Cookies! Good Housekeeping Favorite Recipes (Favorite Good Housekeeping Recipes) [Hardcover]

Joanne Lamb Hayes (Author), From the Editors of Good Housekeeping (Author)

Book Description

Series: Favorite Good Housekeeping Recipes | Publication Date: April 28, 2004

Simply the best cookie recipes ever—all triple-tested.

Thanks to Good Housekeeping, the cookie jar will never be empty again. With these simple and satisfying recipes, even new bakers will make perfect cookies the first and every time. All the cookies were developed in the famous Good Housekeeping kitchens. Some recipes came from the staff, and others from the magazine’s readers, but each one is triple-tested and tasty. All the ingredients of success are here: how to measure properly, select the right cookie sheets, time your recipes, and use specialized gadgets. Whip up some warm kitchen memories with irresistible Butterscotch Fingers, baked with pecans to accentuate the richness; giant Black-and-White Cookies; and holiday treats such as Christmas Rocks with candied fruit and Hamantaschen pastries for Purim.

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Editorial Reviews

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Including recipes from readers and staffers, this collection runs the gamut from familiar Snickerdoodles and Coconut Macaroons to more unusual Sour-Cream Nut Rolls and McIntosh-Oatmeal Cookies. Though the book is aimed at bakers of all levels, advice such as "don't use coffee or tea cups, or tableware teaspoons and tablespoons for measuring" suggests it's best suited to newbies. Illustrated sidebars on how to line a pan with foil (often used in making brownies), produce a marbled effect with two different-colored batters, flatten stiff cookie dough and shape fortune cookies enhance the book, and for each recipe the editors give prep time, bake time, yield and nutritional information. Beginners will want to stick with truly undemanding bar cookies, such as Chocolate-Swirl Peanut Butter Blondies or Cherry-Cheesecake Triangles, or try instant-gratification drop cookies, like Chocolate-Chunk Cookies or Oatmeal Cookies. More experienced cookie-makers will find plenty of ideas in the section on the more challenging but lovely-to-look-at rolled cookies, where they'll find recipes for Linzer Cookies, Rugelach and other works of art. A later chapter focuses on pressed, molded and refrigerator cookies (e.g., Ladyfingers, Madeleines, Pignoli Cookies). The final section, on holiday cookies, is the book's weakest. Although the recipes sound alluring, they're unorganized and often don't seem to correspond to any specific holiday (e.g., it's unclear why Nut Crescents and Hazelnut Cookies are in this section, when the editors don't link them to a holiday). But that's a mere quibble; the rest of this book brims with homey suggestions for delicious desserts.
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Product Details

• Hardcover: 256 pages
• Publisher: Hearst; Spi edition (April 28, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1588162761
• ISBN-13: 978-1588162762
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 7.1 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,858,073 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great For Beginners, December 6, 2005

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This review is from: Cookies! Good Housekeeping Favorite Recipes (Favorite Good Housekeeping Recipes) (Hardcover)

I am a seasoned baker and find this book to be a decent book to have on the shelf, especially if one is new to baking. If you are not new to baking, some of the tips and suggestions are a little obvious.

Healthy recipes for those whom are carefully watching their diet and details such as calories, protein, carbohydrate, total and saturated fat, colesterol and sodium are listed, for every recipe.

The spiral bound book sits nicely on the counter, front and back covers clean easily and there are lots of fun, some healthy and traditional recipes and tips sprinkled throughout the pages in between.

If your are a new or an experienced baker, you will find many MANY recipes for bar, drop, rolled, pressed, molded and refrigerator cookies are well written and easy to follow and there are many colorful photographs to see most of the finished recipes.