Looks Good: Red Velvet Black and White Cookies

Courtesy of Joy the Baker.

Black and Whites are said to be the cookies of New York City. They make me retch. But Joy The Baker's recipe with red velvet might just change my distaste to utter satisfaction.

Ingredients

Coookie/Cake:

1 1/4 cup all-purpose flour
1 Tablespoon cocoa powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
5 Tablespoons butter, at room temperature
3/4 cup sugar
1 egg
1 Tablespoon red food coloring
1 teaspoon vanilla
1/2 cup buttermilk

Vanilla Glaze:
2 cups powdered sugar
1 Teaspoon light corn syrup
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract

Chocolate Glaze:
4 ounces semi-sweet chocolate
3 Tablespoons butter
1 Tablespoon light corn syrup

In an unflattering report about a local bakery, John Del Signore of Gothamist wrote, "When any decent baker should have been selling racially harmonious black and white cookies [a la Seinfeld] by the truckload, one Greenwich Village bakery outraged neighbors by selling a 'Drunken Negro Face' cookie in 'honor' of President Obama." At first, Ted Kefalinos, proprietor of Lafayette French Pastry, insisted that the inauguration cookie was "a fun face." But last week he apologized for the awful creation saying, "Seriously, from the bottom of my heart, it was an innocent design I created. It was nothing more than just a piece of art." You be the judge.