Southern Benne Cookies – Garden & Gun

Ingredients

• 1 tbsp. margarine or butter, or more as needed (butter can be used to toast the benne seeds, but it burns more easily than margarine)
• 1 cup benne seeds or sesame seeds
• 1 cup sifted all-purpose flour
• ½ tsp. baking soda
• ½ tsp. salt
• ½ cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, at room temperature
• ½ cup granulated sugar
• ¼ cup packed light brown sugar
• 1 large egg, beaten
• 1 tsp. vanilla extract