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Treasured Christmas Cooky Recipes

Olive Royce

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Old Time Christmas Recipes 5 out of 5 stars.
2 of 8 people found this review helpful.

I think this book is very good for anyone who is looking for great cookie recipes. (...) Keep up the good work.

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Editorial Review:

The majority of the recipes in this cook book originated in Germany and have been in my family for over 100 years. All are tried, tested, and true.

Maida Heatter's Book of Great Cookies

Maida Heatter

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Great cookes - and the recipes work 5 out of 5 stars.
2 of 3 people found this review helpful.

I have never made a recipe from this book that wasn't great and/or didn't work just as advertised. Maida knows how to explain everything you need to know to get it right, and doesn't use exotic ingredients that you won't be able to find in Safeway or your local grocery store.

A pleasure to read and use!

500 Best Cookies, Bars and Squares

Esther Brody

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yummy! 5 out of 5 stars.
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Great selection of recipes. I am an avid cookie baker and this is an excellent cookbook. Truly a great variety of cookies, and every recipe I have tried disappears from the cookie jar quickly.

Editorial Review:

For sweet satisfaction and delight, there is nothing like homemade cookies, brownies, bars or squares. Fun to eat and easy to prepare, they make the perfect portable snack and dessert. 500 Best Cookies, Bars and Squares includes a wide variety of recipes and flavors -- ranging from chocolate-based brownies and fruit bars and squares to an extraordinary range of cookies. The cookie recipes include the classic as well as variations on traditional favorites. Each recipe is easy and delicious. The author also includes her time-tested personal baking tips and techniques. 384 pages, softcover.
Esther Brody has developed thousands of baking recipes over the years in addition to running her own successful muffin business.

1001 Cookie Recipes: The Ultimate A-To-Z Collection of Bars, Drops, Crescents, Snaps, Squares, Biscuits, and Everything That Crumbles

Gregg R. Gillespie

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Quantity, But Not Much Quality 3 out of 5 stars.
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It is very useful to have so many cookie recipes in one book at the same time. Even a very good baking book will have, at most a couple of dozen cookies. On the other hand, the results were rather variable and not totally reliable (one person, one oven, one typewriter, what did you expect?). The experienced baker will have a treasure trove of recipes that require a little fine tuning, while the neophyte will probably be met with more than a few disappointments.

The best part of this book is that each recipe has a picture of the cookie.

The bad part is everything else. The biggest problem is the flour measurement: it only lists cups, but does not list an equivalent weight, nor the method of flour measurement (spoon and sweep, scoop and sweep, etc.). The way flour is measured can mean the difference between a perfect cookie and a hockey puck.

The results were variable: cookies that spread too much, cookies that were dry and crumbly, bar cookies that were either over or under baked, instructions where it is not always clear when something is properly baked, etc.

The biggest problem is also its strongest point: all cookies are arranged alphabetically on the first word of the cookie name. This can be a big problem for, say shortbread. If you look under shortbread, you will find nothing. However it can be found under butterscotch, ginger, peanut butter, almond, Brazil nut, cashew, hazelnut, nut, American, and scotch. Buried at the back of the book where you will never find it, is a cross reference list of all recipes organized by cookie type (bar, drop, formed, nonedible, refrigerator, and rolled). It is here that you will have to do research to find the cookie that you want.

Important note for experienced cookie bakers: this a very handy reference book to keep on your bookshelf. Regardless of what type cookie you want, you will probably find it here. Just keep in mind that the recipes have not been vetted, and you should do a couple of trial runs in order to correct the recipes. If you are a professional doing a catering job that requires you to put out a platter of at least 2 dozen types of cookies, I can think of no better resource than this one.

Editorial Review:

The complete resource for cookie lovers, with recipes for every occasion, from Almond Shortbread and Apple-Coconut Dreams to Oatmeal Crisps and Zwieback with Almonds. 1001 full-color photographs! Each and every cookie is illustrated in full color right alongside the recipe.

