Pillsbury: Best Cookies Cookbook: Favorite Recipes from America's Most-Trusted Kitchens [Hardcover]

Pillsbury Company (Author)

Book Description

Series: Pillsbury | Publication Date: September 23, 1997

The third title in the successful Pillsbury cookbook series features 175 of Pillsbury's best-ever recipes for cookies, bars, and brownies. Each recipe is accompanied by helpful sidebars such as Kitchen Tips, Make It Special, Recipe Variations, and Ingredient Information, and by bullets denoting recipes as Editor's Favorites or Quick Bets. 60 color photos.

Editorial Reviews

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A Recipe from Pillsbury: Best Cookies Cookbook

Easy Cherry Rum Balls
Prep time:  20 minutes

2 cups crushed vanilla wafers (40 to 45 wafers)
1 cup powdered sugar
1/2 cup finely chopped candied red and/or green cherries
1/2 cup finely chopped pecans or walnuts
1/4 cup rum
3 tablespoons corn syrup
2 tablespoons butter melted
1/4 cup powdered sugar

In a medium bowl, combine vanilla wafers, 1 cup powdered sugar, cherries and pecans; mix well.  Add rum, corn syrup and butter; mix well.
Shape mixture into 1-inch balls; roll in _ cup powdered sugar.  Cover tightly.  Let stand 24 hours to blend flavors.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 256 pages
• Publisher: Clarkson Potter; 1st edition (September 23, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0609600842
• ISBN-13: 978-0609600849
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 7.8 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #237,605 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #85 in Books > Cookbooks, Food & Wine > Baking > Cookies

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

39 of 40 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Yummy collection of easy to follow recipes, July 7, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Pillsbury: Best Cookies Cookbook: Favorite Recipes from America's Most-Trusted Kitchens (Hardcover)

This is one of the finest cookbooks I've ever seen for cookies. The collection is divided into drop, hand-formed, refrigerator, rolled, bars/brownies, holiday and Bake-Off favorite cookies. With an introductory section on "cookie know-how" and margin hints, tips, and information, this collection is not only informative, but a pleasure to thumb through. Most recipes have variations listed immediately after, so if you don't care for ingredients in the basic recipe you are given several suggestions how to tailor it to your liking. Many color photos, easy to follow ingredient lists, numbered steps and nutritional breakdown round out the detail given in this book. A must for any cookie baker.

12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of the best cookie books I own (and I am a cookie junkie, February 21, 2004

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Matiqua "matiqua" - See all my reviews

This review is from: Pillsbury: Best Cookies Cookbook: Favorite Recipes from America's Most-Trusted Kitchens (Hardcover)

I'm so glad I found this book! Every recipe I tried so far has been spectacular and so tasty that it disappeared in a minute!
The recipes are laid out really well, with clear step by step instructions and lots of reference "tags" to give more information about ingredients or interesting substitutions or even "make it special" suggestions to dress up your creations.
The recipes are really easy, but the results can make people think you spent the whole day in the kitchen. I tried both of the recipes pictured on the cover and they got rave reviews, without being much fuss. And the others were not too difficult either.
The book is divided into sections for rolled, dropped, bar cookies and so on, making it easy to find what you feel like making. There are very nice and yummy pictures of many recipes to give you an idea of the results.
Maybe the only negative thing is that these recipes are all very rich and not good at all if you are counting calories or have health problems, but I guess you are not supposed to make cookies, if you are on a diet :P! They all have nutritional information, though, so at least you can choose the less "sinful" ones.
The sidebars explaining the different ingredients are very informative and can help you with recipes from other books,too, of course.
I tried a few recipes from this book and it has already become a favourite! Highly recommended.

14 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Contains all your favorite cookie recipes!, July 11, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Pillsbury: Best Cookies Cookbook: Favorite Recipes from America's Most-Trusted Kitchens (Hardcover)

I got this book for Christmas and have been baking ever since. Easy to follow, no-fail recipes along with lots of pictures make this a must have for all those who love to bake. I will definitely pass this book along to my kids.