Good Housekeeping The Best-Ever Cookie Book: 175 Tested-'til-Perfect Recipes for Crispy, Chewy & Ooey-Gooey Treats

by Good Housekeeping (Editor), Jane Francisco (Foreword by)

Overview

A cookie for every craving: From classics like chocolate chips to decadent delights (hello, skillet cookie sundae), this collection will become your go-to baking book.


Everyone loves a cookie! Whether you go right to the chocolate or are more of a buttery shortbread fan, there's a special cookie here just for you. The Good Housekeeping Test Kitchen presents their best-ever, tested-‘til-perfect recipes so you can find your soulmate in sweetness. Plus, a chapter devoted to holiday cookies will become your favorite for celebrations all year round.

Chapters include:

BAKE YOUR BEST COOKIES: Classic Sugar Cookie Dough, Spice Cookie Dough, Royal Icing, tips for decorating like a pro, and gifting and sharing cookies

DROP COOKIES: Strawberry-Oatmeal Cookies, Glazed Sourdough Snickerdoodles, Razzy-Jammy Thumbprints, Ginger Crinkles

SLICE & BAKE COOKIES: Matcha Cookies, Chocolate-Pistachio Slice & Bakes, Lemon Icebox Cookies, Lime & Coconut Coins, Pecan Crescent Cookies

BARS, BLONDIES & BROWNIES: Millionaire Shortbread, Orange-Turmeric Squares, Brown Butter Hazelnut Blondies, Double-Stuffed Brownies

SPECTACULAR COOKIE CREATIONS: Alfajores, Apple Pie Rugelah, Homemade Honey Graham Crackers, Cookie Shooters, Homemade Fudgy Ice Cream Sandwiches, Skillet Cookie Sundaes, Walnut Biscotti

HOLIDAY COOKIES: Chinese Almond Cookies, Jammin’ Heart Cookies, Hamantaschen, Nan-e Berenji, Lemon Curd Egg Cookies, Chocolate Dipped Macaroons, Coffin Sandwich Cookies, Nankhatai, Gingerbread Sandwich Cookies, Fruitcake Crisps

Whether you're baking for a special occasion or just for a sweet treat, you'll find tons of inspiration from the gorgeous photographs, clever ideas from the Test Kitchen editors (including gifting tips to pack them like a pro!), and inventive variations that all come out perfectly every single time.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781950785889
Publisher:	Hearst Home Books
Publication date:	09/21/2021
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	8.31(w) x 9.30(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Good Housekeeping is a leading lifestyle media brand inspiring a monthly audience of 58M readers—including more than 6M social media followers.

Jane Francisco is the editor-in-chief of Good Housekeeping and the Editorial Director of the Hearst Lifestyle Group where she oversees and develops content across multiple platforms for Good Housekeeping, Women's Day, Dr. Oz The Goodlife and Prevention. Jane lives with her husband and son in New Jersey.

Table of Contents

Foreword Jane Francisco 6

Chapter 1 Bake Your Best Cookies

From equipment essentials and measuring basics to decorating tricks and clever gifting ideas, these expert tips will transform you into a cookie-making pro. 8

Chapter 2 Drop Cookies

Perfectly soft peanut butter cookies, sugary snowballs and thumbprints galorel Recipes for all the classics, plus the ultimate chocolate chip cookie cheat sheet. 32

Chapter 3 Slice & Bake Cookies

Fruity, nutty, citrusy, savory - there's a flavor here to please any palate. Get Test Kitchen tricks for swapping ingredients, melting chocolate and freezing dough too. 88

Chapter 4 Bars, Bloodies & Brownies

Toffee-Pecan Bars, Millionaire Shortbread and Double-Stuffed Brownies are just a few of the easy-yet-divine recipes found here. No rolling, shaping or chilling necessary. 112

Chapter 5 Spectacular Cookie Creations

Turn to this chapter for gooey grown-up s'mores, melt-in-your-mouth skillet cookie sundaes and sweet sandwiches filled with scoops of ice cream, jam and dulce de leche. 148

Chapter 6 Let's Celebrate!

You'll find a cookie here for every holiday, from Lunar New Year to Christmas and any occasion in between. Also: 25 ideas for how to spruce up sugar cookies. 186

Recipe Index 248

Photography Credits 256

Editorial Reviews

★ 09/20/2021

The Good Housekeeping kitchen team offers up their aptly named collection of sublime cookie recipes, featuring “fresh-from-the-oven” favorites oozing with ingenuity and flavor. Organized by method—from drop and “slice and bake” to bars and brownies and beyond—there are treats for every occasion and palate, explained in thorough but not overwhelming detail. Test kitchen tips focus on the little things that make a difference (“never place cookie dough on a hot baking sheet”), and a handy equipment list offers readers a simple guide to the essentials, such as reusable silicon baking mats and tweezers (which are to be designated only for use in the kitchen). A no-fuss guide to measuring and conversion will be key to quality baking results (hot tip: “Don’t try to gauge from above”). Basic but delicious recipes are on offer for everything from cookie dough to royal icing to vanilla buttercream, along with “Switch It Up” footnotes—such as swapping in melted dark chocolate for confectioners’ sugar in ricotta cookies. Drool-worthy standouts include caramel, chocolate, and walnut thumbprints and potato chip and pecan sandies, while an assortment of attractive shortbread bars abound. This is sure to raise the bar for bake sales, cookies swaps, and holiday baking. (Sept.)

Publishers Weekly

The Good Housekeeping kitchen team offers up their aptly named collection of sublime cookie recipes, featuring “fresh-from-the-oven” favorites oozing with ingenuity and flavor. Organized by method—from drop and “slice and bake” to bars and brownies and beyond—there are treats for every occasion and palate, explained in thorough but not overwhelming detail…. This is sure to raise the bar for bake sales, cookie swaps, and holiday baking.
—Publishers Weekly, starred review

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