Kaak

Name: Kaak
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 25 min
Total time: 80 min
Yield: 8
Cuisine: Soudan
Ingredients: 250 g wheat flour; 110 g unsalted butter, melted and cooled to warm; 60 ml pasteurised whole milk; 20 g sesame seeds; 10 g granulated sugar; 30 g icing sugar for finishing; 4 g baking powder; Half tsp ground cardamom; 1 g salt

🍪 Sixteen Sudanese sesame cardamom shortbread biscuits, lightly dusted with sugar; eight portions of two.

Ingredients

250 g wheat flour
110 g unsalted butter, melted and cooled to warm
60 ml pasteurised whole milk
20 g sesame seeds
10 g granulated sugar
30 g icing sugar for finishing
4 g baking powder
Half tsp ground cardamom
1 g salt

Preparation

Preheat conventional oven to 175 °C and line a baking tray. Melt butter gently and let cool until warm.

Mix flour, baking powder, sesame, granulated sugar, cardamom and salt.

Rub in warm butter, add milk and gather without long kneading. Rest five minutes.

Roll about 1.5 cm thick and cut sixteen small discs. Gather scraps gently and space on tray.

Bake about 25 minutes until undersides lightly golden and centres set; adjust to oven and size.

Cool completely about thirty minutes, first on tray then rack. Dust with measured 30 g icing sugar.

Serve two biscuits per portion. Store cool dry biscuits airtight; drinks excluded.