by Jacquelyn Parkes (641.865 Par)
Let’s get this out of the way right off — there are not photos of every recipe in this book. Which is a major drawback otherwise I wouldn’t have recognized how fabulous “Peanut Butter Crispy Brownie Bars” are simply from the recipe. Seriously, photos of every single recipe are necessary in recipe books.
Aside from that, I enjoyed browsing
through this book and nabbed a few recipes for my kitchen.
What drew me to this recipe book is
the cookie yields are small: 24, or 36, or 48 — some are even 12 or 16 (okay,
what actually drew me to this book was the photo and recipe for Chocolate Thin
Mint Cookies). With the lower yield, you don’t have massive amounts of cookies
if there are only one or two of you at home (for example, the original Toll
House cookie recipe yields 60 cookies — assuming you aren’t eating the dough
along with the baking…). Nor are you struggling to find a large enough
container to store them all (again, assuming you baked all of the dough).
Neither are you spending the entire afternoon mixing, baking, and cleaning up
the kitchen.
The author claims these are 100 of
our favorite cookie recipes. I think she did a fine job of giving us a favorite
assortment of Drop Cookies, Brownies and Bars, Shaped Cookies, Rolled Cookies,
Slice and Bake Cookies, and Holiday Favorites. She also gives us a US/Metric
Conversion Chart.
The I Love Cookies Recipe Book begins with Cookie
Basics, including Equipment and Pans: Essential Equipment, and Not Essential
but Nice to Have (I always enjoy looking at the extra fun equipment you might
buy). There’s also a segment Gilding the Lily: Decorating Tips, and a small
section on Tools for Decorating.
Each recipe is only one page in
length — so there aren’t a lot of intricate steps — and also includes nutrition
information, since we all recognize how nutritious cookies are for us.
( publisher’s official I Love Cookies Recipe Book web page ) | (
publisher’s official Jacquelyn Parkes web page )
Recommended
by Charlotte M.
Bennett Martin Public Library — Public Service
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