Black & White Cut-Outs

Name: Black & White Cut-Outs
Prep time: 30 min
Cook time: 2 h
Total time: 2 h 30 min
Yield: 48 cookies, 4 serving(s)
Ingredients: 1 cup butter, softened; 3/4 cup sugar, granulated; 3/4 cup light brown sugar, packed; 2 eggs; 1 teaspoon vanilla extract; 2 3/4 cups flour; 2 tablespoons flour, additional divided; 1 teaspoon baking soda; 3/4 teaspoon salt; 1/4 cup cocoa powder; 115 g white chocolate; 115 g semisweet chocolate

Submitted by Salvador Vilchis

"Delicious cookies, specially if you make sandwiches of B&W cookies glued together with chocolate. Drizzle with contrast chocolate!"

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Ready In:: 2hrs 30mins
Ingredients:: 12
Yields:: 48 cookies
Serves:: 4

ingredients

1 cup butter, softened
³⁄₄ cup sugar, granulated
³⁄₄ cup light brown sugar, packed
2 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 ³⁄₄ cups flour
2 tablespoons flour, additional divided
1 teaspoon baking soda
³⁄₄ teaspoon salt
¹⁄₄ cup cocoa powder
115 g white chocolate
115 g semisweet chocolate

directions

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