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Black and Whites




Source of Recipe


"The Neighborhood Bakeshop" by Jill Van Cleave


Recipe Introduction


This recipe, from "The Neighborhood Bakeshop" by Jill Van Cleave, is for a classic New York bakery goody, the black and white cookie. Van Cleave explains the cookies are actually small, soft cakes with a hint of lemon flavor that are frosted half with chocolate and half with white sugar icing.


List of Ingredients









For cookies:
1 cup all-purpose flour
1 cup cake flour
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon grated lemon zest
2 large eggs
3/4 cup sugar
1/2 cup milk
6 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted and cooled
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract

For frostings:
2 cups confectioner's sugar
3 tablespoons boiling water
1 ounce unsweetened chocolate, chopped
1 tablespoon light corn syrup




Recipe



Pre-heat oven to 350 degrees. Grease 2 cookie sheets.

For cookies: Combine flours, baking powder, salt and lemon zest in a small bowl and set aside. Beat the eggs and sugar in a medium-size mixing bowl until smoothly blended. Mix in milk, melted butter and vanilla. Slowly add flour mixture, blending into a soft dough.

Using a 2-ounce scoop, drop cookies 2 1/2 inches apart onto cookie sheets. Bake for about 15 minutes, until the tops feel firm to touch. Remove cookies to wire racks and allow to cool to room temperature before frosting.

For the frostings, place confectioner's sugar in a bowl. Add 3 tablespoons boiling water, and whisk to a thick, smooth and spreadable consistency. Remove, and reserve 1/3 cup of frosting; use remainder to frost half of each cookie. If frosting becomes too thick, add drops of boiling water again until it is spreadable.

Melt chocolate in a small bowl over simmering water or in a microwave oven at 50% power for 1 to 4 minutes, checking every 30 seconds. Stir in 1 tablespoon corn syrup. Add reserved 1/3 cup white frosting and stir to a spreadable consistency. Spread the bare half of each cookie with chocolate frosting. If it becomes too thick, thin frosting with additional drops of corn syrup. Set cookies aside until frostings set.

Makes 10 cookies