Customer Reviews

Sugarbakers Cookie Cutter Cookbook

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This book had excellent recipes for cookies--not too sweet--and easy to follow directions. When it comes to directions for decorating, pictures would have been helpful. Most directions read: using spatula, spread icing in the ---area, or pipe on eyes,etc. It would be nice if there were patterns to follow. As it is,you have to keep referring back to the photos on the cover or center spread. Overall, though, a very good book with lots of information about where to get supplies and how to make your own cookie cutters.

The directions are clear and helpful I have easily learned the techniques. The recipes taste great and always work. The pictures are beautiful, I have successfully reproduced many of them and used the ideas to create other cookies.

The cookie recipes are disappointing. Some are for cookies that are not sturdy enough for cookie decorating. I found the proportions of ingredients in many of the recipes off, to the point where either they were too greasy or the cookie dough couldn't hold together. However, the instructions for how to decorate using different types of icing were helpful. I think this is a good book for ideas or design inspiration, but skip the recipes.

A book about decorating sugar cookies should include lots of picutures! The cover is deceiving because it makes it seem as though the book will be full of pictures like those, but it isn't. Somehow, a description of how you could decorate cookies just isn't the same.

Great decorating ideas and very tasty cookie recipes. I refer to this book often when I make cookie bouquets as gifts.

First, I've found some GREAT tasting recipes in here (and what does it matter if the cookie is pretty, but doesn't taste that good?). Secondly, although I agree w/ the other reviewer that there aren't a lot of pictures -- the point of the book, to my mind, was to get step-by-step directions in how to similarly decorate one's own cookies. To that end, I think the book succeeded.

I also found helpful the resource listing in back, and the summary of ingredients and how the different types (e.g. unbleached vs bleached flour) affect the cookie. The author also provides troubleshooting tips.

I bought this book in 1998 and started making cookies almost immmediately. I loved the recipes and the techniques I found there. I made cookies for friends and family and teachers and coworkers for almost every holiday and special occasion I could think of. It was fun and I loved it. So much so that I started my own business in 2000, a bakery specializing in hand-decorated shortbread cookies. Every year is better, and I am finally a happy camper at work. I am sooooo glad I picked up this book!

This is the best book I've found to teach yourself how to use Royal Icing. The information is presented clearly with both written and illustrated instructions. I give this book to all my friends who want to learn to use Royal Icing.
I have been using this book for over 10 years!

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Every recipe that I have tried thus far has been mind-blowing delicious! Everyone who receives these cookies from me has only the highest praise for them. Once they did not make it to the intended recipient for someone stole them to enjoy the cookies for themselves. (I never did discover the identity of the thief.) Though one recipe, "Sweet Cherry Treats", yielded a very soft cookie; it was so delectable that I made it work and it became one of my favorites. I have yet to ice any of the cookies that I have made from this cookbook for they are so scrumptious as is that I am afraid of spoiling an already good thing. You don't need another cookie cookbook if you have this one.