How to Make Tasty 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. 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.

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 13 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Checkered Cookies

1. Prepare of For vanilla portion:.
2. Prepare 125 gms of flour.
3. Prepare 2-3 drops of Vanilla essence.
4. Prepare 1/2 tsp of Baking powder.
5. You need 50 gms of Butter.
6. It's 100 gm of Sugar powder.
7. Prepare 115 gms of Flour.
8. Prepare of For Brown dough:.
9. It's 10 gms of Cocoa.
10. It's 100 gms of Sugar powder.
11. It's 1/2 tsp of Baking powder.
12. You need 50 gms of Butter.
13. Prepare as needed of Milk to bind.

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

Checkered Cookies instructions

1. This is for Vanilla portion: In a bowl cream together butter + sugar till fluffy..
2. Add all dry ingredients, essence and knead to a crumbly dough.Add some flour if needed..
3. Now make a roll and cover it with cling film and refrigerate for 15-20mins.
4. In a bowl take butter and sugar and beat until fluffy..
5. Put rest ingredients one by one and knead to a dough..
6. Add milk to make a pliable dough.Make a log and same like vanilla dough cover it with cling film and refrigerate 15-20mins..
7. Take out from fridge and shape to a square log.Place on eachother and cut into 3 portions..
8. Now with those place one stripe on eachother with opposite colour on eachother.Press a beat..
9. Now repeat above procedure again..
10. Now your square log is ready to be sliced !! Cut keeping distance and place on baking tray..
11. Heat oven at 170C.
12. Put tray of cookies in oven and bake 15mins.

Checkerboard Cookies: In a bowl whisk the flour with the salt. In the bowl of your electric mixer (or with a hand mixer), beat the butter until creamy. For checkerboard cookies, divide plain and chocolate portions in half. Stack the strips in groups of four, alternating plain and chocolate strips and forming eight separate stacks. Easy German Checkerboard cookies, we call them black & white cookies!