Best Hometown Bakeries in Utica New York from childhood
If you scroll to the bottom of the page you will find the original recipe I got from a friend that had a bakery in Utica. We do love half moon cookies. We love chocolate, vanilla, frosting, jelly topped with coconut, just about any kind at all. In Utica you will find half moon cookies just about everywhere. Hemstroughts, Holland Farms, Star bakery and many other local hometown bakeries
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Cupcake Recipe
2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour (do not sift the flour)
1 1/2 cups granulated sugar
3 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
1 1/4 cups milk
Canola oil
1 stick butter (not margarine), softened
1 tablespoon pure vanilla extract
3 large eggs
Preheat oven to 350°
In a large mixing bowl combine the flour, sugar, baking powder and salt, mixing well. Measure the 1-1/4 cups of milk in a 2 cup glass measuring cup….then add enough oil to bring the liquid up to 1-1/3 cups.
Add the milk/vegetable oil mixture, butter and vanilla to the flour mixture and beat with an electric mixer on medium to medium-high speed for 2 minutes, scraping sides of bowl as needed.
Add the eggs and continue beating an additional 2 minutes. Fill paper lined cupcake tins.
Bake at 350° for 20 to 25 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted near center of cake comes out clean, or until cake springs back when touched lightly in the center.
Cool completely.
Frosting
Cool. Frost half with white frosting and half chocolate frosting .
2 cups powdered sugar
1 teaspoon of vanilla
add milk a tablespoon at a time until desired thickness enough to spread on cookie.
add 2 tablespoon of butter. This is for the vanilla side
Repeat above ingredients for chocolate, but add 1/4 cup dry cocoa powder and mix until smooth and spreadable.
Original Recipe for Half Moon Cookie Utica Style!
These are so happy - want both halves!
ReplyDeleteAren't these cute!
ReplyDeleteThe frosting effect of these cupcakes is very nice. Great idea. Bye, hope you have a good we
ReplyDeleteVery creative frosting!
ReplyDeleteLovely! It reminds me of the Chinese Yin & Yang :) Have a good weekend, Claudia!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful cupcakes, Claudia! I've made black and whites before...and it's hard to get them iced as perfectly as you have :) Brava!
ReplyDeleteAdorable idea!
ReplyDeleteReminds me of Seinfeld ;)
Children love this kind of cookie. This adult loves this kind of cookie. They really looks wonderful. I'd love to have one with my morning coffee. Have a great day. Blessings...Mary
ReplyDeleteThese look like so much fun and really delicious. Yummy! Have a great weekend Claudia.
ReplyDeleteMmm I can see why your kids love these, they look delicious!! :)
ReplyDeleteBlack and white cookies are so good. Black & white cupcakes have got to be out of this world! What a fun and striking idea - its so graphic I love that :)
ReplyDeleteThese look great! My daughter loves the halfmoon cookies and I'm sure she'll love these too. She always has to get one when we go to the Italian bakery near our house! Have a great weekend!
ReplyDeleteThanks a lot! Now I'm gonna have the Holland Farms commercial running through my head for the rest of the day! ;)
ReplyDeleteYour cupcakes look great, bur I've bookmarked the recipe for black and white cookies. I've never found a recipe that is "bakery like." I guess I'd forgotten you're originally from Utica. I used to love the tomato pie that I got there; as a confirmed cheeseaholic, this was very unlike me, but the taste was fabulous.
ReplyDeleteLooks amazing - I'll take both halves!
ReplyDeletethis looks wonderful beautifully done
ReplyDeleteThis look elegant! :)
ReplyDeleteThank you for sharing!
Great idea from cookies to cupcakes! These look tasty and I'll bet they did not last very long. So what's next-perhaps black and white pie? Have a great weekend Claudia-buzz!
ReplyDeleteHappy 4th of July Weekend! OMG YUMM-O, these look so darn good!
ReplyDeleteI'll have a cupcake and a cookie! Please! :)
ReplyDeleteOoh I've always wanted to try these iconic cookies. I love cucapkes, so maybe this will be the push I need. Stumbled :)
ReplyDeleteDefinitely requires talent to ice these so perfectly! Great job GF. Have a happy and safe 4th!
ReplyDeleteI love the cookies so much, but I bet the cupcakes are just as good! Saving these for sure =)
ReplyDeleteI love that you turned one of my favorite cookies into a cupcake! I can't decide which I like better!
ReplyDeleteBlack and white cookies bring back memories!! They are a standard. Blessings, Catherine
ReplyDeleteLove your black and white cupcakes, and especially the cookies, which I have printed out the recipe for.
ReplyDeleteEvery time we go to Publix, my granddaughter Gabby always wants to have her "black and whites"...now I can try to make this for her to surprise her.
Thanks for sharing, Claudia
Happy 4th!!!
Claudia...I love both the cupcakes and the cookies! What a great idea! : )
ReplyDeleteHow clever and delicious! I'd eat all of the chocolate halves! LOL! :-)
ReplyDeleteexcellent sweet recipe and beautiful blog!
ReplyDeleteSuch a cute cupcake. :)
ReplyDeleteOh yum! These look so yummy! By the way, my daughter loves your virtual cat, LOL!
ReplyDeleteHow fun to do this classic as cupcakes, they look delightful :)
ReplyDeleteWhat a great idea - these look and sound just delicious! Cupcakes are such a wonderful dessert all year round, but I especially like them in the summer as they take so little time to cook! Thank you for sharing your half moon cupcakes with Let's Do Brunch.
ReplyDeleteanother recipe on my must-be-done list :)
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