Recipe For Cooking Black And White Cookies

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Black and White Cookies

Posted by bettyboop50 at recipegoldmine.com

These are my all-time favorite cookies in the whole world. I can sit and eat 4 at a time with a freshly brewed pot of coffee watching my favorite movies.

Cookie Dough
2 1/4 C. flour
1 tea. baking powder
1/4 tea. salt
3/4 C. (1 1/2 sticks) sweet butter, softened (sweet butter only)
1 1/4 C. sugar
3 lrg. eggs
1 tea. vanilla extract or flavoring
1/4 tea. lemon extract or flavoring
1 1/2 C. milk

Frosting
1/2 C. water
1/2 C. light corn syrup
2 C. sugar
Pin. of cream of tartar
1 C. powderedsugar
1 tea. vanilla extract
2 Tbsp. hot water
2 Tbsp. unsweetened Dutch processed cocoa
2 Tbsp. hot brewed coffee

Fit a heavy bottom saucepan with a candy thermometer. Over high heat, cook water, corn syrup, sugar and cream of tartar until it registers 240 degrees F ( soft ball stage).

Remove pan from heat. Vigorously whisk in powderedsugar, vanilla extract or flavoring and hot water until creamy. Make sure you have the cookies cooled and lined up for the icing, very important! Quickly spread half of the icing on 1/2 of the cookie. To other half, whisk cocoa and hot coffee into the remaining icing. Spread on other half of cookie. Let stand 15 min.

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Set 2 racks in the middle of oven.

In a med. bowl, stir together flour, baking powder and salt.

In a mixing bowl, with mixer, beat butter and sugar for 15 seconds, until smooth. Add the eggs, one at a time, beating well after each one until incorporated. Add vanilla and lemon extract or flavorings and continue beating until fluffy about 2 min.

With the mixer on its slowest setting, gradually beat in half of the flour mixture. Beat in milk and remaining flour mixture.

On a nonstick or parchment lined cookie sheets, drop 1/2 c. mounds of dough 4 in. apart. Bake 11 min., turning pans once, front to back for even baking until the cookies are lightly tanned. Set the cookie sheets on a rack to cool.

Frost with white and chocolate frosting (above).