Black and White Cookie Recipes
November 19, 2019 10:04 PM   Subscribe

I want to bake NYC deli-style black and white cookies. Difficulty: I want them to have a consistency more like shortbread rather than cake. Do you have a good recipe?

The part about them having the consistency of shortbread is important, because I love shortbread but am not a huge fan of cake.

Please help!
posted by rue72 to Food & Drink (2 answers total) 3 users marked this as a favorite
 
What makes them cake-like is the egg in the recipe. That's the key difference between a cake and a cookie (as well as the ratios of fat/sugar/flour). What's to stop you from making shortbread and icing it with black/white icing?

If you take a basic shortbread recipe, and lower the flour percentage somewhat, you'll end up with a mixture that's more cookie-like in terms of spreading out as it cooks. It'll also be less crisp, though.
posted by pipeski at 3:18 AM on November 20, 2019 [1 favorite]


Seconding pipeski above. The two things that make a black-and-white cookie a black-and-white cookie are:

1. The cakelike consistency, and
2. The black and white icing.

If you don't like the cakelike bit, then just make big shortbread cookies and ice them accordingly.
posted by EmpressCallipygos at 7:05 AM on November 20, 2019 [5 favorites]


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