One Dough, Fifty Cookies: Baking Favorite And Festive Cookies In A Snap [Hardcover]

Leslie Glover Pendleton (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 21, 1998

Need a last-minute batch of cookies for the holidays? Is the cookie jar running low on favorites? From simple, traditional chocolate chips to elegant Apricot Nut Biscotti, you can have classic and original cookies quickly without starting from scratch every time. Each of the fifty cookies in this book originates from one basic butter dough but tastes and looks completely different.

One Dough, Fifty Cookies features an innovative and imaginative array of cookies including Cappuccino Wafers, Chocolate-Dipped Coconut Sticks, Malted Milk Buttons, Cinnamon Chocolate Moons, and Oatmeal Raisin Ginger Coolnes.

These recipes provide a simple way to bake cookies with no hassle, consistent results, and a variety of shapes and flavors for any and every occasion.

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About the Author

Leslie Glover Pendleton is the author of Simply Shrimp, Salmon, and (Fish) Steaks and One Dough, Fifty Cookies and the recipe developer for six of Gourmet's cookbooks. She was a food editor at Gourmet for eight years, and continues to contribute to numerous food magazines, including Gourmet, Cooking Light, Yankee, Eating Well, and Health. She lives in Hartford, Connecticut.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 112 pages
• Publisher: William Morrow Cookbooks; 1st edition (September 21, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0688154433
• ISBN-13: 978-0688154431
• Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.7 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #412,211 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Not a single failure...and all easy!, November 22, 2001

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feysidhe "feysidhe" (Mount Kisco, NY USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: One Dough, Fifty Cookies: Baking Favorite And Festive Cookies In A Snap (Hardcover)

This little book is worth every penny. Don't judge it by its size (it's tiny), because it really packs a huge number of tasty cookies into one small space! There is one "master" cookie dough recipe to which various things are added to make everything from basic shortbreads to gingerbreads to chocolate chip cookies to thin, espresso-chocolate crisps.

Since each "master dough" recipe makes enough for two full recipes of cookies, making party cookies or cookies for presents is easy. And if you don't want to make so many cookies at once, the dough freezes well so that you can make fresh cookies at the spur of the moment!

I own probably 15 cookbooks for baking desserts, but when I want something fast and delicious, this is the one I go for every time.

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Cookie Monster Says Yum!, June 4, 2000

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William Wagnon (Indianapolis, IN) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: One Dough, Fifty Cookies: Baking Favorite And Festive Cookies In A Snap (Hardcover)

First thing to realize is that all these recipes are really different. This book doesn't cut corners by changing the sprinkles on top. The fifty recipes are all unique and from looking at them, you would never guess they start from the same batch of dough.

However, if you are merely a culinary production tool for cookie-consumer with an appetite of fabled dimensions, well, who cares? All the cookie monster wants to know is, "Is it yummy?"

And the answer is yes. For each and every recipe.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A great holiday time-saver, July 22, 2001

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S. Rauch "paintchipgirl" (Austin, TX USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: One Dough, Fifty Cookies: Baking Favorite And Festive Cookies In A Snap (Hardcover)

I bought this book to prepare a variety of cookies for an annual holiday gathering. Because all the recipes begin with the same dough, I was able to make and bake all the treats in one afternoon and freeze them for the party the following weekend. None of my guests knew that the cookies had such similar beginnings, and everyone raved about them. I'm not sure I will try every recipe in the book, but a few of them are now my "tried-and-true" favorites for cookie swaps and parties.