RECIPE: Make Hemstrought’s Bakery Halfmoon Cookies at Home

Hemstrought's Bakery is renown for its halfmoon cookies. In fact, the bakery invented the halfmoon.

Obviously, it's best to go to Hemstrought's and a buy a fresh-out-of-the-oven cookie from the bakery itself.

But if you can't, Hemstrought shared the recipe with Savuer Magazine in March, 1999. The magazine then published the recipe for all to see.

FOR THE COOKIES:
3 3/4 cups flour
3/4 tsp. baking powder
2 tsp. baking soda
2 1/4 cup sugar
16 tbsp. margarine, cut into pieces
3/4 cup cocoa, sifted
1/4 tsp. salt
2 eggs
1 tsp. vanilla extract
1 1/2 cups milk

FOR THE FUDGE ICING:
3 1/2 oz. bittersweet chocolate
3 1/2 oz. semisweet chocolate
1 tbsp. butter
4 1/3 cups confectioners' sugar, sifted
2 tbsp. corn syrup
1 tsp. vanilla extract
Pinch salt

FOR THE BUTTERCREAM ICING:
7 cups confectioners' sugar
16 tbsp. room temperature butter, cut into pieces
1/2 cup vegetable shortening
7 tbsp. milk
1 tbsp. vanilla extract
Pinch salt