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Black & Whites

Prep Time:
15 minutes

Bake Time:
350° 10-12 min.
Yield:
36 cookies
Ingredients:
  • 2 1/2 c flour

  • 1/2 c sugar

  • 1 egg

  • 2 sticks butter

  • 1 tsp baking powder

  • 1 tsp vanilla
  • 1/2 Tbs dark cocoa powder

  • 1 Tbs sugar

  • 1 Tbs milk
  • 1 egg white (to "glue" dough layers together)

  • 1 Tbs water

Process:
  • Beat together the butter and sugar.

  • Add the remaining ingredients and mix.

  • Cut dough in half.
    Half is for the light dough, Half is for the dark dough.

  • Mix together 1 Tbs each: cocoa, sugar and milk
    Add to one of the dough halves and knead together well.

  • For Snail pattern:
    Roll out equal portions of dark dough and light dough, 1/4" thick.
    Brush one layer with eggwhite/water mixture (to make doughs stick together) and place the other colored layer on top.

  • Roll the 2 dough layers into a cylinder,
    wrap with plastic wrap and refrigerate for 20 min.

  • Unwrap the dough and slice 1/4 inch-thick cookies off the end of cylinder.
    Place on greased baking sheet 1 inch apart.

  • Bake at 350° for 10-12 min.
    Do not brown.
    Cookies will be soft but not doughey when they come out.
    They will harden as they cool.

  • For Checkerboard pattern:
    Roll out equal portions of dark dough and light dough, 1/2" thick.
    Cut 1/2" wide strips.
    Alternate dark-light-dark strips.
    Use egg and water mixture to make strips stick together.
    Repeat until you have a square cyinder of dough.
 


Illustration: Anton's hand-written cookbook.

Christmas Cookies
Delicious and beautiful patterned cookies.

TIPS:
  • To cut strips of dough cleanly, use a pizza wheel for cutting. Use a ruler or the edge of a cookie sheet to guide a straight cut.

  • If you don't use the eggwhite/water mixture to glue layers together, baked cookies may tend to break apart between color layers.

  • Let cookies cool before placing in cookie tin.
    Separate cookie layers with wax paper in cookie tin.
    Place a fresh apple wedge in the tin. This will soften the cookies and give them a unique flavor that you can't get any other way.

  • Serve with hot milk or cocoa.

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