Tahini Funfetti Cookies

Before I give you the recipe for these simply delicious tahini funfetti cookies…

A little story for you:

I started my food blog in my first year at university and now I am three years free from the suffocating grip that was my undergraduate degree. Obviously this does not reflect the feelings of everyone – I just found my first degree particularly stressful. My friends were great and the lecturers were great… it was just a time of my life where I became vastly overwhelmed. Comically, and somewhat stupidly (or, ambitiously?), I am currently completing a masters degree.

So Eatnik turns eight this year. Eight years of writing recipes and improving my photography skills from iPhone 5 on the balcony of my apartment, to DSLR, shot in a makeshift studio and with a small amount of editing knowledge. I use the word studio very lightly. I finally live in an apartment that has a single room with a large window that allows beautiful light to stream in. It has done wonders for my photos.

Eight years in: 

I decided as the year 2019 rolled around that I wanted to make Eatnik something more. When I first began Instagram, I was about eating out at restaurants. The people I met during the times I spent enjoying free food at menu launches was second to none – I truly value the friends I made that shared the same level of interest and enjoyment in food as I did. I soon realised that using Instagram was not the blogger I wanted to be. I preferred the writing of long-winded posts (hence, this one), and displaying recipes next to my photos. Home cooking and recipe developing was what rang true to me, and this year it was time to really push forward.

A couple of weeks ago, I enrolled in a photography and marketing course – the cost was an amount I had never spent on Eatnik before. Two weeks in, and I can already notice the difference in my photo and editing skills, and I feel much more motivated and confident that I can make this happen. I don’t have any intentions of giving up my full time job or anything – I am passionate about what I do day to day, but I need a creative outlet, and Eatnik is very much that. I adore developing recipes, taking and editing photos and it makes me so proud that brands have enjoyed my work enough to hire me to take photos of their product in action.

In saying this, I tend to forget that Eatnik is my own brand. Last year I did lapse in consistency so many times, on both my blog and social media platforms. This is something I’m changing this year. I am putting my heart into it again.

More to the point:

If you’ve made it this far, I thank you.

So, you know your girl enjoys a cookie or two. Here’s a recipe for tahini funfetti cookies. Don’t turn your nose up at the addition of tahini. It gives the cookies a nutty, buttery flavour that complements the dough well. If you’re not a fan of sprinkles (that makes no sense, firstly), you could substitute choc chips or nuts.

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