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Betty Crocker's Cookie Book

Betty Crocker Editors

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Total reviews: 8 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

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Everybody Loves Cookies!

Crispy, chewy, crunchy or chocolaty, cookies are always a favorite. This cookie book is filled to the brim with scrumptious recipes, from sweet treats to delight your family to dainty, delicious bites perfect for sharing with friends. You'll find plenty of great new recipes and ideas, plus the most sought-after, tried-and-true classics to satisfy any cookie craving. Packed with gorgeous photos so you can see exactly what you're making, it's the only cookie book you'll ever need! You'll find the best cookies for:
* Chocoholic Choices _ Triple Chocolate Brownies, Fudgy Layer Squares, Outrageous Double Chocolate -- White Chocolate Chunk Cookies
* Holiday Supreme -- Magic Window Cookies, Gingerbread Village, Snowflakes
* Elegant Occasions -- Brandy Snap Cups, Lemon Tea Biscuits, Cappuccino-Pistachio Shortbread
* Cookie Jar Classics -- Toasted Oatmeal Cookies, Deluxe Chocolate Chip Cookies, Soft Molasses Cookies
* Kid's Ultimate -- Peanut Butter Swirl Brownies, Cookie Pizza, Dream Bars

Big Fat Cookies

Elinor Klivans

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Total reviews: 23 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

For the cookie monster in all of us! 5 out of 5 stars.
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by Judy Bart Kancigor, author of Cooking Jewish: 532 Great Recipes from the Rabinowitz Family

From The Orange County Register
February 10, 2005

Go ahead. See if you can say "big fat cookie" and not smile. I dare you.

I asked Elinor Klivans, noted Maine pastry chef and author of "Big Fat Cookies" (Chronicle Books) how she got the idea for her beautifully photographed, irresistibly cookie-licious cookbook.

"I was working on my last book ("Fearless Baking") and someone asked, "What do you think you want to do for your next book?" and without thinking about it, `big fat cookies' came out of my mouth, and I thought, yes, that's the one I should do."

With Valentine's Day only a kiss away, what could be better than giving some big fat cookies to the one you love, but try to choose just one recipe from this stunning, new book. I double dare you.

If chocolate be the food of love, bake on. For the Chocolate Chip-Stuffed Cookies, two mammoth chocolate chip cookies are stuffed with even more chips for a "now, why didn't I think of that?" chocoholic's dream. And how does Klivans produce a cookie firm enough to stand up to this chocolate overload? "I use all brown sugar rather than the usual granulated and brown sugar combination, plus cold eggs and only slightly softened butter, rather than the usual room temperature," she revealed.

Not enough chocolate for you? Try the Chocolate Chip Whoppers, Chocolate Chunk Mountains or my personal favorites, Big City (read New Yawk, of cawse) Black and Whites.

Were you the kid that loved to make mud pies? Then the Chocolate-Covered Chocolate Chip Cookies" (aka "Mud Balls") are for you. "You bake these wonderful chocolate chip cookies, and when they're just cool enough to handle but still quite warm, you squish them into balls and refrigerate them," Klivans explained. "Then for the shiny chocolate coating, instead of tempering the chocolate, which is really tricky to do, you just melt chocolate with a little oil and dip the cookie balls in that mixture and refrigerate until firm. They look like giant truffles. For parties I even cut them into quarters."

Oh, did I mention - these are really big cookies! "Most of the cookies call for 1/4 cup of batter each," she noted. "I like to use an ice cream scoop. Then the cookies are all uniform and you just go down the line."

Because of their size, these cookies need to be baked longer, so most call for a lower temperature than you may be used to. "Cookies are a quick-baking item, and there's only a short interval between a perfectly baked cookie and an overbaked one," she cautioned. "And because of their high sugar content, they burn easily, so check the bottoms with a spatula to be sure they're not getting too dark Better to risk breaking one up than to ruin the whole batch. You can always eat that broken cookie!"

Why not bake some Heart-Shaped Butter Shortbread cookies for your Valentine. "These are sturdy cookies that hold their shape," said Klivans. "Cornstarch, unlike flour, contains no gluten and makes for a more tender cookie. As an option, add a teeny drop of red food coloring to a little of the glaze to turn it pink. Then drizzle the pink glaze over the white for a marbleized effect. I don't like to fuss with decorations for hours. These are so easy and really pretty too."

