Written by
Linda J. Amendt
One of America's Best Home Bakers
Imagine the wonderful sensation of biting into a delicious, fresh-baked homemade cookie, still warm from the oven. Smell the tantalizing aroma that wafts through the whole house.
Baking cookies is both a creative art and a science. It takes skill and practice to master the art, but it also requires an understanding of the key elements of baking to comprehend the science. With the right recipes, clear instructions, and essential information on ingredients, equipment and techniques, anyone can become a great cookie baker.
The Complete Cookie Cookbook focuses on creating great cookies with great flavor. The author reveals the secrets to using the right ingredients and preparation methods to bake the best cookies. Layers of flavor give these cookies that extra-special taste to please cookie enthusiasts of any age. From the butter, to the sugar, to the extracts, to the chocolate and nuts and fruit, each flavor builds on and enhances the others to create tantalizing cookies.
The Complete Cookie Cookbook will not only discuss which ingredients are best to use in making different types of cookies, but will also explain how ingredients interact with each other. Using the right ingredients, in the right amounts, can determine the success or failure of the cookie.
Cookie bakers will be delighted by the features they discover in The Complete Cookie Cookbook, including:
• A broad-ranging collection of 300 great-tasting cookie recipes that anyone can bake
• Clear, detailed instructions that help and educate, not confuse or intimidate the reader
• Explanations and definitions of the terms used in cookie baking
• Expert advice and insight from an award-winning baker
The wide variety of cookie recipes and extensive baking information in
The Complete Cookie Cookbook are presented from the practical, realistic perspective of a knowledgeable and experienced home baker. Information is conveyed in a
friendly, neighborly style designed to set the reader at ease and to make bakers feel like the author is right there alongside them in the kitchen guiding them through the process.
Using the information, techniques and recipes in
The Complete Cookie Cookbook anyone anywhere can become a great cookie baker.
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