<Tr> <Th> Main ingredients </Th> <Td> Shortbread, fondant </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="2"> Cookbook: Black - and - white cookie Media: Black - and - white cookie </Td> </Tr> <P> A black - and - white cookie, or half - and - half cookie, is a soft, sponge - cake - like shortbread which is iced on one half with vanilla fondant and on the other half by chocolate fondant created in the Bavarian region of Germany . </P> <P> Notably, this style of cookie is often seen as a particularly "New York" snack coming out of "Kleindeutschland," i.e., Little Germany, a German immigrant neighborhood situated in the Lower East Side of Manhattan . </P>

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