Holiday Traditions: Black and Whites

We spent a long time in the kitchen yesterday starting the holiday baking. John made these, although they are from MY family's holiday tradtion.

 

My mother used to make these when my brothers and I were "small," and then we lost the recipe.

Thanks to Google, you now have many choices of "which" recipe you want to follow, but here's the one that's probably nearest to the one we made as kids: it uses cake flour.