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Blueberry Black and White Cookies

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Blueberry Black and White Cookies

Baked pancakes with two kinds of frosting… that’s basically what I’m asking you to put into your face today.

But first… here are the three questions I have swirling around my brain this afternoon:

–  At what point in the dating process can I start shaving my legs less often?  I’d like to be prepared for that moment… you know, mark my calender.   If I am currently dating you… um… let’s just recognize that this moment is a little awkward.  Yea…

– Is it rude, when at a small dinner party, to eat three times as much as the hostess… then ask for more food?  If so… oops.

– How many of these downright sinful cookies can I eat between lunch and dinner.  Follow up question:  can I call these cookies dinner?

aaaand.  Cookies.

Blueberry Black and White Cookies

Blueberry Black and White Cookies

Is that a bobby pin in the above picture?  Yes.  Geeez!  Where is my good sense?

Blueberry Black and White Cookies

Blueberry Black and White Cookies

I really love Black and White Cookies.  They’re like small cakes with two kinds of sweet frosting… what could go wrong?

I spruced these black and white cookies up with fresh blueberries baked into the cookie and topped them with a blueberry lemon glaze.

Blueberry Black and White Cookies

I also really love smashing blueberries into a purple pulp and making them into a pretty purple glaze.

Blueberry Black and White Cookies

Blueberry Black and White Cookies

Yes I dipped my finger in this glaze.  Yes… more than once.

Blueberry Black and White Cookies

Black and White Cookies get their bottoms frosted.  You all knew that, right?

I have to tell you something… these cookies are best eaten the day they are made.  Why?  Well.. you see how the baked blueberry goodness is peeking through on the bottom of these cookies?  Once frosted and left overnight, the blueberry juice will weep just a bit and make the frosting on top of it look a little sunken.  The taste is still spot on, but the cookies might look a little funny.

Blueberry Black and White Cookies

Chocolate and butter.  It’s meant to be.

Blueberry Black and White Cookies

Frosting these cookies is my favorite part…

Blueberry Black and White Cookies

… because I like to frost the entire cookie with blueberry glaze, let it set for about 30 minutes… then go over half of the cookie with chocolate glaze.  Ridiculous.

Blueberry Black and White Cookies

adapted from The Gourmet Cookbook

makes one dozen large cookies

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For the Cookies:

2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour

1 teaspoon baking soda

1 teaspoon salt

2/3 cup buttermilk

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

2/3 cup unsalted butter, softened

1 cup sugar

2 large eggs

about 1 cup fresh blueberries

In the bowl of a stand mixer, fit with a paddle attachment, cream the butter and sugar until pale and fluffy, about 3 minutes.  Add eggs one at a time, beating on medium speed for one minute after each addition.  Beat in vanilla extract.

Whisk together flour, baking soda and salt.  Add the dry ingredient alternately with the wet ingredients.  Starting and ending with the dry ingredients.  Scrape the bowl down to ensure all the ingredients are thoroughly mixed then beat for just a few seconds on high speed.

Scoop about 1/4-cup scoops of the cookie batter onto a foil lined baking sheet.  Spread the batter slightly with a butterknife.  Cookies should be rounds about 3 or 4 inches across.  Dot each dough circle with 5 or 6 blueberries then use the butterknife so gently, though not completely, brush some batter over the blueberries.  It doesn’t need to be completely covered or perfect.

Bake for about 15 minutes, or until cookies are lightly browned on the bottom and spring back to touch on top.  Let cool on the baking sheet for 10 minutes then remove to a wire rack to cool completely before frosting.

For the Blueberry Glaze:

small handful (about 20) fresh blueberries

juice of half a lemon

2 1/2 cups powdered sugar

a splash of vanilla extract

1 Tablespoon light corn syrup

2-3 teaspoons water

In a medium sized bowl, using a fork, mash the blueberries very well until the pump is pulverized and the blueberries have let off their pretty purple juices.  Add the lemon juice, corn syrup  and vanilla extract and stir.  Pour in the powdered sugar and 2 teaspoons of water.  Whisk until thoroughly combined.  If you’d like to thin the glaze out just a bit more, add just a touch more water.  Set aside until ready to glaze cookies.  If glaze top hardens a bit, just give it a good whisk before applying to the cookies

For the Chocolate Glaze:

4 ounces semi-sweet chocolate chips of pieces

3 Tablespoons butter

1 Tablespoon corn syrup

In a microwave safe bowl, melt the butter and chocolate in the microwave.  I usually microwave this mixture until the butter is somewhat melted, then just stir to melt the chocolate and butter together.  Add the corn syrup.  Stir.  Set the glaze aside until ready to apply to the cookies.

