Checkerboard Cookies with step-by-step pictures

Enjoyable and straightforward Checkerboard Cookies that are a fantastic addition to any Christmas Cookie Field! Recipe with step-by-step pictures.

Checkerboard Cookies

These Checkerboard Cookies could be my favorite cookie to make and bake at Christmas. And when you, like me, wish to bake a wide range of cookies at Christmas, whether or not in your personal consumption or to present away as items, I discover Checkerboard Cookies are at all times so stunning and visually interesting alongside different conventional Christmas biscuits. Folks at all times marvel at how these cookies are made, and regardless of there being a little bit of geometry concerned, these cookies are slightly straightforward to make! In actual fact, if I could make them, anybody can 😉

Christmas Cookie Change

If you happen to take part in a Christmas Cookie Change, otherwise you merely wish to bake a wide range of cookies to present at Christmas, these Checkerboard Cookies are a enjoyable inclusion.

Checkerboard Cookies Recipe

My recipe for Checkerboard Cookies makes use of the identical cookie dough as for my French Sablé Cookies. Which is useful as a result of, when you plan to make just a few forms of cookies at Christmas, you should utilize this one recipe to supply a number of forms of cookies.

French Sablé Cookies are buttery French-style biscuits, just like English shortbread. My recipe for French Sablé Cookies consists of variations for Vanilla Sablé, Chocolate Sablé, Matcha Sablé and Black Sesame Sablé.

For a enjoyable variation, these Checkerboard Cookies mix two totally different flavours (you’ll be able to add extra) in a visually-appealing sample.

The best way to Make Checkerboard Cookies

My recipe for Checkerboard Cookies is a straightforward one which produces a 4 x 4 cm cookie with 4 squares that includes 2 flavours. To make cookies with extra squares – and extra flavours – you will want to do a little bit of maths and produce sufficient logs of every flavour to create the sample you need. Every phase must be the identical measurement, and the cookie itself must be a sq. or rectangle form. However I’ll shortly submit my recipe for spherical checkerboard cookies!

Step 1

Cream the butter, salt and sugar till the combination is gentle and fluffy.

Step 2

Add the egg yolks, and proceed mixing till all the pieces is effectively mixed.

Step 3

Divide the butter combination into 2 mixing bowls. To do that evenly, weigh the total combination in a clear bowl, after which divide this quantity by 2.

To make the Vanilla Cookie Dough, place half of the butter combination right into a mixing bowl, and add the dry elements. Combine till all the pieces is mixed and the combination resembles crumbly moist sand. Add sufficient chilly water till the combination comes collectively in a gentle dough.

Step 4

Switch the dough to the kitchen bench and knead gently to supply a gentle dough with no air pockets. Form the dough into two logs measuring 4 cm in width, 2 cm in peak, and 16-18 cm in size.

Wrap the dough tightly in plastic wrap, smoothing and levelling the perimeters as you accomplish that. Place the dough within the fridge for Half-hour, or within the freezer for quarter-hour, to relax. Alternatively, you’ll be able to freeze the dough at this stage to make use of at a later time.

Step 5 & 6

Repeat Steps 3 and 4 to make the Chocolate Cookie Dough. I like to recommend beginning with vanilla so that you simply don’t want to scrub the bowl 😉

Step 7

As soon as the cookie dough logs are chilled, use a pointy knife to chop them in half lengthwise. Every log ought to now be 2 cm x 2 cm in width and peak.

If you wish to be very exact, you’ll be able to clear or trim the perimeters with a pointy knife so that every log is precisely the identical. However remember the fact that, because the cookies bake, they may broaden barely and will not preserve their form completely.

Step 8

Brush some egg white onto one facet of a Vanilla Cookie Dough log to “glue” it to a Chocolate Cookie Dough log. Repeat with the opposite two cookie dough logs.

Brush one of many vanilla-chocolate logs with egg white, after which place the opposite vanilla-chocolate go online prime in order that the colors are alternating. Wrap the whole log tightly in some plastic wrap, and place within the fridge for Half-hour or the freezer for quarter-hour to agency up. At this stage, you’ll be able to preserve the cookie dough within the freezer for as much as 1-2 months.

Step 9

To make evenly-sized cookies, use a ruler to mark the dough in 1 cm increments, or nevertheless skinny or thick you wish to make the cookies. Alternatively, it’s also possible to eyeball the measurements.

Use a pointy knife to slice the cookie dough. Prepare the sliced cookie dough on a big baking tray lined with baking paper.

At this stage, it’s also possible to clear or appropriate the perimeters with a pointy knife. I like my cookies to have a do-it-yourself look, so I don’t hassle an excessive amount of with actual edges.

In case your kitchen is heat, it could be a good suggestion to pop the baking tray into the fridge for 15-Half-hour for the dough to relax once more.

Step 10

Preheat the oven to 180°C/356°F (with out fan). Place a steel tray on the center shelf of the oven.