Christmas Cookies Cookbook: Collection of Incredibly Edible Cookies Plus Nifty Packaging

Gooseberry Patch

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Great Cookbook! 5 out of 5 stars.
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This is a wonderful cookbook full of cookie recipes, some of which a unique. It also contains little tidbits about Christmas ideas!

Editorial Review:

A collection of cookies, candies, mixes and ideas for the Christmas season.

Alice Medrich's Cookies and Brownies

Alice Medrich

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Editorial Review:

In Alice Medrich's Cookies and Brownies, the goal is perfect results. For Medrich, a playful perfectionist who writes with wit, perfection includes big flavors, "noisy textures" that crunch and crackle, and lots of chocolate. Achieving it requires paying attention to details, such as using unsifted, bleached, all-purpose flour, measured so a cup weighs close to five ounces. Other meticulously detailed advice helps you make evenly baked cookies that are tender and rich, not dry or tough.

There are about 50 recipes in this book. Each is a gem, from the most buttery shortbread (using melted butter is a key) to the most sophisticated, barely sweet chocolate-chunk cookie, truly tangy lemon wafers, and incredibly easy Almond Macaroons. For killer brownies, Medrich offers a new technique she calls the Steve Ritual. Guaranteed to make the outside crustier and the inside creamier, it involves a pan of ice water. Beyond cookie recipes, Medrich includes a doubly peanutty filling for sandwich cookies and a careful guide to chocolate-dipping your favorite cookies and biscotti.

Luscious color photos and enchanting line drawings illustrate this articulate, one-of-a-kind cookie book. --Dana Jacobi

Smart Cookies: 80 Recipes for Heavenly, Healthful Snacking (Jane Kinderlehrer Smart Food Series)

Jane Kinderlehrer

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Editorial Review:

Features easy-to-make treats such as Chewy Apricot-Granola Bars, Date and Sesame Brownies, and Almond Kahlua Squares. Plus a special chapter for those allergic to milk, corn, wheat, eggs, or chocolate. 38 drawings.

Mrs. Fields Best Ever Cookie Book!: 200 Delicious Cookie and Dessert Recipes from the Kitchen of Mrs. Fields

Debbi Fields

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Total reviews: 6 Average rating: 3.5 of 5

Not the Best Ever 3 out of 5 stars.
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Those who are expecting to discover the secret of Mrs. Fields wonderful cookies will be sorely disappointed by this book, as will be others just looking for a good baking book with good cookie recipes. This book is not one of the better cookie books, and I suggest that you avoid it.

There were a few bright spots. Each recipe is generously formatted on one page, so you will not need to break out the reading glasses to read the recipes. Each recipe also comes with a full color picture so you can see what the end result will be, which is a nice editorial decision that I wish more cookbooks would emulate. I also noted that the recipe procedures have all been standardized (virtually all cookie recipes call for ungreased cookie sheets), so that if you can do one cookie, you can do all of them. Interestingly, although I got a couple of really good chocolate chip cookie variations, the non-cookie recipes were actually more interesting than the cookies, viz: White Chocolate Pudding (a new twist on a venerable classic), Rum-Soaked Chocolate Malibu (layered chocolate cake, rum syrup, ganache frosting), White Ivory Cream Cake (white chocolate cake and white chocolate ganache frosting), and Caramel Fudge Mac Tart (pate sucree, ganache, caramel, toasted nuts). Were it not for the paucity of recipe steps, this book would make a fairly interesting chocolate cookbook (tarts, assembled cakes, pudding, ice cream cakes, and candies).

