Chess Cookies Recipes

SOUTHERN CHESS SQUARES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour a 9x13 inch pan. Mix together the cake mix, melted butter and the egg. Stir in the chopped pecans. Press mixture into the bottom of the prepared pan. Set aside.
• In a large bowl, beat the cream cheese with the confectioners' sugar. Beat in the eggs one at a time until blended.
• Pour cream cheese mixture over crust. Bake in the preheated oven for 45 minutes. Cool in the pan, then cut into squares before serving.

HOMEMADE CHESSMEN COOKIES

Steps:

• In a medium-sized mixing bowl, mix butter and sugar until light and fluffy.
• Mix in egg.
• Mix in milk.
• In a separate bowl, whisk together cornstarch, flour, and salt.
• Add dry ingredients to butter mixture a little bit at a time until it is all added. Keep mixing until the dough comes together and stops looking crumbly.
• Roll out dough to 1/4" thick.
• Use a springerle cookie mold lightly dusted with flour to stamp the cookies with a pattern.
• Cut the cookies out with a knife or a bench scraper and place onto a cookie sheet lined with parchment paper.
• Repeat until all the dough is used.
• Place the cookie sheet in the freezer for at least an hour.
• Preheat oven to 375 F.
• Remove the cookie sheet and use a thick foam brush or simply a thick foam sponge (like you'd get at a makeup supply store) to paint egg yolk onto each cookie's image.
• Bake for 9 minutes or until the egg-washed portions of the cookies are a light caramel color.
• Set cookies out on a cooling rack to cool.

BANANA PUDDING WITH CHESSMEN® COOKIES

Steps:

• Combine milk and pudding mix in a bowl. Whisk for 2 minutes.
• Combine condensed milk and cream cheese in a separate bowl; beat with an electric mixer until smooth. Fold in whipped topping. Slowly fold in pudding mixture.
• Layer 1/2 of the cookies in the bottom of a 9x13-inch pan. Top with 1/2 of the bananas, 1/2 of the pudding mixture, remaining bananas, remaining pudding mixture, and remaining cookies.
• Chill for 2 hours before serving.