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Easy Black and Orange Cookies

Modified: Jul 1, 2024 · Published: Oct 23, 2007 by Anna · This post may contain affiliate links · 6 Comments

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This is an old post with a good recipe for Black and Orange Cookies. They're Halloween themed cookies with orange icing instead of white. I need to update the photo.

Black and Orange Cookies

Old Black and Orange Cookies Post

Yesterday would have been perfect for Halloween. It was cold, dark, and windy until late afternoon when the sun came out and kids walked home from school. It would have been a good evening for trick-or-treating, but Halloween is still a week away. To keep in the Halloween spirit, I tried a recipe for Easy Black and Orange Cookies. These are regular Black and White Cookies cookies with orange icing instead of white. I found the idea in Food & Wine magazine but used a different recipe.

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Recipe

Easy Black and Orange Cookies

Anna
Easy Black and Orange Cookies are Black and White Cookies with orange colored icing. They do not have any orange flavoring.
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Prep Time 20 minutes mins
Cook Time 15 minutes mins
Total Time 35 minutes mins
Course Dessert
Cuisine American
Servings 8 cookies

Ingredients
 

  • ⅓ cup unsalted butter softened (75 grams)
  • ½ cup granulated sugar (100 grams)
  • 1 large egg
  • ½ teaspoon baking soda
  • ½ teaspoon salt
  • ⅓ cup buttermilk or lite sour cream, room temperature (40 grams)
  • ½ teaspoon vanilla
  • 1 ¼ cups all-purpose flour (160 grams)

Icing:

  • 3 cups confectioners' sugar (350 grams)
  • 2 tablespoon light corn syrup (36 grams)
  • 1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice optional
  • ½ teaspoon vanilla
  • 2-4 tablespoons water you might need more
  • ½ cup unsweetened Dutch-process cocoa powder (40 grams)
  • Red & yellow food coloring

Instructions
 

  • Preheat oven to 350°F. Line a large baking sheet with parchment paper or non-stick foil.
  • With an electric mixer or a wire whisk, beat butter and sugar until fluffy. Add egg and beat just until combined. Mix in baking soda and salt, making sure there are no lumps of baking soda. Stir in the buttermilk and vanilla, then add the flour and stir until it is well mixed.
  • Spoon quarter cups of batter about 3 inches apart onto baking sheet. Bake in middle of oven until tops are puffed and pale golden, and cookies spring back when touched, 15 to 17 minutes. Transfer to a cooling rack and cool to room temperature.
  • Icing: Stir together confectioners’ sugar, corn syrup, lemon juice, vanilla, and 2 tablespoons water. Transfer half of icing to another bowl and stir in cocoa, adding more water slowly until you get a nice spreading consistency.
  • Dye the remaining white icing orange, using yellow food coloring a tad of red.
  • Ice the cookies ½ orange and ½ white. Traditional black & whites are iced on the flat side rather than the rounded side, but I iced it on the rounded side.
  • Allow icing to set before serving cookies.
  • Makes about 8 cookies
Keyword Black and Orange Cookies
Tried this recipe?Let us know how it was!

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  1. AJ says

    November 20, 2010 at 6:51 pm

    I really want that orange part to be peanut butter.

  2. Cakespy says

    October 24, 2007 at 8:23 pm

    Love black and whites...so why wouldn't I love orange and blacks?!?

  3. Anna says

    October 23, 2007 at 2:04 pm

    Lisa, the original version used even more lemon. I reduced it slightly and it's not really noticeable. I don't even know why it's there, in fact. Some reviewers said to just leave it out.

    I just had another one of these cookies (Fuzz likes them. Hooray!) and think the cookie part is really good. The icing is just okay, but in my opinion, traditional black & white icing isn't all that great.

  4. Lisa Ernst says

    October 23, 2007 at 2:00 pm

    Anna, I'm curious about the effect of the lemon juice on the chocolate part of the icing. Does the lemon flavor come through? Chocolate and orange is wonderful together; maybe lemon could work too, but I've never tried it.

  5. Anna says

    October 23, 2007 at 10:36 am

    Hi Kelly,

    Thanks for the heads up! I have to go to the store later and will pick up a copy.

  6. Kelly says

    October 23, 2007 at 10:30 am

    Anna,

    You may have already seen it but the Women's Day magazine issue for Nov 1(pumpkin cheesecake on cover) has some great Halloween party ideas(starts on pg 123). I checked their web site and none of the recipes are there! Let me know if you want me to stick it in the mail to you or drop on your doorstep.

    Kelly

Peanut Butter Fudge Jumbles recipe baked in a 9-inch square Pampered Chef stoneware pan.

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