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Chocolate Half Moon Cookies
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This week's Dessert is brought to us by Susan McNeil.  She has shared her recipe for Chocolate Half Moon Cookies.   These goodies are similar to the traditional Black and White Cookies but with extra chocolate and brown sugar.  Perfect for the chocolate lover and Valentine's Day! Thanks for the terrific recipe Susan : )!

Here's a little more about Susan:

I have been married for 27 years and have 3 grown children.   I enjoy cooking and baking basic recipes .  I really enjoy sharing them with people and am always glad to help anyone who is looking for a particular recipe.  My mother collected many interesting newspaper recipes from upstate New York and I have saved them. I am Italian and Slovak and my husband is Irish.  I enjoy cooking Italian food and really enjoy baking Italian cookies.

Chocolate Half Moon Cookies

• Two cups brown sugar
• One cup margarine
• Two eggs
• One teaspoon vanilla
• Three cups flour
• One teaspoon baking soda
• Pinch of salt
• Four ounces baking chocolate
• One cup milk

What you do:

1. Cream brown sugar and margarine together.  Beat in eggs and chocolate (2 ounces which has been melted).  Add milk alternately with flour, soda and salt.  Stir in vanilla.
2. Drop by heaping tablespoons onto lightly greased cookie sheet., spreading batter slightly. Bake in 350 degree oven 10 minutes.
3. Cool and frost flat side of cookies.  Combine four cups sifted  confectioners sugar with one-half cup margarine, add one teaspoon  vanilla and enough milk to make of spreading consistency.  Frost half of  cookies with white frosting.  Add two squares melted chocolate to  remaining frosting and frost other half of cookies with chocolate  frosting.

Comments:

Can't find good half moon cookies in Philly!
From: Heather Bernhardt
Thank you for the half-moon recipe!!!!!!!!!!!!!
My husband and I both grew up in upstate NY. I was disappointed when I recently tried to order half-moon cookies at a local Philadelphia suburb (where we've lived for years now) bakery to surprise my husband on his birthday. The workers seemed to have no idea what I was talking about, until one of the bakers said "Oh, you mean 'black and whites'." I was happy at the time, thinking that the regional name for the cookies must have been something different than we'd called them in upstate NY. So, I ordered a dozen.

However, when I came to pick them up the next day, I was disappointed to find that the "black and whites" the baker had made were round, hard vanilla cookies with thin, shellac-like half black/half white icing on the top. My husband and I both agreed that the half-moon cookie we remembered from childhood was a cakier chocolate cookie with a thicker, softer half black/half white icing on top.

We enjoyed the black and whites, but they sure didn't feed our nostalgia for half-moon cookies. It was at this time that I first realized that the half-moon cookies we'd taken for granted as kids must have been a regional thing. Thanks so much for publishing the recipe!!!

Black & White Cookie
As a native New Yorker and as a young girl living in New York, I would use my newspaper route money to buy one of these delicious cookies from my local bakery. Back then I didn't care how they were made as long as I had my black and white cookie every week. I hope you enjoy them as much as I do !

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