The problems are many:
1) the book title, as only half of the recipes are for cookies
2) there are no basic instructions for beginners (or anyone else, for that matter) on how to actually make and bake cookies
3) the book only refers to "electric mixer", and does not specify hand-held or stand, but one infers from the procedures that the author intends the latter, one picture of a hand held not withstanding.
4) the method of flour measurement is never specified (scoop and sweep, spoon and sweep, etc.). This will significantly alter the cookie texture.
5) it is often difficult to tell if the cookies will be thin and crispy, thick and cakey, toll-house like, etc. You can sometimes tell from the picture, sometimes not, and there are no descriptions of the end cookie result.
6) interestingly, most of the cookies specify an ungreased cookie sheet, but many of them spread considerably in the oven.
7) many of the recipes do not specify how to tell when a cookie is done baking. Some specify and time range only, while others give vague descriptions: "until set", but the author does not tell what this means.
8) the recipes are often lacking in important steps or sufficient information on unusual or difficult steps. For example, the author expects you to already know how to make and fold meringues, and how to use a pastry bag.
9) some recipes are difficult, but the procedures give no warning, and even here the steps are casually tossed off in a few sentences.
10) the introductory information is ambiguous: are you suppose to use a regular cookie sheet, or an insulated one? The end cookie will be dramatically different, depending on which one you use.

Here is the recipe count: drop 50, filled 15, decorated 15, bar 25, non-cookie (pie, cake, pudding, ice cream, candy, etc.) 110.

Farm Journal's Cookies: Homemade Cookies from Countryside America

Food Editors of Farm Journal

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If I only had one cookie cookbook, this would be it! 5 out of 5 stars.
6 of 6 people found this review helpful.

Whenever I'm looking for a cookie recipe, this cookbook is where I start and eventually end! Whether I'm in the mood for bar, drop, or extra special cookies, the sections are set up so I can always find a choice of recipes. I've had this book for years and haven't found a "bad" recipe yet. It's what I give to people for their first cookie cookbook, because the recipes are easy to understand and there's multiple choices, for instance, of kinds of brownies, or oatmeal cookies, or sugar cookies. Storage and shipping tips are included, but good luck keeping the cookies around long enough to do this!

A great cookie recipe book 5 out of 5 stars.
4 of 4 people found this review helpful.

This cookie cook book has a wide variety of cookie & bar flavors, textures & complexity of recipe. The recipies are clear & concise. This is now the only cook book I grab to look for a new recipe to try, or to find a recipe with specific ingredient restrictions. There are basic cookie making tips, as well as suggestions of cookies for specific events (e.g. to mail in care packages, for hostest gifts, etc). A wonderful book.

Editorial Review:

A tummy-tempting collection of classical and original cookie recipes includes eleven brownie varieties, classic chocolate chip, peppermint kisses, teatime currant cookies, potato chip cookies, and raspberry confections.

Cookies: More Than 70 Inspiring Recipes (Conran Kitchen)

Bethany Heald

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Total reviews: 4 Average rating: 3.0 of 5

not what i expected 2 out of 5 stars.
29 of 31 people found this review helpful.

I bought the book based on the cover. I thought I would also get new decorating ideas but I was wrong. The cookie recipes are just ok.

FABULOUS!!!!! 5 out of 5 stars.
4 of 5 people found this review helpful.

I thought cookie decorating was fabulous with some really innovative ideas, I had great fun with the recipes!
I urge everyone to buy this book!!

Editorial Review:

The most difficult thing about making these cookies? Not gobbling them up all at once! Serve them with coffee, put a few in a child’s lunchbox as a surprise, hang them from a Christmas tree, or tuck them into a pretty box as a gift: with these recipes and simple decorating ideas, anyone can bake these tasty and beautiful treats. Many of the recipes are freezer-friendly, all have been tested to assure that they work perfectly every time, and there are even templates for creating cookies in every shape from butterflies to the ever-popular dinosaur. Enjoy decadent nibbles such as bitter chocolate cookies decorated with gold leaf; fun teddy bear cookies; a savory delicacy such as parmesan cookies dusted with cayenne pepper; and a healthy Banana Bran cookie.