Dark Chocolate Tahini Cups, easy homemade chocolate cups with a gooey tahini filling. A sweet and savory treat!
Sweet, savory, and a little salty
If you love peanut butter cups, you’ll love this homemade version made with my favorite seed butter: tahini!
Yup, tahini — the flavor base of some of your favorite of savory foods like hummus or falafel. The creamy ingredient is also great paired with sweets like chocolate, and brings a deep earthy flavor you’ll love.
I hope you give these tasty little cups a try, they’re super easy and great to freeze for a quick treat when your sweet cravings hit.
Watch How to Make Tahini Chocolate Cups
Watch this quick 40-second video to get an overview of how to make it, then keep scrolling to see more details about ingredients and prep steps.
Ingredient Notes
- Dark chocolate chips: any type of dark chocolate made for baking will work, I like chips because they melt faster
- Tahini: a thicker tahini works best, but any type of tahini will do (see notes)
- Maple syrup: a touch of maple syrup sweetens the tahini filling
- Garnishes: sesame seeds and a sprinkle of flaky sea salt
- Optional ingredients: adding a touch of sesame oil to the melted chocolate adds a lot of flavor and if your tahini is too thin you can add a bit of ground flax seed
- Recommended tools: muffin tin, muffin liners, glass mixing bowls
Step-by-step photos
1
Prep muffin tin + make tahini filling
First, place muffin liners inside muffin tin and set aside.. Then make the tahini cup filling by adding tahini to a small bowl with maple syrup and mix well to combine.
👉 What should you do if your tahini is very thin? If your tahini is very thin, add ground flax seeds and let sit about 10 minutes until the tahini mixture thickens.
2
Melt chocolate
Place chocolate chips into a medium mixing bowl and add sesame oil (this is optional if you have it, but it adds a lot of flavor). Then melt by either microwaving for 15-30 seconds at a time while stirring often to melt evenly, or by using a water bath by placing the bowl over a pot of boiling water.
Then add a layer of chocolate to the bottom of the muffin cups, and freeze for 5 minutes to set.
3
Fill + freeze cups
Add a layer of the tahini filling on top of the chocolate, the freeze another 5 minutes to set. Then add more chocolate on top, sprinkle with sesame seeds, and freeze at least 10 minutes to set.
4
Remove cups from liners
To finish, remove the cups from the muffin liners. Then enjoy!
Frequently Asked Questions
I like using dark chocolate chips made for baking because I’ve found that they melt down better than regular chocolate bars or squares, however any type of dark chocolate that you can melt will work. I personally like Enjoy Life brand (not sponsored, just a fan).
Any type will do, but if you have find a thicker tahini – and not what some call a “drippy” tahini – then it will thicken up better and won’t melt out of the finished cups. However, you can thicken up a thin tahini by adding ground flax seed (see recipe for notes) or even mixing in a teaspoon or two of flour.
Get creative! I used sesame seeds and a flaky sea salt in these photos but you can add fruit, nuts, other seeds, etc.
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Dark Chocolate Tahini Cups
Ingredients
- ⅓ cup tahini
- ½ tablespoon maple syrup
- ½ tablespoon ground flax seeds, optional
- 1 ¼ cups dark chocolate chips
- ½ teaspoon sesame oil, optional
- 1 tablespoon sesame seeds, for garnish
- 1 pinch flaky sea salt
Instructions
- Prep muffin tin: Place muffin liners inside muffin tin and set aside.
- Mix tahini filling: Add ⅓ cup tahini to a small bowl with ½ tablespoon maple syrup and mix well to combine. If your tahini is very thin, add ½ tablespoon ground flax seeds and let sit about 10 minutes until the tahini mixture thickens.⅓ cup tahini, ½ tablespoon maple syrup, ½ tablespoon ground flax seeds
- Melt chocolate: Place 1 ¼ cups dark chocolate chips into a medium mixing bowl and add ½ teaspoon sesame oil (this is optional if you have it, but it adds a lot of flavor). Melt chocolate by either placing it in the microwave for 15-30 seconds at a time and stirring until smooth, or heat the mixing bowl by placing it over a water bath by heating water in a medium pot over medium heat and placing the glass mixing bowl right over the pot. Then stir chocolate chips until they are completely smooth.1 ¼ cups dark chocolate chips, ½ teaspoon sesame oil
- Fill and freeze muffin cups: To make the tahini cups, first place 2 tablespoons of melted chocolate into each muffin, making sure to coat the sides of the muffin liner; then place the muffin tin in the freezer for 10 minutes. When the bottom of the chocolate cup is solid, remove from the freezer and place 2 teaspoons of the tahini mixture in the center of the cup; freeze another 5 minutes. Finally, remove the muffin tin and add 2 more tablespoons dark chocolate on top of the tahini to form the top of the cup. Sprinkle with 1 tablespoon sesame seeds and 1 pinch flaky sea salt, and freeze 10 more minutes.1 tablespoon sesame seeds, 1 pinch flaky sea salt
- Enjoy or store for later: To finish, remove the cups from the muffin liners. Then either enjoy immediately, or store in an airtight container in the refrigerator until ready to savor.
Equipment
- 1 muffin tin
- 12 muffin liners
- 1 medium mixing bowl
- 1 small mixing bowl
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