To Glaze the Cookies:

Allow cookies to cook completely.  Use your fingers to brush any extra crumbs off the bottom of the cookies.  Glaze the entire bottom of the cookie with blueberry glaze.  Let set for about 30 minutes.  Once set, gently glaze half of the cookie with chocolate glaze.  Let set for another 30 minutes then wrap individually in plastic wrap.

These cookies are best eaten the day they are made.  Otherwise the baked in blueberries weep through the glaze a bit.  They taste great but might look a little strange.

Blueberry Black and White Cookies

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  2. milacesaretti

    Love Joy the Baker! My daughter and a friend are making these cookies but pointed out that though buttermilk is listed in the cookie dough ingredients, it is never mentioned in the recipe instructions. They just left it out and the batter looks like the photos. Hopefully they’ll be delicious regardless of this mystery ingredient! btw we learned to make our own buttermilk using lemon juice from JTB and it has saved lots of trips to the store.

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  3. Aurora

    JOY I’ve been baking your recipes and yet have neglected to comment:( These honestly were great…but by themselves. Neither the blueberry or the chocolate frostings are needed and they kinda ruined the cookie for me- I used way way less sugar in the blueberry frosting( about 1 c), which made it harder to spread on the cookies and it was still way way too sweet. And the chocolate+ blueberry flavor was unsettling to me and I’m a girl that loves chocolate. I think the best way to make this recipe would be to either omit both frostings all together and up he blueberries in the cookies( I would also add lemon to the cookie batter to make it zing!) or just make a blueberry frosting but make it with cream cheese instead of purely sugar glaze- I think that would be great.

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  6. sheila @ Elements

    hi Joy, I just wanted to tell you that I used your blueberry glaze recipe to make a blueberry cream sauce. I just followed your instructions, added cream and a little dry vanilla pudding powder, and then whipped it until I got a luscious blueberry cream to put on top of my blueberry bread.

    I had a lot of blueberry cream leftover so I just added more berries, put the mixture in a plastic bowl, and then froze it. Your glaze, along with the cream added and whipped, made a wonderful blueberry ice cream! :) Thanks! Have a great weekend, sheila

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  7. Jenny

    Black and blueberry cookies!!

    Okay, I didn’t read through all the comments, but I am making these right now, but can’t find what the oven temp is set at? Did I miss it? Imma guess 375….

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  9. Anna @ Tallgrass Kitchen

    Another use for my bountiful blueberries! I made your blackberry pie bars with blueberries – fantastic! I’ll be posting that recipe in about a week (with a link back to you and the Pastry Queen, of course.)I’m doing a whole blueberry series right now, since I inherited five bushes at my new house.

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  11. iris

    I made these the other day, and posted my results to my blog here.

    The recipe was pretty spot on, although there are some omissions in the recipe above:
    [1] According to Joy’s Classic B&W Cookie recipe, which is pretty much identical, except for the blueberries, you need to “Preheat oven to 350°F.” That’s what I did and the cookies came out perfectly.

    [2] The line “Add the dry ingredient alternately with the wet ingredients” means to alternate between the dry ingredient mixture (flour, salt, etc) and the buttermilk (i.e., the wet ingredients). These should be alternately added to the egg/sugar/butter mixture. The reference to “wet ingredients” is a little ambiguous.

    Aside from that, I would probably add a few more blueberries to the blueberry icing, and maybe say put 6-7 blueberries in each cookie. But I just sorta like blueberries :)

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  12. naanaa

    Yum! I need these. They would go oh so perfectly with my blueberry pomegranate chocolate chunk ice cream….

    Thanks Joy!

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  13. Gabby

    Oooh boy, I actually had dream last night about biting into one of these. And I just woke up hungry. Do you have dreams about dessert too or should I be seeing someone about this?

