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Learn to COOK - The Ultimate Cookie Book (Better Homes & Gardens)
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List Price: $19.95
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Manufacturer: Better Homes and Gardens
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Binding: Paperback
Brand: Cookbook
Dewey Decimal Number: 641.8654
EAN: 9780696236792
ISBN: 0696236796
Label: Better Homes and Gardens
Manufacturer: Better Homes and Gardens
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 480
Publication Date: 2007-10-02
Publisher: Better Homes and Gardens
Release Date: 2007-10-02
Studio: Better Homes and Gardens
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There's nothing better than walking into a kitchen and being greeted with the smell of fresh baked cookies - except maybe eating those cookies. The Ultimate Cookie Book offers bakers the chance to explore 450 best kitchen-tested cookie recipes, from tried-and-true classics to unbeatable brownies to favorites that span the globe. Your baking success is ensured with a full-color baking and decorating guide-filled with ingredient information, tips, and techniques straight from the Better Homes and Gardens(r) Test Kitchen.
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Summary: Great recipes but many are repeats...
Comment: Basically this book is just an updated version of "Biggest Book of Cookies: 475 All-Time Favorites (Better Homes & Gardens) by Better Homes and Gardens (Plastic Comb - Aug 15, 2003)" which I already had. There are a few new recipes and the color pictures are wonderful but I am glad I just borrowed it from the library. Don't get me wrong, the recipes are great and scrumptious, and a great purchase if you don't own the other. Either book is a very nice gift for your baking friends.
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Summary: The cookie bible !!!
Comment: This book has become my bible for new cookies. There are so many to choose from and one is better than the next. Great pictures, easy directions.
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Summary: One small problem
Comment: This looks like a nice cookie cookbook--lots of color photos, lots of recipes. The problem is that many of the recipes call for using hydrogenated shortening (Crisco, e.g.), which we're supposed to be avoiding for health reasons. I realize, of course, that eating lots of cookies isn't exactly healthy, but as long as I'm going to bake them at home, I'd just as soon avoid using partially hydrogenated fat. Most store-bought cookies have at least a small amount of this
stuff. So I'll have to pick and choose carefully.
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Summary: Cookies for all tastes, plain and fancy
Comment: This book is a treat to look through and a delight to bake from. There are simple-to-make cookies and fancier ones for special occasions in many flavours and shapes, using all kinds of ingredients (chocolate, nuts, fruits, peanut butter, oatmeal, coconut, jams). There are drop cookies, shaped cookies, refrigerator cookies, bars, rolled cookies, etc. If you are in the mood to make cookies, this book will certainly inspire you to start baking. There is a full colour illustration for at least half the recipes showing the finished cookie and lots of helpful hints throughout the book. The print is easy to read and the recipes are clear but not over-wordy. My only complaint, and it's a minor one, is that the book is so heavy!
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Summary: Almost any cookie recipe you could ever want.
Comment: Better Homes and Gardens cookbooks are always exceptional, and so is the Ultimate Cookie Book. There's a great selection of standards, exotic and fancy cookies, and even some candy recipes like fudge and peanut brittle.
I especially liked the special baking tips and tools guide in the front. They even tell you where to get unusual ingredients like edible cookie glitter.
The instructions were quite detailed, and at least half the recipes had nice color photos so you could see the effects of their cookie decorating.
There were a couple of specific cookie recipes I was looking for that were not in the book, but they're not in any other cookbook I have seen, either. I wanted a recipe for those gourmet brownie cookies that you can buy in the shopping malls, and a recipe for chocolate cookies with creamy crushed peppermint candy filling for Christmas. Although these were missing, there were still recipes in there that were close. So I could probably improvise and figure out a recipe eventually.
Overall, I would say this book is a very good buy.
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