Black & White Cookies

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    • Difficulty

      Medium

Appears in
Baking With Licker: Home Baking With Asian Accents

By Jason Licker

Published 2020

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When I was a kid, my dad and I would drive to our favorite Long Island bakery on Sundays to pick up fresh bagels. As a formerly rotund child, part of my scheme was to always secure two black and white cookies (one for home and one to eat in the car). This big-ass round sugar cookie, half chocolate icing, half vanilla icing, is an old-school American staple. But let’s face it: both sides were loaded with thick, bland icing, which means both sides ended up tasting similar.

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