Cookie Dough Delights: More Than 150 Foolproof Recipes for Cookies, Bars and Other Treats Made with Refrigerated Cookie Dough [Paperback]

Camilla Saulsbury (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 2004

Chocolate chippers, lemon bars, madeleines, brownies, short-bread, thumbprints, rugelach, biscotti, mandelbrot, and fortune cookies - we all love them. We love them even better when they are home-baked. The ultimate comfort food, fresh-baked cookies offer instant reassurance, consolation, and community.

One of the reasons we hesitate to bake cookies is that all too frequently we discover that we don't have all the ingredients we need (or we don't have enough time to bake them from scratch). Cookie Dough Delights conveniently solves both problems. Its easy recipes will tempt everyone back to the oven with an assortment of delectable home-baked cookies (and a smattering of other mouth-watering desserts), all of which begin with an 18-ounce roll of refrigerated cookie dough from the supermarket dairy case.

With little more than a few easy, simple steps, the ordinary can be transformed into the extraordinary. Using refrigerated cookie dough is not about abandoning traditional cookie and dessert recipes; it is a celebration of the options available to bakers today. The ease of working with refrigerated cookie dough also helps bakers of all abilities to focus on the aesthetics of cookies and desserts - including fancy decorations and icings - if they so choose.

Recipes included in Cookie Dough Delights:

• Drop cookies
• Formed and fancy-shaped cookies
• Bar cookies
• Filled cookies
• Special treats
• Icings
• Frostings
• Fillings.. and other extras!
  

Praise for Cookie Dough Delights:

"...a nearly foolproof way to end up with a great dessert for a picnic, barbecue or alfresco dinner party."
New York Daily News

"...as we paged through...we found ourselves first intrigued, then hooked. Many of the recipes are unexpectedly sophisticated..."
Boston Herald

"Cookie Dough Delights will change your outlook...ideal to turn to when you need quick cookies..."
St. Petersburg Times

"...seems like homemade - although it's much less trouble...adults will probably like...these cookies as much as the kids."
St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

Camilla V. Saulsbury is a food writer, food scholar, and recipe developer. She has won numerous national recipe contests, including the grand prize at the National Chicken Cooking Contest and the 2006 Build-a-Better-Burger recipe contest. Her recipes have appeared in Southern Living, Better Homes and Gardens, Vegetarian Times, Cooking Light, Sunset, and other cooking magazines. She lives in Texas.

Product Details

• Paperback: 240 pages
• Publisher: Cumberland House (May 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1581823932
• ISBN-13: 978-1581823936
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 7.1 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (21 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #423,950 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Camilla Saulsbury is a freelance food writer, recipe developer and cooking instructor. Her culinary focus is translating food and flavor trends into fresh, innovative, and delicious recipes for the home kitchen.

Camilla has been involved in the world of food for more than 16 years, including catering specialty desserts in the San Francisco Bay Area, writing cookbooks and freelance food articles, and developing recipes for national food companies. Further, she has won several of the country's top cooking competitions, including the $100,000 National Chicken Cook-Off, the $50,000 Build a Better Burger Contest, and the Food Network's $25,000 Ultimate Recipe Showdown (Cookies Episode).

Camilla's interest in food is also academic. She holds a Ph.D. in sociology from Indiana University with a specialization in food studies, and her doctoral dissertation was a multi-faceted study of the contemporary meanings of home cooking in American culture. Following completion of her Ph.D., Camilla made food writing, food research, and recipe development her primary occupations.

Camilla is the author of ten cookbooks, published by Sourcebooks and Turner Publishing. She is the brand ambassador for Pepperidge Farm® Puff Pastry and has served as a spokesperson and recipe developer for Pillsbury® Brownie Mixes and Cake Mixes. She is also the featured cooking expert for the online magazine GALTime.


Camilla has made multiple appearances on the Food Network, has been featured in the New York Times, made appearances on Today, Good Morning America-Health, BetterTV and QVC, and is a member of the International Association of Culinary Professionals (IACP). Her work has appeared in such magazines as Southern Living, Better Homes and Gardens, Cooking Light, Woman's Day, Woman's World, Cosmo Girl, Quick & Simple, Country Woman, Sunset, Cook's Country, and Vegetarian Times.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

36 of 36 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars All around fabulous, November 18, 2004

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Julia Owens (Louisville, KY) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Cookie Dough Delights: More Than 150 Foolproof Recipes for Cookies, Bars and Other Treats Made with Refrigerated Cookie Dough (Paperback)

Kudos! Great book, especially for the occasional baker. I love love love the lemon ginger gems (soft, you add crystallized ginger 1 package 3-ounce cream cheese, lemon zest to sugar dough). I like more innovative cookeis like that and the coffee toffee bars and pretty much all of the cheesecake creations throughout the book. The rest of the gang in my house can't get enough of some of the simpler ideas (my husband can vouch for the fluffer nutter choc chip cookie sandwiches: peanut butter and marshmallow fluff sandwiched between chocolate chip cookies--so easy and so YUMMY!) and the big cookies you can make and decorate like a pizza--big kid favorite.

Hope there's a follow-up book, becasue I'll get it.

35 of 35 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Love it--Like Cake MIx Doctor but for Cookies!, June 1, 2004

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Dian Franzmann (Salt Lake City, UT) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Cookie Dough Delights: More Than 150 Foolproof Recipes for Cookies, Bars and Other Treats Made with Refrigerated Cookie Dough (Paperback)

I am so thrilled by this book. I love the Cake mix doctor books and 101 things to do with cake mix book, too, but honestly I am more of a cookie baker/eater. I always have at least 1 or 2 tubes of the refrigerated cookie dough in my freezer. Never thought about "doctoring" them before I found this book online. Made the toffee chippers and blackberry cheescake bars for the weekend after receiving the book--absolutley perfect and so easy. I agree with the previous reviewer that this is a great one for kids, too. My son had a great time helping to make the toffee chippers

33 of 33 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great for kids (of all ages), May 30, 2004

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"elschwa32" (Dallas, TX United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Cookie Dough Delights: More Than 150 Foolproof Recipes for Cookies, Bars and Other Treats Made with Refrigerated Cookie Dough (Paperback)

I ordered this a month back when I found it here. Got it last week. Wonderful. Like the CAKE MIX DOCTOR but for cookies.Have already made three recipes including the Red White and Blue Tart and Buttered Rum Raisin Cookies. The Key Lime Cookies are out of control delicious. I like that it is limited to chocolate chip and sugar dough (not the ones that are harder to find like gingerbread and white chocolate)--so you can buy the store brand dough, too. Lots of kid-friendly sounding things, too--my 8 year daughter has already made a "to-do" list of the cookies she wants to bake.