Editorial Review:

Nobody's ever made baking history with a scrawny cookie. No matter what the occasion, nothing beats the big, fat, homemade kind. With this deliciously fun cookbook and a few simple ingredients, anyone can whip up a quick batch of one of 50 different gigantic crispy, chewy, or fancy-pants sandwich cookies. From classic Super Chocolate Chip to colossal Mocha Mud Mountains, Jumbo Coconut Macaroons to Lemon Whoopie Pies, this is total cookie satisfaction. Introductory material includes tips on buying the best ingredients, techniques such as mixing and forming the perfect round, baking ahead and storing, and for those who actually like to share their cookies how to pack them up safely so they won't break on the way to the party. So, get that sweet tooth ready and bite into a Big Fat Cookie.

Christmas Cookies from the Whimsical Bakehouse

Liv Hansen, Kaye Hansen

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Come holiday time, there’s no better way to celebrate than by baking up some special cookies. In Christmas Cookies from the Whimsical Bakehouse, mother-daughter bakers Kaye and Liv Hansen share their most enchanting cookies, from simple to showstoppingly beautiful. These irresistibly pretty cookies are perfect for snacking and gifting, decorating the tree, and, of course, leaving for Santa.

And they are definitely not your grandmother’s cookies! With both classic and creative flavor combinations and adorable designs, the Hansens’ cookies have been pleasing loyal customers at their cozy upstate New York bakery for years. Now they bring their customers’ favorite recipes home to you. Kaye handles the baking, imbuing the cookies with the traditional flavors of Christmas, like cinnamon, ginger, and vanilla, but also more modern touches like coconut, chocolate, and pistachio. Her daughter, Liv, provides the artistic flair, using innovative techniques and plenty of colored (yes, colored!) chocolate to yield truly special cookie creations that look as good as they taste.

All of the Hansens’ best cookie creations are here, from simple roll-and-slice cookies to bars and cutouts, including Coconut Dreams, Chocolate Pecan Rounds, and Creamy Christmas Butter Cookies, as well as step-by-step instructions for making truly impressive decorations. Imagine a dazzling 3-D Christmas cookie tree decked with silver dragées, or a breathtaking gingerbread house. From chewy Apricot-Chocolate Triangles to tangy Lemon Drop Cookies, Christmas Cookies from the Whimsical Bakehouse is a fanciful, fabulous take on everyone’s favorite holiday treat.

Sweet Dreams of Gingerbread

Jann Johnson

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From The Inside Flap: 5 out of 5 stars.
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Jan Johnson works magic with gingerbread.....and now you can too! SWEET DREAMS OF GINGERBREAD will show you how to create 40 eye-catching, taste-tempting gingerbread delights.

You'll find imaginative ways to "dress up" old-fashioned gingerbread boys and girls in sweet winter togs or scumptious fancy dress for extra-special party cookies. And you'll discover that gingerbread cookies come in all shapes and sizes: charming musical instruments, an adorable teddy bear family, spunky cowboys and Indians, and a fairytale prince and princess.

Jann's three-dimensional projects are real show-stoppers - imagine the glorious Royal Castle as the centerpiece at a youngster's birthday party. The classic House is perfect for any occasion, and for variations on the theme there's a miniature Swiss Chalet dripping with snowy white icing and Shaker Saltbox house decorated with pilgrim and pumplin cookies for Thanksgiving.

Gingerbread may become a family tradition at Christmastime, once the candy-covered Gumdrop Express stops at your home on Christmas morning. Make the fabulous three-dimensional Rocking Horse or Christmas Tree centerpiece to decorate your table, and choose from sixteen whimsical cookie designs to decorate your tree.

But there's no need to save gingerbread just for Christmas. Jan had designed projects for Easter, Halloween, and Valentine's Day and plenty more that are suitable for birthday parties, baby showers, or delicious after-school treats.

Every project is photographed in color to show you just how it should look when it's complete. Plenty of full-size patterns make cookie-cutting a breeze, and Jann's illustrations help you through the tricky techniques. Just follow the easy-to-understand instructions and before long you'll be decorating like a pro and creating your own sweet dreams of gingerbread.

Biscotti & Other Low Fat Cookies: 65 Tempting Recipes for Biscotti, Meringues, and Other Low-Fat Delights

Maria Polushkin

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Editorial Review:

Low in fat and calories, crunchy, satisfying biscotti are the perfect cookie for today's "light" way of eating. Whether you dunk them in a steaming cup of coffee in a crowded cafe, savor them with wine by firelight, or relax in the afternoon with a plateful and a mug of hot tea, you'll want this outstanding collection of tempting delights.

