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The Good Cookie: Over 250 Delicious Recipes from Simple to Sublime [Hardcover]

Tish Boyle (Author)
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September 18, 2002
A delicious collection of cookie recipes of all kinds—now in paperback

Here's the book that no self-respecting cookie lover can resist. The Good Cookie shares a fresh and tantalizing selection of more than 250 recipes from around the globe—complete with expert instructions on how to bake them. From rugged Cranberry Orange Nut Bars and irresistible Bittersweet Chocolate Biscotti to sophisticated Chocolate-Filled Almond Hearts, you'll find recipes of every type and stripe.

The book features basic drop cookies, beautiful hand-formed cookies, delectable sandwich cookies, complex decorator cookies, and more. Plus, there's plenty of interesting and fun information on the cookie's history, technique, ingredients, and other tidbits of information.

  • Combines a treasure-trove of classic and contemporary cookie recipes with expert baking advice in one handy volume
  • Written by the food editor and test kitchen director of Chocolatier and Pastry Art & Design magazines
  • Offers definitive advice on freezing, storing, packaging, and shipping cookies

For home bakers who love to bake cookies, whether they're novice bakers or experienced kitchen hands, The Good Cookie is an irresistibly delicious resource.


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There are thousands of cookie recipes out there already, and probably hundreds of cookie recipe books. What makes The Good Cookie different, and worth making room for, is Tish Boyle. Food editor of the magazines Chocolatier and Pastry Art & Design, Boyle uses her experience as a pastry chef to update, improve, and choose between all those thousands of recipes for classic and best-loved cookies. She also includes recipes contributed by other excellent pastry chefs she's met, and for the remainder she relies on her own creative genius.

With over 250 recipes to choose from, Boyle makes the task much easier with mouth-watering introductions that describe in detail the appearance, texture, and taste of every cookie. The chapters are organized by technique, but the recipes are reorganized in an ingenious index by occasion or use: Ship Well, For Grown-Ups, Over-the-Top Chocolate, Bake Sale Bonanza, and the like. You'll find favorites such as Russian Tea Cakes, Lattice-Topped Linzer Bars, and Hermits, and crowd pleasers like Citrus Sandwiches and Blueberry Crumble Bars. Contributions from others include Chocolate Cranberry Spice Cookies, Ginger Fortune Cookies, and Midnight Brownies (made with Midnight Milky Way bars!). But what makes The Good Cookie priceless are the gems such as the crispy, chewy Tangerine Kumquat Rounds, explosive with citrus flavor, and Boyle's clear, detailed instructions that ensure their success. --Leora Y. Bloom

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Boyle, food editor of Chocolatier and Pastry Art & Design magazines, presents more than 250 cookie recipes to satisfy every palate and skill level. Recipes are arranged by type of cookie, including drop, rolled, bar, refrigerator, filled, and decorator, as well as savory cookies and crackers. Readers will relish old favorites like lusty lemon bars and Russian tea cakes, but the strength of this title lies in the author's own imaginative and tempting recipes for orange cream bars, coconut custard squares, raspberry-filled shortbread fingers, monster fudge nut brownies, and other delectables. Recipes are well laid out, instructions are easy to follow, and the color photographs are an inspiration. Baking tips, sources for equipment, storing and shipping guidelines, and a "bite-sized history of the cookie" are informative and will be of particular interest to novices. The "Cookies for Every Occasion" index lists appropriate recipes for everything from "Quick and Easy" to "Bake Sale" to "Over-the-Top Chocolate." Recommended for most cookery collections.
Pauline Baughman, Multnomah Cty. Lib., Portland, OR
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Product Details

  • Hardcover: 400 pages
  • Publisher: Wiley; 1 edition (September 18, 2002)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0471387916
  • ISBN-13: 978-0471387916
  • Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 7.5 x 1.2 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 2.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (27 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #455,007 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Tish Boyle is a graduate of La Varenne École de Cuisine in Paris and has been in the food business for over 20 years. She is currently the editor of Dessert Professional magazine (formerly Chocolatier magazine), a bi-monthly publication for the pastry and dessert industry. Tish was previously an editor at Good Housekeeping magazine and has worked as a recipe developer for many large food corporations and national magazines. She is the author of Diner Desserts (Chronicle Books, 2000), The Good Cookie (John Wiley, 2002) and The Cake Book (John Wiley, 2006), and the co-author of five other cookbooks. Visit her website at www.tishboyle.com and her blog at www.tishboyle.blogspot.com.

 

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19 of 19 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars The Best Cookies ever!, August 3, 2005
This review is from: The Good Cookie: Over 250 Delicious Recipes from Simple to Sublime (Hardcover)
The Good Cookie is the best cookbook I own because every recipe I have tried has been fantastic! (I agree with another reviewer - the chocolate chip cookie recipe is the best ever; I just made another batch today). There is a marvellously wide range of types (bar, refrigerator, decorator, drop, cut-out, etc) and flavors. And there are even cookies from around the world, from fortune cookies to hamentaschen to biscotti (several flavors) to ANZAC cookies to various British cookies. The recipe layout is visually pleasing and easy to follow. There are several pages of color photos to get your saliva glands and desire to bake really going. And every cookie I have tried has been perfectly delectable. I really love this cookbook and couldn't give it enough praise. Comprehensive, easy to use, nice to look at, and delicious. It is the best cookbook I've ever bought!
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17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars You Only Need One Good Cookie, February 10, 2003
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Maida Heatter, a long-trusted name in baking, said "Happiness is baking cookies -- especially when they are as delicious as all these are." I cannot agree with her more. Because of time constraints, I tend toward the easier recipes in this book, and there are so many to choose from. My pregnant cousin does not allow me to visit her anymore without Tish's Chocolate Chunk Cookies; my children finish a dish before I can even get to them. For fans of wonderfully rich, chocolate-y cookies, make sure you try this recipe first! For a great after school treat, be sure to try the Classic Vanilla Sugar Cookies. You can taste each of the simple ingredients that is part of this recipe, and your children will gladly help you sprinkle the coarse sugar. There are many, many more recipes to try, and they range from simple to sophisticated and sweet to savory. In the end, one needs only one good cookie. But it is nice to know that, with this book, you will have many more favorites from which to choose!
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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Simply Delicious!, October 20, 2002
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I love to bake. I am so glad that I ordered this cookbook! I have made the white chocolate key lime bars and the peanut butter cookies. The bars were delicious and everyone told me that the peanut butter cookies were the best they had ever had. I brought some to work and people said "I can't believe you made these, these are something you get at a really good bakery or deli". I can't wait to bake my way through this book. Thank you Trish!
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Baking cookies is much more of a pleasure when you have all the right equipment at hand, and it's all top quality. Read the first page
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small offset metal spatula, clean parchment paper, repeat with the remaining cookies, small sealable plastic bag, large pastry bag fitted, bake the bars, process until the almonds, sweet pastry crust, nonalkalized cocoa powder, parchment paper cone, process until the nuts, plain pastry tip, upper oven rack, baking sheets halfway, bake the tuiles, paddle attachment, sprinkle with coarse sugar, peanut butter morsels, parchment cone, sanding sugar, miniature muffin pans, round paintbrush, flatten the logs, dough log, cut into tablespoons
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Cookie Bite, Granny Smith, Lisa Yockelson, New England, The Baker's Catalogue, Valentine's Day
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