Vanilla and Chocolate Checkerboard Cookies. Checkerboard Cookies are buttery, whimsical butter cookies that are perfect for when you can't decide if you want a chocolate or vanilla cookie! This is an easy cookie recipe that looks impressive, but is simple and fun to make! The dark checkering here is a chocolate espresso dough, and the light is a basic vanilla dough, and I really love eating the two together like this. And just so you know, these whimsical cookies are soft, buttery, and crumbly, so if your crispy tooth is having a craving, it'll have to wait for another day. Brush some reserved egg whites on both sides of chocolate strip.
Some weeks back I made a variety of cookies for Vacation Bible School.
I know it has been a while but I did not want you to miss these egg free vanilla and chocolate flavored Checkerboard Cookies.
I am excited to show you a new method of forming the checkerboard suggested by August, a fan of Roti n Rice.
You can cook Vanilla and Chocolate Checkerboard Cookies using 11 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you achieve it.
Ingredients of Vanilla and Chocolate Checkerboard Cookies
- Prepare of Ingredients.
- Prepare of Vanilla Dough.
- It's 1 stick of unsalted butter (softened) (½ cup/113g).
- It's 1/3 cup of sugar (75g).
- It's 2 tsp of vanilla extract.
- Prepare 1 1/4 cups of all-purpose flour (190g).
- Prepare of Chocolate Dough.
- Prepare 1 stick of unsalted butter (softened) (½ cup/113g).
- You need 1/3 cup of sugar (75g).
- You need 2 tbsp of cocoa powder.
- Prepare 1 1/4 cups of all-purpose flour (190g).
Vanilla and chocolate cookies with step wise pictorial and video method. WHY THESE COOKIES NAMED CHECKERBOARD ? A checkerboard is a board of chequered pattern on which draughts is played. It consists of squares of alternating dark and light color.
Vanilla and Chocolate Checkerboard Cookies step by step
- For vanilla dough, cream butter and sugar together in a large bowl until well blended, about 2 minutes. Beat in vanilla extract. Gradually mix in flour on low speed..
- Knead dough to bring it together. Turn dough onto a clean working surface. Shape into a rectangle. Wrap with plastic and chill for about 30 minutes..
- For chocolate dough, cream butter and sugar together in a large bowl until well blended, about 2 minutes. Beat in cocoa powder. Gradually mix in flour on low speed..
- Knead dough to bring it together. Turn dough onto a clean working surface. Shape into a rectangle. Wrap with plastic and chill for about 30 minutes..
- Prepare 4 sheets of parchment or wax paper. Draw a 7-inch x 7-inch square in the middle of 2 of the 4 sheets of parchment or wax paper. When both types of dough are chilled, remove from refrigerator. Place a sheet of the parchment paper with the drawn side of the 7-in x 7-in square facing down on your work surface. Unwrap dough and place in the middle of the 7-in x 7-inch square. Then place another sheet of parchment paper (not drawn) on the top of dough..
- Roll out dough to the outline of the 7-in x 7-in square. Use a knife or spatula to push dough into the square so as to minimize wastage. Trim dough if necessary. Remove the top parchment paper and cut dough into three slabs of equal width.
- Do the same for the other flavor of dough..
- Place three slabs of dough, alternating vanilla and chocolate dough one on top of the other. Gently press the slabs together. Cut each slab lengthwise into 3 strips of equal width. Rearrange the strips of dough to create 2 slabs forming 9 small rectangles cross-wise..
- Wrap each slab with plastic and refrigerate for another 30 minutes. Preheat oven to 350°F (180°C). Remove dough from refrigerator. Unwrap the dough and slice each log into ¼ inch thick slices cross-wise..
- Place onto non-stick baking sheet and bake for about 12 minutes per batch..
- Remove and let cookies cool for 5 minutes before transferring onto a wire rack to cool completely..
Cover work surface with plastic wrap. Besides being a great looking cookie, I love how Checkerboard Cookies give you both a chocolate and a vanilla cookie in one. Start with one batch of vanilla cookie dough, add chocolate to half of it, form four long, square logs, layer the dough into a checkerboard pattern, and slice. These not-too-sweet cookies will be right at home on a holiday cookie plate, at a bake sale, or shipped in a care package. Eggless Checkerboard Cookies with goodness of vanilla and chocolate.