Thanksgiving Cupcakes: (Macy's Parade) Black and White Cookie Cupcakes

I made black and white cookies in honor of the upcoming Macy's parade in New York City.  Like I said yesterday, my Thanksgiving has always begun watching the Macy's parade, eating breakfast, and smelling the turkey baking.  Watching the parade as a child, made me crave a visit to NY City, and visiting once made me crave another, and so on...and so forth.  I understand (clearly) NY City has a clear personality outside of Thanksgiving and the parade...and this cookie, but Thanksgiving will always remind me of NY City, and New York City always reminds me of B&W cookies, pizza, and pastrami sandwiches.   This week in Hoosier's cupcake contest...Thanksgiving cupcakes is the theme...and, well, this is it for me.  I could have made turkey legs, pie cupcakes, or turkeys faces, but...my mind likes to wander off on tangents.  Thanksgiving=Pilgrims, Turkey, and NY City's parade.   I figured it would be safest to make B&W cupcakes to represent the parade's route, though a littlerye pastrami filled cupcake, or a float cupcake could always make it's way to my blog someday.  One of my friends (originally from NY, who told me about her love of B&W cookies) has a fall birthday, and I decided to make her a box of B&W  cookies, and B& W cupcakes in honor of this treat she missed.  I blogged my cookie recipe yesterday.  I even made some baby cookies for her baby girl, and then I boxed 'em up, added some news paper decoration things....I don't know why....newspaper print screams NY too, I need to get out more. 

As far as the cupcakes go....I just used a yellow cupcake mix.  I added 1 t. of lemon to the batter for an 'authetic' black and white cookie flavor.  I'm not huge on lemon flavor, but you can certainly add more.  I used the same icing recipe, and process I used for icing these cupcakes (posted yesterday). 

I let 'em dry, boxed 'em up, and made a native New Yorker a little less....or more...homesick for a moment. 

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Hoosier Homemade