Place the baking tray on the pre-heated steel tray within the oven, and bake the cookies for 15-18 minutes, or till the cookies are frivolously golden. The baking time will differ relying on the dimensions and thickness of your cookies, in addition to your oven.

Take away the baking tray from the oven, and go away the cookies on the recent tray for an extra 5-10 minutes to agency up. Cool the cookies on a wire rack.

Suggestions for Making Checkerboard Cookies

• Use a ruler. If precision is vital to you, you’ll want to measure your cookie dough logs so that every phase is similar measurement. I like to recommend conserving a steel ruler within the kitchen in your baking actions.
• Use levelling strips. Much like a ruler, levelling strips lets you roll the dough evenly. They arrive in a wide range of sizes, and can be found in acrylic or wooden.
• Appropriate with a pointy knife. If, after you’ve sliced your cookies, you wish to “fine-tune” the measurements, merely use a pointy knife to even or clear the perimeters of every cookie. Needless to say the dough will broaden barely throughout baking, and the cookie form might transfer a bit. However as these are do-it-yourself cookies, I feel some imperfect edges are greater than high-quality ☺️

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Checkerboard Cookies

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• Creator: Thanh | Eat, Little Chook
• Prep Time: 30 minutes
• Cook dinner Time: 15 minutes
• Complete Time: 45 minutes
• Yield: Makes about 30 cookies
• Class: Cookies
• Technique: Oven
• Delicacies: French

Enjoyable and straightforward Checkerboard Cookies that are a fantastic addition to any Christmas Cookie Field! Recipe with step-by-step pictures.

Components

For the Cookie Dough Base

For the Vanilla Cookie Dough

For the Chocolate Cookie Dough

Directions

To Make the Cookie Dough Base

1. Place the butter, salt and icing sugar (powdered sugar) into a big bowl.
2. Cream the elements collectively till the combination is gentle and fluffy. If you’re utilizing an electrical stand mixer, use the flat-paddle attachment.
3. Add the egg yolks.
4. Beat to mix effectively.
5. Weigh the combination in a clear bowl.
6. Halve the combination into separate mixing bowls.

To Make the Vanilla Cookie Dough

1. Place one half of the Cookie Dough Base into the blending bowl.
2. Add the extra elements for Vanilla Cookie Dough.
3. Beat the combination collectively till the combination resembles moist sand.
4. Add simply sufficient water to deliver the combination collectively right into a gentle dough.
5. Take away the combination to the kitchen bench.
6. Knead the dough frivolously in order that all the elements are well-combined and there aren’t any air-pockets within the dough.
7. Form the dough into 2 logs, measuring 4 cm in width, 2 cm in peak, 16-18 cm in size.
8. Wrap every log in plastic wrap.
9. Place the dough within the fridge for Half-hour, or within the freezer for quarter-hour, to agency up.

To Make the Chocolate Cookie Dough

1. Repeat the identical steps as for the Vanilla Cookie Dough.

To Form the Checkerboard Cookies

1. Unwrap the cookie dough logs from the plastic.
2. Slice every log in half lengthwise, so that you’ve got 4 logs of every flavour, that are 2 cm in width.
3. Take one vanilla log.
4. Brush every vanilla log with some egg white.
5. Place a chocolate go online prime of every vanilla log.
6. Brush one pair of the vanilla-chocolate logs with egg white.
7. Place the opposite vanilla-chocolate go online prime, in order that the colors are alternating.
8. Wrap the checkerboard cookie dough in plastic wrap.
9. Place the dough within the fridge for Half-hour, or within the freezer for quarter-hour, to agency up.

To Slice the Checkerboard Cookies

1. If you would like even-sized cookies, use a ruler to mark the width of every cookie (about 1 cm thick). In any other case, you’ll be able to eye-ball it and lower as you please.
2. Use a pointy knife to slice the cookie dough.
3. Place a sheet of baking paper on a big baking tray.
4. Prepare the cookie slices on the baking tray. The cookies don’t unfold very a lot upon baking, however area them aside to permit them to bake evenly.

To Bake the Checkerboard Cookies

1. Preheat the oven to 180°C/356°F (with out fan).
2. Preheat a steel tray on the center shelf within the oven.
3. Place the tray of cookies on the preheated steel tray.
4. Bake the cookies for 15-18 minutes, or till the cookies are frivolously golden. 
5. Take away the tray from the oven.
6. Depart the cookies on the recent tray for about 5-10 minutes to agency up.
7. Take away the cookies to a wire rack to chill fully.

Kitchen Notes

OVEN TEMPERATURES
All recipes on this web site state temperatures for a daily oven (i.e. a traditional oven with out fan). If in case you have a convection oven with a fan, please seek the advice of the producer’s handbook on tips on how to regulate the temperature and baking time accordingly.

CONVERSIONS
To transform from cups to grams, and vice-versa, please see this useful Conversion Chart for Fundamental Components.