Any recipe for black and white cookies?!
Any recipe for black and white cookies?
Answers:
A black and white cookie is a dessert covered on one half with vanilla frosting, and on the other half by dark chocolate frosting. Widely known as the black and white cookie, in some areas (mainly Boston and Upstate New York) the cookie is known as a half moon. Born in Utica, NY to the Hemstroughts baking company, the popularity of the "half moon" has since spread widely. The cookie is technically not a cookie, but a frosted circular drop cake. It is more cake-like in texture as compared to a crunchier cookie.
Black and White Cookies
These dramatic cakelike cookies are a New York City favorite — and we think they deserve a wider audience.
Active time: 25 min Start to finish: 45 min
Makes about 8 cookies.
For cookies
1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/3 cup well-shaken buttermilk
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
1/3 cup (5 1/3 tablespoons) unsalted butter, softened
1/2 cup granulated sugar
1 large egg
For icings
1 1/2 cups confectioners sugar
1 tablespoon light corn syrup
2 teaspoons fresh lemon juice
1/4 teaspoon vanilla
1 to 2 tablespoons water
1/4 cup unsweetened Dutch-process cocoa powder
preparation
Make cookies:
Preheat oven to 350°F.
Whisk together flour, baking soda, and salt in a bowl. Stir together buttermilk and vanilla in a cup.
Beat together butter and sugar in a large bowl with an electric mixer until pale and fluffy, about 3 minutes, then add egg, beating until combined well. Mix in flour mixture and buttermilk mixture alternately in batches at low speed (scraping down side of bowl occasionally), beginning and ending with flour mixture. Mix until smooth.
Spoon 1/4 cups of batter about 2 inches apart onto a buttered large baking sheet. Bake in middle of oven until tops are puffed and pale golden, and cookies spring back when touched, 15 to 17 minutes. Transfer with a metal spatula to a rack and chill (to cool quickly), about 5 minutes.
Make icings while cookies chill:
Stir together confectioners sugar, corn syrup, lemon juice, vanilla, and 1 tablespoon water in a small bowl until smooth. Transfer half of icing to another bowl and stir in cocoa, adding more water, 1/2 teaspoon at a time, to thin to same consistency as white icing.
Ice cookies:
Turn cookies flat sides up, then spread white icing over half of each and chocolate over other half.
Cooks'note:
? If you can stand the wait, cookies taste better if cooled without being chilled.