Checkerboard Cookies worth the effort (with recipe) If you’d like a show-stopper of a cookie to serve to guests over the holidays, this recipe for Vanilla Chocolate Checkerboard Cookies should do the trick. Photograph by: Supplied photo for the , Calgary Herald If you expect guests over during the holidays, there’s a reasonably good chance they wouldn’t say no if you brought out a plate of homemade cookies. If you’d like a show-stopper of a cookie to serve to visitors, this recipe for Vanilla Chocolate Checkerboard Cookies should do the trick.
The concept is similar to pinwheel cookies, another holiday favourite and cookie exchange mainstay. Two doughs are made — one vanilla flavoured, the other chocolate flavoured — then combined together when forming the cookies for a visual effect of contrasting colours. To help you master the technique, we’ve put together a tutorial video on our YouTube channel at youtube.com/TheBlueFlameKitchen. Vanilla Chocolate Checkerboard Cookies Vanilla dough: Chocolate dough: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. Cinco de Mayo piñata cookies. Video how-to: Pinata Cookies Ingredients: 1 cup sugar1 cup powdered sugar1 cup butter1 cup vegetable oil2 eggs1 teaspoon cream of tartar1 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon almond extract1 teaspoon baking soda5 cups flour1 tablespoon vanillaMini M&M candies1/2 cup powdered sugar (frosting)2 teaspoons milk (frosting) Directions to make piñata sugar cookies: Cream sugars with butter.
Beat in eggs. Add oil. Split dough into five, even-sized balls and one smaller ball (this will be the black one). Use a container the same approximate width of your donkey/burro piñata cookie cutter, and line it with plastic food wrap. Cover the layered dough and freeze for four hours or overnight. Remove the dough from the container and unwrap from the plastic. Immediately after you take them out of the oven, use your burro piñata cookie cutter to cut the cookie shapes. Create the hidden pocket For the middle cookies in each set, cut off the ears and legs, and cut out the center where the M&Ms will go. Butter Cookies. Chocolate Madeleine Cookies. Sugar Cookie Recipes Recipe Collection. Ideal Sugar Cookies. Sugar Cookie Cut-Outs.
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