Classic Black and White Cookie vs Kirschmichel (Baked Cherry Pudding)

Both desserts lean on milk, butter, eggs and sugar, but put them to very different work. In the Black and White Cookie, creamed butter and sugar with baking powder and milk bake into a soft, cake-like crumb, while powdered sugar becomes a smooth glaze, half vanilla and half deepened with cocoa. The Kirschmichel instead whisks milk, eggs and melted butter into a cinnamon-scented custard that soaks stale bread, baked in layers around tart sour cherries until golden and set. Here powdered sugar is just a final dusting over a warm, tender pudding.