Wild, Wild West Cowboy Cookies [Hardcover]

Tuda Libby Crews (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 1997

Learn The Easy Steps To Make and Decor- < Ate Original Wild, Wild West Cowboy < Cookies--So Tasty, The West Just Melts < In Your Mouth! Delectable Sugar Cookie < and Chocolate Doughs Are The Basic < Beginnings, Topped With A Wild Assort- < Ment of Frosting Colors, Textures, and < Flavors That Bring Cowboy Cookie Shapes < To Life. Decorating Techniques With < Background Colors and Contrasting Piped- < Frosting Details Make Proffessional- < Looking Cookies A Natural To Give As < Gifts, Use As Decorative "Place Cards" < and Ornaments--And Just Try To Reserve A < Few For The Cookie Jar! A Variety of < Western Images Dance Across The Pages In < Stunning Colors Guaranteed To Fuel The < Baking and Eating Appetites of Buckaroos < and Buckarettes of Every Age. A Saddle- < Bag of Decorating Ideas Invoke The < Spirit of The Frontier, Accompanied By < How To Store, Pack, and Ship These West- < Ern Delights.

Editorial Reviews

From the Back Cover

I love Wild West Cookies, because I love any cookie baker who encourages the important traditions of baking cookies and sharing them with family and friends. And, more importantly sharing goodness from the heart.

--Debbi Fields, author of Debbi Fields Great American Desserts, founder Mrs. Fields Cookies

Tuda Crews is a talented baker. Her fabulous cookies taste as good as they look-and they look great!

--Beverly Cox author of Spirit of the West: Cooking from Ranch House and Range

What the great Western silversmiths and leather carvers have done for bits, spurs and saddles, Tuda Crews has now done for our collective sweet tooth. She has a hearty appetite for the West and its most colorful accouterments. Her great gift is passing her secrets along.

--Teresa Jordan, author of Riding the White Horse Home

Tuda Crews has created a taste for the West. Making the Wild Wild West Cowboy Cookie is as easy as pulling on your boots. This cookbook will bring shouts of delight from your family and friends. Enjoy!

--Jane Sullivan, First Lady of Wyoming, 1987-95

Better than coffee after a long day's ride, able to leap tall alliterations in a single bound, Cowboy Cookies are the answer to any declining appetite or fancy for the ephemeral arts. Tuda Crews has finally done it. The cowboy myth is so elusive, why not eat it? A great, fun work.

--Hal Cannon, founding director Western Folklife Center, Cowboy Poetry Gathering

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Introduction

Pardner, the Old West comes to life in your kitchen as you mix, cut out, bake, and decorate Wild, Wild West Cowboy Cookies. Created for big and little "kids" who love the cowboy's way of life, this cookbook shows you how to create delightful western cookies. It includes a yummy lemon-flavored cookie dough recipe and a rich chocolate-flavored dough recipe, three delicious frosting recipes, and a wealth of information on how to decorate cowboy cookies. There decorating tips can be applied to cookies made for any occasion.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 48 pages
• Publisher: Gibbs Smith Publishers; 1st edition (August 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0879058080
• ISBN-13: 978-0879058081
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.2 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,181,357 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Create Your Own Stampede!, March 21, 2003

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This review is from: Wild, Wild West Cowboy Cookies (Hardcover)

This 50-page, full-color cookbook is a delight for fans of Western baking. Tuda Libby Crews walks you through the process of creating beautiful, authentic, Western-themed cookies step-by-step. From recipes for cookies, icings, and even a pattern for a chili-pepper shaped cookie, Tuda shows you how to make extraordinary cookies in your own kitchen.

I made the Buffalo cookies using Tuda's copper Buffalo cutter. The Chocolate Buffalo Dough used ingredients that I had readily on hand: butter, shortening, flour, chocolate, eggs, vanilla, and sugar. Using Tuda's Tips, I was able to efficiently and easily roll out the dough. No struggling with crumbling dough here! The dough had a beautiful texture and was very easy to handle. However, the dough is very stiff and it mixes best in a large mixer (I used a 6-quart mixer).

The cookies baked best using parchment paper. The parchment paper really made a difference in holding the shape of the cookies. The cookies had a light and almost chewy-texture, depending on how thickly you roll them out. They were not brittle.

After baking, I cooled and iced them just like Tuda, even accenting the Buffalo coats with chocolate sprinkles (or jimmies). The cookies were happily received and applauded. These Chocolate Buffalo cookies are original, unique, and remarkable. You'll enjoy making them as much as eating them!

This cookbook also includes recipes for Cowboy Sugar Cookies, Adobe Frosting, and Sugar Baby Frosting. Tuda thoughtfully includes Tips for Rolling-Out, Cutting-Out, Baking, and Decorating the cookies. The Decorating techniques are clear and easy to follow. Tuda even tells you how to pack these cookies for shipping them long distances!

You will enjoy this cookbook from cover to cover. It makes for lovely afternoons with your family, or even as a baking adventure for cookie lovers. Go ahead, bake a herd of Buffao and start a stampede to your kitchen!

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This is a cookie cookbook that everyone should own!, April 9, 1999

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Laura ([e-mail]) (New Mexico, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Wild, Wild West Cowboy Cookies (Hardcover)

The recipes are delicious and the cookie cutters are adorable. I have received many, many compliments on the cookies I have made - and I have just begun to learn how to decorate them. Tudda Libby Crews gives a wonderful history of the recipes and her life. It's a great cookie cookbook for those who want to "experience" the wild west!

4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This is a fabulous cookie cookbook, October 26, 1999

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This review is from: Wild, Wild West Cowboy Cookies (Hardcover)

The author is an extraordinary woman who has mangaged to create a wonderful book that is fun to read and fun to follow. The results are amazing and the story is warm and telling of the western lore so appealing to many. She also has written a second book in the series, Wild Wild 1950's Cookies... which is equally charming and fun.