Recipe: Delicious Checkered Cookies

Checkered 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! Cover work surface with plastic wrap. Place two strips of opposing colors next to each other. Use a trick in this recipe to make cookies that resemble a section of a black-and-white checkers or chess board.

Checkerboard cookies look difficult to make, but they're actually pretty easy. 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. You can have Checkered Cookies using 10 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Checkered Cookies

1. It's 270 g of sifted plain flour.
2. Prepare 200 g of caster sugar.
3. Prepare 175 g of melted butter.
4. It's 75 g of milk chocolate chips.
5. It's 75 g of white chocolate chips.
6. You need 40 g of cocoa powder.
7. It's 1 tsp of bsking powder.
8. You need 1 tsp of vanilla extract.
9. You need 1 of egg.
10. Prepare Pinch of salt.

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. These fun checkerboard cookies are easier to make than they look!

Checkered Cookies step by step

1. Make a basic cookie dough base. Mix everything in except the cocoa powder and choc chips..
2. Split the dough in half. In one half mix the milk chocolate chips. In the other half mix the cocoa poder well, then mix in the white chocolate chips..
3. You need to get each half in a square or rectangular shape that is exactly the same size. I used two identical tupperware containers..
4. Pop in the fridge for half hour to harden..
5. Take out the fridge and place on a chopping board. Chop as evenly as possible..
6. Pre heat the oven to 180 fan..
7. Place 4 cubes on a non stick baking tray, with same colour in opposite corners. Smudge the edges together with your fingers..
8. Repeat for all..
9. Place in the oven for 11 minutes..
10. Take out and let cool before eating..

Vanilla and chocolate sable doughs are combined for this holiday cookie. I love the checkers so much that I had to break out the chess pieces for the photo. The dark checkering here is a chocolate espresso dough, and the light is a basic vanilla dough, and. Try these cute checkerboard cookies dipped in white chocolate! But that's still more than enough time to be baking cookies, packaging them up in cute boxes and tins, and passing them on to those favorite people in your life that do so much extra through the year.