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  14. Silvia

    Such lovely cookies, I’ll have to wait though, here it’s getting close to 40 C and it’s so humid one can’t breathe properly.
    If the man is right he won’t mind that much about a little bit of hair on your legs, besides a woman who cooks like you is one in a million!

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  18. Haley

    Hmmm the leg shaving dilemma – it’s tough.. you need to balance the seemingly effortless ‘I’m so sexy’ (which I think you have down stubble or not), with the not wanting to set unrealistic precedents. As a lazy shaver I highly recommend moving to Canada, where until things get hot and heavy, you can keep your legs clothed for a good portion of the year.
    As far as out-eating your hostess- your sure ticket to getting invited back.

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  20. Cristy

    Those look amazing! Berries and black and whites- Joy, you know how to win the fans. Any chance we can get a snickerdoodle recipe? Cinnamon, sugar, buttttterrrr…c’mon, it’ll be yummy.

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  24. Vicki b

    Shaving depends on if he worth the sizzle. If I was the hostess that cooked the food, I’d be so glad you liked it enough to want to eat as much as you wanted. What was the third question? These cookies look amazing.

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  25. Becki D

    made these this morning. you weren’t lying – aaaamazing!!! loove the cakey cookie…blueberry n chocolate combo is also fabulous….mmmmmmthanks!

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  27. Katy

    Here’s what you shouldn’t do; NOT shave and put on self-tanner and THEN shave. Single or attached, no one looks good with orange mini-spots all over their legs. Lesson learned.

    Oh, and these cookies would be delish with a side of vanilla ice cream. Then you have dairy and that’s about 3 food groups and that totally suffices for a dinner.

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  30. Hannah

    i would say…you can stop shaving your legs less often…now! you’re a pretty rad lady, i’m sure whoever it is will just take it as pat of your charm.
    xo

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    • Hannah

      sorry i mean START shaving your legs less often…or stop shaving your legs so often…it’s still a little early for double negatives round these parts :)

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  40. Beth

    Oh my, those look delicious! Those are probably the best cookies Ive seen in a while. Im going to try this recipe, I cant wait to taste those cookies!

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  41. Elizabeth

    Glad you didn’t let the Chris comment (which was amazing fodder for the water cooler crowd in my office that love your blog) take away that awesome Joy-esque quality to how you blog, the blog and the new use for the fresh berries I bought today are genius! With the shaving, since it’s summer I’m pretty good about it but once the shorts head back to the closet, when shaving is merely for dresses and that special someone, I’d say once a week is fine, if he complains refer to Rachel@Working Out Wellness

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  42. Bridget Miller

    hahahaha I literally laughed out loud and choked a bit on my water when I read your first question. Not just because its funny, but because that thought entered my mind this morning as I was shaving my legs! again! …ohhh for the 3rd time in the past 4 days… I’m dating someone new…. and hate having to shave all the time. I hope the answer to your question is very soon, but for now Im going to keep them shaven smooth :)

    Your cookies look wonderful :)

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  43. Shari

    No, I had no idea the bottoms got frosted on black and white cookies, or in this case, black and blue. Good to know. As for the leg shaving, It’s from personal experience that I know that if he’s really into you, he couldn’t care less if your legs are shaved or not. : ) Not to say he won’t appreciate a smooth leg now and then, -like maybe on his birthday.

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  44. Bethannw

    These look awesome, but I’m going to consider them black and purple and make them for all the Rockies fans in my life (aka everybody in my life and me too!)

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  50. jaclyn@todayslady

    Never have black and white cookies looked soooooo delicious!!!! I love the twist of adding blueberries. Joy, you are awesome!!!

    p.s. I have no idea about the shaving legs thing….. I too have wondered this. But I feel that with your personality you dont have to worry about it ;)

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  51. Julia

    Right now i´m waiting for my bf coming home to have dinner. a delicious quiche lorraine is waiting to be eaten. but now after i saw your cookies, i want them for dinner. so maybe i will heat the oven to make some for desert. unfortunately i don´t have blueberry.
    I love your recipes and pictures of it.

