Black And Cookies

Total Time: 40 mins Preparation Time: 30 mins Cook Time: 10 mins

Ingredients

• 9 ounces flour
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 5 1/2 ounces sugar
• 1/3 ounce vanillin sugar (1 packet oetker vanillin sugar)
• 1/8 ounce rum flavoring (1 bottle of oetker rum flavour)
• 1 egg
• 4 1/2 ounces butter or 4 1/2 ounces margarine
• 2 tablespoons cocoa
• 1 tablespoon sugar
• 1 tablespoon milk
• egg whites or water

Recipe

• 1 pastry:.
• 2 mix the flour and baking powder and sieve onto a pastry board.
• 3 make a well in the centre and pour in the sugar, vanillin sugar, flavourings and egg.
• 4 draw in some flour from the sides of the well and mix together to form a thickish paste.
• 5 cut the cold butter or margarine into small pieces and add it to the mixture in the centre.
• 6 cover this mixture with more flour.
• 7 starting from the middle work all the ingredients quickly with your hands into a firm, smooth paste.
• 8 if the mixture is sticky, refrigerate until firm.
• 9 cut the pastry into two halves.
• 10 combine the cocoa, sugar and milk.
• 11 add to one of the pastry halves and knead until blended.
• 12 pinwheel pattern:.
• 13 roll out 2 same-sized rectangulars, one light pastry and 1 dark pastry.
• 14 brush 1 layer with egg .
• 15 place 2nd layer on top.
• 16 brush this layer with egg .
• 17 roll up like a swiss roll.
• 18 chequered pattern:.
• 19 roll out light pastry into a rectangle (3/8 inch or 1 cm thick).
• 20 cut into 5 strips of 3/8 inch or 1 cm thickness.
• 21 roll our the dark pastry to the same size and thickness and cut into 4- 3/8 inch or 1 cm wide strips and the same length as the light pastry.
• 22 brush them with egg and arrange the strips of pastry in 3 layers of 3 strips each layer with the colours alternating.
• 23 wrap the whole in a thin layer of pastry.
• 24 easy pattern:.
• 25 using half of pastry, form a roll about 1 1/4 inch or 3 cm in diameter.
• 26 brush with egg .
• 27 roll our the other half into an oblong and wrap around the roll.
• 28 refrigerate the rolls until the are stiff.
• 29 cut into same sized slices of about 1/4 inch thickness.
• 30 preheat oven to 350°f.
• 31 bake on a greased cookie sheet for 10 to 15 minutes.