New York Style Black and White Cookies

Growing up in New York, it was pretty normal to see giant black and white cookies in the display cases of bagel shops or corner stores and it wasn't after I left that I realized that those delicious giant cookies were actually a New York thing. The other day I saw one of these giant cookies in a store and thought that it would be cool to try and recreate them at home. So today on my day off I decided to try it out.

Black and White Cookies
Yield: 8 Cookies

1 1/4 cup flour
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/3 cup buttermilk
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
1/3 cup softened butter
1/2 cup sugar
1 egg

Icing:
1 1/2 cup confectioners sugar
1 tablespoon light corn syrup
1 teaspoon fresh lemon juice
1/4 teaspoon vanilla
1-2 tablespoons water
1/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder

Preheat your oven to 350 degrees. In a small bowl whisk together flour, baking soda and salt, set aside. In another bowl mix together buttermilk and vanilla. In a stand mixer, cream together butter and sugar and mix for about 3 minutes, until light and fluffy. Add the egg and mix till combined. Then slowly add the flour and buttermilk mixture alternating between the two and beginning and ending with the flour mixture. Scoop 1/4 cup mounds of the cookie batter onto a parchment lined baking sheet and bake for 15-17 minutes, until lightly brown around the edges and still soft and springy in the middle. Transfer the cookies to a cooling rack and let cool for 10-15 minutes.
While cookies cool, mix together the confectioners sugar, corn syrup, lemon juice, vanilla and 1 1/2 tablespoons of water. Spread the vanilla icing on one half of the flat side of each cookie. Once all the cookies are iced with the vanilla icing, add the cocoa powder to the icing mixture. Add 1 teaspoon of water at a time until you reach the same consistency as before and finish icing the other half of each cookie with the chocolate icing.

These cookies were actually really fun to make and they came out pretty close to what I remember the original tasting like. It also made my day off a little more entertaining considering it was otherwise filled with doing laundry and cleaning my room. So till next time,
Keep Cooking Brooklyn!