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  52. Allison

    I made black and white cookies recently and would never have thought of this twist on them. But blueberries totally complements the lemon undertones that are already in these cookies. Great idea!

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  54. Elizabeth

    Personally, I believe you can begin shaving less frequently once your significant other farts in front of you OR wears underwear with holes. Then all bets are off and you are free to be hairy. And eating a ton at a dinner party is a compliment to the chef– as long as you don’t ask to take home the leftovers too.

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  56. Evan B

    Yum! Black and white cookies are some of my faves as well! I never really thought of mixing it up with different flavors- now my mind is going all over the place when I’m supposed to be concentrating on work!

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  57. The Blue-Eyed Bakers

    We LOVE black and white cookies. Black and white cakies really…they are so delicious…and thank goodness every New York deli sells them…we can always get our cakey cookie fix. But now you’re adding blueberries! Yummy! Summer! Will definitely have to try these…

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  58. Carrie

    About the shaving: laser hair removal! I just started this and although it will take a few sessions to be totally hair-free, even after the first session I noticed I only had to shave every few days. I used groupon.com and got a steep discount, so it was totally worth it.

    Thanks for always making me smile with your tmi! I love reading the things you say that we all think! :~)

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  59. Sues

    Oooh blueberries on cookies… Delicious! Ugh, sometimes I hate being a girl… I still shave my legs every day, though I’ve been with my bf for almost 2 years! I think you need to slowly stop and test his reaction :)

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  64. Carly

    Joy – I think these count as health food! There are at least 3-4 blueberries per cookie, so it could definitely be dinner, or breakfast?? They look delicious!

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  67. Wei-Wei

    Uhm, I’ll be really honest here, and say that the reddish combo with the chocolate doesn’t really do it for me. But if I close my eyes and just imagine the taste, it’s perrrrrfect…

    Wei-Wei

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  68. Rachel @ Working Out Wellness

    I think most hostesses would take your greediness at dinner as a sign they “did good” with the food. As far a shaving goes… my rule is always to shave less in the winter, haha. I don’t care about my significant other as far as that’s concerned. When he starts grooming his entire body, I’ll worry about mine.

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  69. Kristan Roland

    Forget calling these cookies dinner–they are breakfast for sure!! But then again, you could eat them for dinner and when people ask what you had for dinner you could say “I had breakfast for dinner” which is basically true.
    Either way, they look yummy and purpley and pretty.

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  73. Rogo

    I only shave if I think I’m getting lucky.

    Cookies can DEFINITELY be dinner. No reason to stuff yourself with extra food you don’t want if you’re going to eat the cookies anyway.

    I don’t know about the third question; it’s something I do myself.

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  75. Trine

    Those look delicious, and in my book, anything can pass for a meal if it fills you and satisfies you. :) We often have pancakes for dinner, on those days when I forget to take something out of the freezer and we haven’t got enough of anything else to make a proper meal.

    As for the shaving… It might be nice with shaved legs for those first “intimate” moments, but honestly, I think I stopped shaving my legs a couple of weeks after meeting my boyfriend. Though we had known each other for a while before we started dating, so he already knew what I looked like unshaven. ;) Unless he’s prissy, I say go for it as soon as you feel comfortable! And if he can’t handle a woman unshaven, well. Then he probably doesn’t deserve those (baked) goods you have.

    (And again, delicious recipe. Must make soon…!)

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  77. Marina

    These sound scrumptious… but could someone in the land of Joy please help me to see the images? I am managing to salivate through mental images only at the moment, would love to see these (or any other receipe for that matter) made step-by-step!

    Re the shaving… I’m for waxing all the way, once every 6 weeks then forget all about it in the meantime:-)

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  80. Jayne

    When to shave a little less often? When the guy thinks your should look like yourself. My hubby refuses to let me shave because he wants me to love myself for who I am… though… ummm, I shave when I wear stuff that exposes a bit of leg. So yeah… but you know, if you don’t wanna shave, no man can force you to.

    heheh… and cookies for dessert. I’m gonna be making brownies for supper. Any difference?

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  81. michelle

    even with all these little tmi tidbits joy, you’re still like the classiest person ever.

    and i always take the advice of classy people, fancy neenish tarts, here i come!

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