Tuesday, April 9, 2019

Cookie Love: 60 Recipes and Techniques for Turning the Ordinary into the Extraordinary by Mindy Segal with Kate Leahy

Book Description:  A new, edgier take on baking cookies, from a James Beard Award-winning chef and the owner of the popular Chicago restaurant, HotChocolate.
Mindy Segal is serious about cookies. And Cookie Love is your new go-to, never-fail reference for turn-out-perfectly-every-time cookie recipes. Mindy, award-winning pastry chef and self-professed “cookie nerd,” shares all of her secrets for turning classic recipes into more elevated, fun interpretations of everyone’s favorite sweet treat. From Peanut Butter Peanut Brittle Cookies and Fleur de Sel Shortbread with Vanilla Halvah, to Malted Milk Spritz and Peaches and Cream Thumbprints, Segal’s recipes are inspired and far from expected. Inside you’ll find more than sixty perfected recipes for every kind of cookie including drop cookies, bars, sandwich cookies, shortbread, thumbprints, and more, as well as the best tricks and tools of the trade and everything you need to know to build the ideal cookie pantry. A must-have for anyone looking to up their cookie-baking game, Cookie Love is a celebration of the most humble, delicious, and wonderful of baked treats.

My Thoughts:  We LOVE cookies!  And I've been baking more cookies for gatherings, too. Why?  Because I've found out that people like a dessert or a snack that they eat with their fingers and to be honest cake or pie is sometimes such a heavy dessert.
Cookie Love is such a fun, sweet book (pun intended).  There are some absolutely mouthwatering varieties and this recipes are twist to the original recipes . . . Smoky Bacon Candy Bar Cookies are one of the cookies that is a definite twist from the candy bar cookie.  
There are sixty wonderful cookie recipes for the baker to try. 
My favorite is the Oatmeal Scotchie.  But there are great cookies to try.  These are ingenious recipes and the photos showcase the cookies to a T. Baked treats at their best!
A lovely book to keep but would make a grand gift for the baker in your life!

  • Hardcover: 296 pages
  • Publisher: Ten Speed Press 
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1607746816
  • ISBN-13: 978-1607746812

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