Preheat oven to 350°. Sift together flour, baking powder, and baking soda in a medium bowl and set aside. Put sugar, butter, cocoa and salt in bowl of mixer and beat on...

The vanilla version of Utica's famous half moon cookies, from local corporate culture expert and motivational speaker Yvonne Conte.

The real, authentic Central New York Half Moon Cookie Recipe is located here, with a lovely story from back in the day...

This recipe for half moon cookies comes straight from one of my favorite bakeries growing up! They are easy, fun to make and SO SO SO GOOD!!

Crescent Cookiess are a decadent, melt-in-your-mouth sugar cookie perfect for gifting or making for Christmas cookie exchanges. (Whether you call them Italian or Viennese - they are delicious either way.)

These recipes for half-moons are my childhood favorite cookies. The cookie is soft and sweet with chocolate and vanilla icing on top.

New York Black and White Cookies are large, dramatic cake-like cookies covered in both vanilla and chocolate fondants.

These remind me of an open face whoopie pie but actually they are known as halfmoons or black & white cookies depending on which part ...

Classic Chocolate Half Moon Cookies are tender chocolate cake-like cookies. Iced with chocolate frosting and vanilla frosting.

Classic, easy NYC black and white cookies recipe, homemade with simple ingredients. Soft, moist cake like cookies with vanilla and chocolate icing.