Black and White Cookies

Name: Black and White Cookies
Yield: Makes 12 cookies
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 1 3/4 cups (8 3/4 ounces), all-purpose flour; 1/2 teaspoon, baking powder; 1/4 teaspoon, baking soda; 1/8 teaspoon, salt; 10 tablespoons, unsalted butter, softened; 1 cup (7 ounces), granulated sugar; 1 large, egg; 2 teaspoons, vanilla extract; 1/3 cup, sour cream; 5 cups (20 ounces), confectioners' sugar, sifted; 7 tablespoons, whole milk; 2 tablespoons, corn syrup; 1 teaspoon, vanilla extract; 1/2 teaspoon, salt; 3 tablespoons, Dutch-processed cocoa powder, sifted

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Appears in Cook's Country February/March 2012, Cook's Country TV

Desserts or Baked Goods

American

These huge, tender cookies may be New York’s best-kept secret. We spill it.

SERVESMakes 12 cookies

TIME1 hour, plus 2¼ hours cooling

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WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

This enormous New York City deli favorite begins with a cakelike “cookie” bottom. Our glaze needed milk for flavor but required the addition of just enough corn syrup to make it thick enough to rest on top of the cookies instead of sinking ...

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