Biscotti are easy to make, and Maria Robbins has developed more than 50 biscotti recipes that feature only the most tantalizing flavor combinations. Besides biscotti, this book also features an array of addictive meringue cookies that have no fat and fewer calories (only 15 to 20 calories per cookie), and a handful of savory low-fat cookies that contain no sugar. These soft, chewy mouthfuls will complement any cookie tray full of biscotti.

Recipes include:

-Double chocolate almond biscotti
-Ginger raisin biscotti
-Oatmeal caraway biscotti
-Espresso biscotti
-Pignoli biscotti
-Spicy currant biscotti
-Orange poppy-seed biscotti
-Crispy gingersnaps
-Lime meringue kisses
-Citrus-glazed lebkuchen
-And more.

Rosie's Bakery Chocolate-Packed Jam-Filled Butter-Rich No-Holds-Barred Cookie Book

Judy Rosenberg, Sara Love

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Total reviews: 14 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Such a great compliment to Rosie's baking book! 5 out of 5 stars.
4 of 5 people found this review helpful.

I enjoy this book as much as I do the baking book. I have never had a cookbook with so many 5* recipes. The recipe people request the most is the Baker's Best Snickerdoodles. Unbeatable.

Quantity over quality . . . 3 out of 5 stars.
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I'll give her credit, Rosie has a large selection of recipes to choose from, but the basic layout of this cookbook is not ideal, and her measurements are a bit freaky. You'll see 1 cup + 6 tablespoons of flour(isn't that a third of a cup?) Or 12 tablespoons of butter, or 6 tablespoons of milk . . . Again, couldn't that be converted to something more mainstream, like liquid ounces? And the recipes are frequently not all on one page, so you get to flip back and forth from the ingredients to the directions. Her writing is very chatty and comforting, but the recipies I've tried (and there have been several) have only been OK - not memorable.

Editorial Review:

Celebrating rich, buttery, over-the-top treats, award-winning baker and author Judy Rosenberg shares 150 inspired but easy-to-make cookie recipes that never stint on the good stuff. Think chocolate chips and chocolate chunks, mounds of jam and heaps of nuts, the butter crunch of real shortbread and the tender chew of a gooey bar.

Cookies and milk will never taste the same again. Among the old favorites and new classics: Noah's Chocolate Chocolatey Chocolate Chips, Hazelnut Crisps, Banana-Nut Chocolate Chunks, Almond Biscotti (low-fat, but don't tell anyone), Coconut Dainties, Pucker-Your-Lips Apricot Linzer Bars, and adorable little custard-filled Boston Cream Pies.

76,000 copies in print.

Recipe of the Week: Ice Cream: 52 Easy Recipes for Year-Round Frozen Treats (Recipe of the Week)

Sally Sampson

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Mouth-watering color photography illustrates this treasure for ice cream lovers everywhere 5 out of 5 stars.
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Recipe of the Week: Ice Cream is a welcome addition to culinary writer Sally Sampson's "Recipe of the Week" series, featuring fifty-two tasty recipes for fans of frozen delights. From Banana Sorbet (the perfect dish for using up overripe bananas), to Fresh Fig Gelato with Orange and Cinnamon, to Sour Cream Brown Sugar Ice Cream and much more, Recipe of the Week: Ice Cream offers a broad assortment of classic flavors as well as unique original delights. Mouth-watering color photography illustrates this treasure for ice cream lovers everywhere, highly recommended.

Editorial Review:

A fabulous frozen treat for every week of the year

If you're looking for new ice cream flavor sensations, this cookbook is just what you need. It gives you a year's worth of delectably different recipes for your ice cream maker--from Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Ice Cream to Green Tea Gelato. Whether you want a delicious dessert for your family or an elegant ending for a dinner party, this full-color book is chock-full of great ice cream ideas--everything you need to unleash your ice cream creativity and put a smile on everyone's face!

Cookies 'n' Quilts: Recipes & Patterns for America's Ultimate Comforts

Judy Martin

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Total reviews: 6 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Love it! 5 out of 5 stars.
15 of 15 people found this review helpful.

I am a beginning quilter, and this book has projects that I can do easily, plus others that will challenge my abilities, but also teach me new skills (such as set-in seams). I also appreciate how Judy Martin gives yardage in length and in fat quarters.
I am ordering a muffin top pan soon so that I can make many of the cookie recipes (lots of butter in these recipes, but yummy!)

Editorial Review:

Cookies 'n' Quilts features 8 original and complete quilt patterns plus brand-new recipes for 10 of the most temptingly decadent cookies and bars you have ever tasted.

The quilts involve the idea of superimposing one pattern over another. One quilt incorporates Maple Leaves into a Log Cabin block. Another strews flowers over an Irish Chain. Yet another builds a Virginia Reel from logs. And there are 3 star-within-a-star patterns.

