Here in WNY, our Half Moon cookies look like the above. Most places make a chocolate or a yellow vanilla cake cookie. They are as big as the palm of your hand and have buttercream frosting on top.
NYC's black and whites have a shortbread cookie, not a cake cookie and are smaller. Ours were started in Utica, NY in 1925. Most people here in Rochester like Wegmans' Half Moons better-- I think it's the frosting, not sure!
You can get a recipe here: In a Pinch Recipes. (for the Chocolate kind). Well, this was off topic but maybe Kelly's will start selling Half Moons some day!!
I grew up eating B & W cookies in NYC, and it seems all the stores have them here in the DC area in some form or another. Just ate one as a matter of fact!
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Now we we all want to eat one! Thanks for the clarification, Karen. In NYC, in the bakeries, the Black & Whites are giant, then they sell them in supermarkets in boxes, those are smaller.
ReplyDeleteAntJoan, those are the ones I remember well! I also miss the Chinese cookies-do you know what those are?
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Linda, not sure what those are . . . Do you mean fortune cookies, or something else?
ReplyDeleteThey were big round cookies, sort of like a shortbread, with a small chocolate circle in the middle.
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Linda,
ReplyDeleteYou might be thinking of almond cookies. Some Chinese places make them with a chocolate center
Dar, these cookies had nothing to do with Chinese and I don't know why they were called that. They were a sort of dry cookie about three inches in diameter and had a small circle of chocolate icing on top. They were sold in bakeries. Maybe I am really dating myself and it was so long ago only I remember, LOL.
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Thanks for clearing that up Karen. Yeah, I've never had/seen them before. I'll have to keep an eye out for them now, and give them a shot, if I can find them anywhere! Though, I'd definitely like them better were they all vanilla. For some reason, I've just never really been a chocolate person. A few pieces of candy every once in awhile, pretty much fills my quota.
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