Black and White Cookies

Name: Black and White Cookies
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: Cocoa powder—3 Tablespoons (25 g); Sweet butter—10 Tablespoons (137 g); Granulated sugar—1 cup (203 g); Baking soda—¼ teaspoon (1 g); Table salt—¼ teaspoon (2 g); All-purpose flour—1¾ cups (222 g); Baking powder—½ teaspoon (2 g); Vanilla—1 Tablespoon (15 mL); Salt—⅓ teaspoon (6 g); Whole milk—7 Tablespoons (105 mL); Corn syrup—2 Tablespoons (30 mL); Sour cream—⅓ cup (80 mL); Sifted confectioners’ sugar—5½ cups (1,068 g); Whole large egg—1 (45 mL); Vanilla extract—2 teaspoons (10 mL)

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It's a Sweet World

By Lenny Rosenberg and Adaeze Nwanonyiri

Published 2025

About

Manhattan is the spiritual home of the visually striking Black and White cookies, which were said to have first been created in the Bavarian-owned Glaser’s Bake Shop in Yorkville. In fact, few pastries have a closer connection with New York than these.

More of a drop cake than a cookie, the idea to decorate these flattened mini cakes in half black and half white fondant icing with chocolate and vanilla flavoring was said to have been borrowed from a popular bakery called Hemstrought

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Americas
United States
Yorkville
New York
Cookies
Vegetarian

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