The Golden Book of Cookies is golden indeed. Wrapped in a gold wrapper, with gilt-edged pages, the beautiful formatting makes this book is a wonderful gift. The real gold, however, lies inside, for this is a cookie-lover's dream. There are 330 recipes for every variety of cookie, each recipe accompanied by a full color photograph to guide the eye and inspire decoration. Author Carla Bardi writes simply but authoritatively, guiding the novice and the expert with ease. If making a present, it is even more lavish when combined with Carla Bardi's recent the golden book of chocolate.
Bardi offers a brief history of cookies and a succinct, but vital, explanation of ingredients, as well as the "golden rules of cookie making," then plunges into this treasury of recipes. And it is a treasury as what food is quicker, easier, more comforting than a home-baked cookie, fresh from the oven. Literature lovers know well that the Madeleine inspired Proust to vividly remember his youth with one dip of the cookie into a teacup.
For easy selection Bardi has divided into sections based on the type of cookie. Try your hand at one in each category, or try all the recipes in any section and become a master. There are never cookies left over. The sections are:
Cut Out Cookies
Rolled and Sliced Cookies
Drop Cookies
Pressed and Piped Cookies
Filled Cookies
Bars and Brownies
Wafers and Macaroons
Tartlets and Tea Cakes
Holiday Cookies
Basic Recipes (glazes, frosting, etc.)
Within these sections you will find classic Sugar Cookies,
Marzipan Cookies, the ever popular
Chocolate Chip Cookies and Peanut Butter Cookies. You will find soft cookies and crunchy cookies, biscotti that stray sweetly from the norm, cookies with glazes or cookies with fruit fillings. And when holidays run around, you'll pull out cookies sheets to make Gingerbread People, Christmas Rings, or Christmas Night Cookies. You'll bake Sweetheart Cookies for your special valentine, or starry Fourth of July Cookies.
This is a complete work and a wonderful gift.
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