The chocolate chip cookie recipe tries to answer the question of how many chips and how much butter can be packed into one cookie. The answer is apparently more than you ever thought possible! Among the cookies are an oatmeal spice cookie with cinnamon chips and a peanut butter cookie with chocolate and peanut butter chips. The bars are all different flavored brownie-like confections on a shortbread base.

Every quilt pattern includes color diagrams, rotary cutting instructions, and full-size templates. The recipes are thorough and easy to follow.

Southern Living Best Loved Cookies: 50 Melt-in-Your-Mouth Southern Morsels

Southern Living Magazine

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The South's passion for home-baked cookies runs deep, so it's no small mission to present the ultimate Southern cookie collection. But no one knows cookies better than Southern Living magazine's editors and Test Kitchens professionals. They enthusiastically rose to the challenge of hand picking 50 top-rated, tried-and-true, uniquely Southern cookies from over 2,500 recipes. Now you can bring these sweet tastes of the South to your kitchen, no matter where you live!

The inimitable Southern Living perspective distinguishes this cookies cookbook from all the rest. Rich layers of regional distinction add to the simple joy of cooking cookies. From teacakes and molasses crinkles, the colonial housewife's pride and joy, to Kentucky Bourbon Balls, the holiday baker's spicy, spiked surprise, discover the South's very special take on Best Loved Cookies.

Home bakers will joy in rich concoctions such as nutty Mississippi Mud Cookies with a toasted marshmallow topping, a modern twist on a Southern classic. With such delicacies as the pecan-laden Crispy Praline Cookies, an homage to the tasty candy cooked up daily along New Orleans' French Quarter, every tasty bite will inspire delight in a delicious culinary heritage.

This must-have collection of America's favorite homemade cookies features something for everyone in the country. Chapters are organized by Easy Drop Cookies, Shaped Cookies, Rolled and Cut Cookies, and Bodacious Bar Cookies. Plus, the Top 10 Cookie Tips assure perfect results every time.

A Baker's Field Guide to Christmas Cookies

Dede Wilson

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Very good reference for all the standards. Recommended 5 out of 5 stars.
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This `A Baker's Field Guide to Christmas Cookies' by Dede Wilson is a perfect example of how the same subject can be served well in two very different ways. The obvious touchstone against which to proof this volume may be Rose Levy Beranbaum's book on Christmas cookies. But, this would be an unfair comparison. Beranbaum's work covers the very high end of Cookie making, ending with a truly glorious creation of a gingerbread cathedral of Notre Dame. Beranbaum also covers just about every little issue you may possibly encounter in baking cookies and provides us with lots of unusual recipes.

Dede Wilson, on the other hand, has given us a very practical kitchen reference for lots and lots of common cookie recipes baked for Christmas, including several ethnic favorites such as the relatively difficult Moravian Ginger Cookies.

My favorite thing about Ms. Wilson's contribution aside from its spiral binding which lays flat on the table is the fact that you often have more than one recipe for a particular type of cookie. For a rolled gingerbread / spice cookie recipe, there are at least three alternatives, not even including the difficult Moravian cookie. That generally means that if you want to make a particular kind of cookie, you have your choice between an easy, intermediate, and hard recipe.

Other very nice features are the fact that every recipe falls on two facing pages, begins with a very clear picture of one or two of the cookies, states the type and (very cute here) habitat, gives a description of the cookie and alternatives, gives the shelf life under proper storage conditions, and gives appropriate tips on making this and similar cookies. I think the recipes are well written and leave little room for error, although I was just a bit confused by the instructions to form rolled gingerbread dough into a disk. This sounded more like instructions for a freezer cookie than a rolled cookie.

The introductory material to the book gives nothing near the detail of Beranbaum, but gives enough to avoid any egregious errors. It also does not give lessons on using piping bags and other decorating techniques, but none of the cookies require elaborate methods.

The book does include an appendix on sources, most of that are probably familiar to regular bakers such as King Arthur, KitchenAid, and Wilton. Several are unfamiliar and welcome to me, especially New York Cake and Baking Distributors and The House on the Hill.

If I were the author, I may have included a bibliography of major works on cookies such as by Malgieri, Heatter, and Beranbaum, especially for help on decorating, but the book does a pretty good job of standing on its own as a great reference for common cookie recipes. It really fits its `Field Guide' metaphor well.

Editorial Review:

A fun, original new take on a classic subject, this book is a collection of classic Christmas cookies from all over the world, set up in a field guide format.