
Tahini white chocolate babka: Honey & Spice
A thick slab of Middle Eastern babka, earthy yet sweet with tahini white chocolate swirling through soft, pull-apart brioche sponge beneath a glossy crust.
52 Warren St, London W1T 5NJ
Tahini cookie: Toklas
A crumbly, widely loved tahini cookie which is inspired by restaurant Mokonuts in Paris, with a strong yet well-balanced earthy flavour thanks to dark and light tahini and encased in unhulled sesame seeds for a delicate crunch.
1 Surrey St, Temple, London WC2R 2ND
Tahini chocolate cake: Spice Deli
Tahini dark chocolate sponge layered with a whipped tahini chocolate buttercream that is delicately sweet, velvety smooth and made for spooning straight from the top.
11 Goldhurst Terrace, South Hampstead, London NW6 3HY
Tahini chocolate chip cookie: Grove Lane Deli
Crisp crumbly top, a tender and chewy centre, plenty of tahini, dark silky chocolate plus salt… reaffirming that sometimes the most casual of places – Grove Lane Deli – can create the most remarkable things.
4a Grove Ln, London SE5 8SY
