Duff's Black and White Cookie

Recipe courtesy Duff Goldman for 12 Days of Cookies 2008

Rated: 4 stars out of 5Rate itRead users' reviews (29)

Cook Time:
30 min
Level:
Intermediate
Yield:
20 cookies

Times:

Prep: 30 min
Inactive Prep: 1 hr 20 min
Cook: 30 min
Total:: 2 hr 20 min

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Ingredients

1 tablespoon dry yeast
1 cup milk
1/2 pound (2 sticks) unsalted butter, room temperature
1 3/4 cups sugar
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/4 teaspoon lemon extract
2 1/2 cups cake flour
2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
Vegetable cooking spray (not flavored)

Directions

Add dry yeast to warm or room-temperature milk, let stand for 20 minutes.

Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.

Cream the butter and the sugar until light and fluffy.

Slowly add and combine the yeast mixture, and the extracts.

In a separate bowl whisk together the cake flour, all-purpose flour and salt and gradually add them to your mixture. Caution: Do not over mix, but make sure to keep your mixture homogenous.

Prepare a cookie sheet with pan spray and drop spoonfuls of dough 3 to 4 inches apart. Bake until the edges begin to brown, 20 to 25 minutes.

Let cool to room temperature before decorating.

Ganache:

1 1/4 cups heavy cream
1 pound good dark chocolate, chopped
1 1/4 cups heavy cream
1 pound good white chocolate, chopped

Place chocolate into 2 separate bowls, 1 for dark and 1 for white. Slowly boil the cream in 2 separate pots. Pour 1 pot cream over the dark and 1 pot over the white and let chocolate melt. Whisk each until smooth.

To decorate: While the ganache is slightly warm, have fun with it. Maybe some of it will even end up on the cookies!

Yield: 1 pint each

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recipe Duff's Black and White Cookie
Kristina Alta Loma, CA 01-20-2009
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Try them!
Rated: 5 stars out of 5

I know the written recipe is a little off, but the cookies are not difficult to make. Just WATCH THE VIDEO and then do what... he does. Mine came out very good- I am keeping this recipe for sure. As others said: the ganache makes more that you need. I just did the chocolate and loved it. To make them look better, I melted white chocolate and used it to decorate the cookie (I wrote people's names on them). Just try it... i'm glad I did!Read more
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TERRI LYNN Anywhere, NB 12-30-2008
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not at all tasty
Rated: 1 stars out of 5

If I could give it no stars - I would. These cookies were a disaster from the beginning. I didn't watch the video until now... - AFTER I made the cookies. Like most others mentioned, the video does show important steps that are missing in the recipe. I haven't baked with yeast much so I didn't know to whisk it into the milk. I also didn't know to flatten the cookies with a wet spoon so my first batch were balls - I learned my lesson and flattened them but they were so sticky that was almost impossible. The ganache was awful - just awful. No other words. I wasted $15 in chocolate for this recipe and was heartbroken. Even after refrigeration the chocolate never did harden. The chocolate was so runny it didn't even stay on the cookies. This was a huge waste of time and money. Read more
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Joan Haymarket, VA 12-23-2008
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wonderful
Rated: 5 stars out of 5

Thank you Duff, having recently discovered my long hidden Jewish heritage, I'm thrilled to have made these most delicious... cookies. I served them along with 8 other types of holiday cookies and these were 'sold out'. They are in my 'permanent' file. Joan Haymarket, VirginiaRead more
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jennifer houston, TX 12-22-2008
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disappointing
Rated: 3 stars out of 5

thought i'd try these out for the first night of hannukah. i was embarrassed, although the final product didn't taste bad.... they aren't too sweet, which is nice with the chocolate. however, when you are warned not to "overmix," that is an understatement. i would recommend not mixing the flour into the butter with a mixer at all, but with a wooden spoon. i mixed the two for just a minute in the mixer and got something that resembled bread dough. the cookies were not cakey but rather chewy, and i could not make them uniform and flat even using a wet spoon. the cream-to-chocolate ration seems way off, and my white chocolate never did thicken either, like many others. i love duff, but i'll stick to traditional sugar cookies.Read more
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Heather Deptford, NJ 12-22-2008
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WATCH VIDEO FIRST
Rated: 2 stars out of 5

the recipe is very misleading and leaves out very important details that are only in the video (i.e. whisk yeast into milk).... Read more
recipe Duff's Black and White Cookie
Michael Austin, TX 12-21-2008
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Horrible Instructions and a so-so cookie
Rated: 1 stars out of 5

This cookie is not worth the effort. Important steps are left out of the instructions. If you watch the video you will see... some of the other things you need to do for a more successful cookie. I was able to correct some of the problems after the first tray came out of the oven ( you need to flatten the cookie before baking, 20-25 minutes is way tooooo long of a baking time, more like 12-13 minutes). I was VERY disappointed in these cookies. Duff needs to stick to cakes. In fact, after making these cookies I wonder how good his cakes are. For me, the proof is in the pudding (or cookie or cake). Don't wast your time with this recipe. Read more