Black-and-White Cookies

Name: Black-and-White Cookies
Yield: makes 12
Ingredients: 1 1/4 cups white or brown rice flour; 1/2 cup Bob’s Red Mill All-Purpose Gluten-Free Baking Flour; 1/3 cup vegan sugar; 1/2 cup arrowroot; 1 1/2 teaspoons xanthan gum; 1 teaspoon baking soda; 1 teaspoon salt; 3/4 cup melted refined coconut oil or canola oil; 1/3 cup plus 2 tablespoons unsweetened applesauce; 1/3 cup agave nectar; 2 tablespoons vanilla extract; Vanilla Sugar Glaze (page 127); Sugar-Sweetened Chocolate Dipping Sauce (page 123)

December 9, 2011

For the longest time, I might have been the only person in the tristate area completely oblivious to the beautiful oversize black-and-white cookies found in every bodega from Brooklyn to the Bronx. Have you had one? Me, I was never allowed because of my food sensitivities, of course. So when I went to the kitchen and started brainstorming ideas for iconic cookies, this was one of the first ones I tackled. Prepare to be bathed in the sweet comfort of vanilla-chocolate overload.

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