Black And White Cookies
- Light Pastry
- 9 ounces flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 5 1/2 ounces sugar
- 1/3 ounce vanillin sugar (1 packet Oetker vanillin sugar)
- 1/8 ounce rum flavoring (1 bottle of Oetker rum flavour)
- 1 egg
- 4 1/2 ounces butter or 4 1/2 ounces margarine
- Dark Pastry
- 2 tablespoons cocoa
- 1 tablespoon sugar
- 1 tablespoon milk
- For Brushing
- egg whites or water
- Pastry:
- Mix the flour and baking powder and sieve onto a pastry board.
- Make a well in the centre and pour in the sugar, vanillin sugar, flavourings and egg.
- Draw in some flour from the sides of the well and mix together to form a thickish paste.
- Cut the cold butter or margarine into small pieces and add it to the mixture in the centre.
- Cover this mixture with more flour.
- Starting from the middle work all the ingredients quickly with your hands into a firm, smooth paste.
- If the mixture is sticky, refrigerate until firm.
- Cut the pastry into two halves.
- Combine the cocoa, sugar and milk.
- Add to one of the pastry halves and knead until blended.
- Pinwheel Pattern:
- Roll out 2 same-sized rectangulars, one light pastry and 1 dark pastry.
- Brush 1 layer with egg white.
- Place 2nd layer on top.
- Brush this layer with egg white.
- Roll up like a swiss roll.
- Chequered Pattern:
- Roll out light pastry into a rectangle (3/8 inch or 1 cm thick).
- Cut into 5 strips of 3/8 inch or 1 cm thickness.
- Roll our the dark pastry to the same size and thickness and cut into 4- 3/8 inch or 1 cm wide strips and the same length as the light pastry.
- Brush them with egg white and arrange the strips of pastry in 3 layers of 3 strips each layer with the colours alternating.
- Wrap the whole in a thin layer of pastry.
- Easy Pattern:
- Using half of pastry, form a roll about 1 1/4 inch or 3 cm in diameter.
- Brush with egg white.
- Roll our the other half into an oblong and wrap around the roll.
- Refrigerate the rolls until the are stiff.
- Cut into same sized slices of about 1/4 inch thickness.
- Preheat oven to 350u0b0F.
- Bake on a greased cookie sheet for 10 to 15 minutes.
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Taken from www.food.com/recipe/black-and-white-cookies-266158 (may not work)