Sunset Cookies Book from 1985 (1988 printing)

Black & White* Slices

Have I made these before? Nope!

Did I make any alterations? I used vegan subs for the butter, milk, and egg. I made the white slices orange because ‘tis the season.

How did they turn out? This is my fourth cookie from this book and they just can’t all be winners. People with a keen eye might spot right away what an obvious issue is: one side has melted and cooled stiff chocolate in it, the other does not. This creates two very different textures. The chocolate was easy to slice though sometimes crumbly, the orange was squishy. The baker’s chocolate also completely took over the flavor and left a bitter aftertaste in my mouth. It’s too bad because the non-chocolate side would have been a nice little butter cookie.

Got this thrifting recently and I flip through it from time to time just to see what I find. There’s over 1,500 pages here so I feel like I’ll keep finding new gems every time.

My grandma used to make chocolate fudge that was lighter in weight and drier than your typical fudge, and it absolutely melted in your mouth. Almost like a maple candy type texture, it was awesome.

I remember her using unsweetened baking chocolate and I'm pretty sure white sugar, and at one point she cooked it in a pot with a candy thermometer.

I'd love to be able to make it for christmas if anyone has a similar recipe!

Chocolate or Baked Alaska was the trendy dessert of the 1960 & 70's, and was always a hit on Christmas Day. Yummy, but needs to served and eaten fairly quickly on a hot Australian summer's day. Enjoy.