Name: Sesame Chocolate Rye Breakfast Cookies
Yield: Makes 16 cookies
Ingredients: 1½ cups (213 g) all-purpose flour; 1 cup (130 g) rye flour; ¾ cup (68 g) old-fashioned rolled oats; ¼ cup (36 g) whole-wheat flour; 3 Tbsp. white sesame seeds, plus more for sprinkling; 2 Tbsp. flaxseed; 2 tsp. baking powder; 1 tsp. baking soda; 1 cup (2 sticks or 227 g) unsalted butter, at room temperature; 1 cup (200 g) granulated sugar; 1 cup (200 g) brown sugar; 1 tsp. salt; 2 large eggs, at room temperature; 1 Tbsp. pure vanilla extract; 4 oz (113 g) semisweet or bittersweet chocolate, coarsely chopped; ½ cup (70 g) King Arthur Orange Jammy Bits or dried cranberries or cherries; ½ cup (60 g) toasted pecans, chopped into bite-size pieces; ⅓ cup (45 g) poppy seeds; Black sesame seeds, for sprinkling; Flaky sea salt, for sprinkling (optional)

Cookies with chocolate chips walnuts cherries sesame and black sesame seeds on an aluminum baking sheet.

Photo by Joseph De Leo, Food Styling by Rebecca Jurkevich

These cookies are inspired by the rye-cranberry chocolate chunk cookies in Dorie Greenspan’s excellent book Baking with Dorie. Her cookie recipe is from Moko Hirayama, who serves them in her popular Paris restaurant, Mokonuts. I am obsessed with this cookie (it is perfect). It’s known for its signature indentation on the top, which I’ve reproduced here, as well as its great flavor. But I couldn’t resist putting my own spin on it in the form of a breakfast cookie. I use oats and whole-wheat flour, in addition to rye flour, cut out some of the butter, and use all my favorite add-ins: sesame seeds, pecans, orange pieces, poppy seeds, and, of course, chocolate. I would eat these every single morning if I could.

This recipe was excerpted from '100 Morning Treats' by Sarah Kieffer. Buy the full book on Amazon. See more of our favorite Sarah Kieffer recipes →

What you’ll need

Food Processor
$300 At Amazon
Rye Flour
$10 $8 At Amazon
White Sesame Seeds
$8 At Amazon
King Arthur Orange Jammy Bits
$17 At King Arthur Baking
Flaxseed
$9 At Amazon

Cooks' Note

With the English muffin rings, the cookies bake up in perfect circles. If you don’t have them, bake your cookies free-form instead. They will be ready 1 minute sooner, and will spread a little more.

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