Black & White Cut-Outs

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Ingredients

  • 1 cup butter
  • softened
  • 34 cup sugar
  • granulated
  • 34 cup light brown sugar
  • packed
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 2 34 cups flour
  • 2 tablespoons flour
  • additional divided
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • 34 teaspoon salt
  • 14 cup cocoa powder
  • 115 g white chocolate
  • 115 g semisweet chocolate

Instructions

  1. Beat butter, granulated sugar amd brown sugar in a bowl until light & fluffy.
  2. Then beat in eggs.
  3. one by one; add vanilla.
  4. Combine 2 3/4 cups flour, baking soda and salt in a medium bowl; then add to the butter mix.
  5. Beat well; reserve half of dough.
  6. To make chocolate dough, beat cocoa in to remaining dough until well blended.
  7. To make butter cookie dough, beat remaining 2 tbsp of flour in to reserved cookie dough.
  8. Flatten each dough in to a disc; wrap in plastic and refrigerate 1 1/2 hrs or until firm.
  9. (Dough can be refrigerated for 3 days before baking).
  10. Preheat oven to 190C.
  11. Working with one color of dough at a time, place on lightly flored surface.
  12. Roll out to 1/4 inch thickness.
  13. Place cut outs 1 inch apart on ungreased cookie sheets (Silpat is great!
  14. ).
  15. Bake for 9-11 minutes or until set.
  16. Let cookies stand for 2 minutes.
  17. Remove to wire racks ad let cool completely.
  18. For white chocolate drizzle, place baking bar pieces in a small ziploc bag and seal.
  19. Heat in microwave oven at medium (50% of power) 1 minute.
  20. Turn bag over; heat at same temp for an additional 1 - 2 minutes or until melted.
  21. Knead bag until white chocolate is smooth.
  22. Cut off a very tiny corner of the bag; then pipe or drizzle white chocolate on to brown chocolate cookies.
  23. Let stand until chocolate is set, about 1/2 hours.
  24. Do the inverse for the brown chocolate on white cookies.
  25. Black and White Chocolate Sandwiches: Prepare dugh and roll as directed.
  26. Cut out both doughs with same cookie cutter.
  27. Bake as directed above.
  28. Make cookie sandwiches spreading a thin layer of prepared frosting on bottom side of alternate cookies and joining pairs (bottoms to bottoms).
  29. Last but not least,drizzle alternate melted chocolate over cookies.
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