From the Publisher
"The Cookie Book" is all you'll ever need when its time for baking cookies. There is great variety, simple and fancy, bars and refrigerator, classics and wonderful variations of old favorites. Take for instance the Oatmeal Carmelitas, now if you love carmel like I do, and magic bars are one of your old favorites, this recipe is begging for a test run in your kitchen. Then there are recipes like "Best-Ever Chocolate Chip Cookies", "Hidden Kisses", "My Mother's Sugar Cookies" and "Best Butter Cookies" with names like these, resistance is futile.
There are so many recipes to pick from this is one cookbook you won't tire of. It accodates your mood, your taste and how much work you feel like doing. There's even a section on no-bake cookies. How much easier can it get than that to treat yourself and anyone else you might want to share with?
From the Inside Flap
When Susan Mahnke Peery featured the Wellesley, Massachusetts, annual cookie exchange party in Yankee magazine, 15,000 readers wrote in requesting recipes. This book presents over 200 favorite recipes - from Gingerbread Boys to Pink Almond Pearls and Lemon Love Notes, from Sicily to New England, from traditional to the unusual - The Wellesley Cookie Exchange Cookbook offers cookie recipes for all year round and for all holiday seasons.
It includes easy-to-follow recipes for classic cookies, refrigerator cookies, heirloom cookies, chocolate cookies, bars and squares, tea party fancies, and of course, Christmas cookies. The Wellesley Cookie Exchange Cookbook also tells you how to organize your own cookie-exchange party and share the goodness of this delightful cookbook.
