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...

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

These half moon cookies are pillowy soft cookies with half chocolate half vanilla icing which creates this iconic New York cookie!

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

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

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

These Vanilla Half Moon cookies are dome-shaped with a cake-like texture. One side is frosted with a sweet vanilla frosting and the other half is chocolate.

I love the idea of serving up nostalgic beloved local foods at the holidays, so I am going to do my best to help you get Half Moon Cookies delivered right to your doorstep.

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.)

Hemstrought's famous for the “original Halfmoon Cookie” has not changed the recipe since 1920. Cookies are baked from scratch daily with all natural ingredients and hand frosted with chocolate fudge and vanilla buttercream. Many "black and white" cookie renditions are out there, but none compare to the original.