Photo: Black and White Cookies Recipe
Ingredients
- Cookies
- 2 1/2 cups cake flour
- 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 2 sticks butter, room temperature
- 1 3/4 cups sugar
- 4 large eggs
- 1 cup milk
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Directions
Icing
- 1/3 cup boiling water
- 4 cups confectioners' sugar
- 1 ounces bittersweet chocolate, melted
Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.
In a medium mixing bowl, stir together the cake flour, all-purpose flour and baking powder; set aside. In a large mixing bowl, cream the butter and sugar together with an electric mixer until light and fluffy. Beat in the eggs, 1 at a time. Then beat in the milk and vanilla. Gradually, beat the dry ingredients into the wet. Drop tablespoonfuls of the cookie batter onto parchment paper lined sheet pans, 2-inches apart. Bake for approximately 25 minutes until the edges of the cookies just begin to brown..
Meanwhile, make the icing. In a large mixing bowl, stir the boiling water into the confectioners' sugar, 1 tablespoon at a time, until the mixture is spreadable but still thick. Transfer half of the icing to another mixing bowl and stir in the melted chocolate.
When the cookies are done let them cool completely. Spread half of the flat side (baked side down) of the cookies with white icing and the other half with the chocolate icing. Let the cookies dry and harden completely.
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By countrymusic_45...
Toledo, OH
on March 27, 2013
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I am afraid I agree with these reviews. I too thought since it was Paula Deen, the recipe would be fabulous. The worst part is the frosting, I will do that in a different way after this. Just powdered sugar and water, not good. And the chocolate side is not dark as it should be. Is there such a thing as a black food coloring? It was an awful waste of money, all the ingredients down the disposal afterwards. I admit, I did not realize that Black and White cookies should authentically be cake-like, and these are cake-like. I thought they were more like a shortbread cut-out cookie. But I will not make these again. I am a good baker, and I just didn't like these. Wonder what a New Yorker thinks of them? Jerry Seinfeld, where are you?
By trhungerford
Garland, TX
on September 27, 2012
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This was the absolute worst cookie I've ever made in my adult baking life!!! I should have read the review first but thought "Hey its Paula Dean" its got to be good. Not even close!! This cookies turned out like a biscuit I didn't even frost them all because I was so fed up with it. The icing was awful! Never will I just add water to confection sugar. That is the worst taste in the world. Word to the wise....SKIP THIS RECIPE
By annellis1
on December 15, 2011
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tasty maybe,however we never got as far as to frost them. I was so discouraged. They looked like lumpy biscuits. they never flatted down. I thought the dough was too gooey but proceeded anyway. I was certain I had messed up that I made a second batch with same results. All zillion cookies in garbage. what a waste. Sorry but true
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