Martha Stewart's Cookies: Review
The Perfect Cookie For Every Occasion: A Cookbook by Martha Stewart
Delicious homemade cookies from your own kitchen. Martha Stewart's Cookies cookbook will delight the cookie lover in all of us! Grab an apron and crank up your ovens!
"Martha Stewart's Cookies: The Very Best Treats to Bake and to Share" is filled with 175 delicious homemade cookie recipes. Each one comes complete with full color mouthwatering photography. If that's not enough, Martha also devotes a whole section to gorgeous packaging and gifting your special treats.
The first page of the cookbook starts off with a very appropriate message: "Dedicated to the 'cookie monster' in all of us". The pages that follow are an index ~ a photo gallery of every cookie in the book rather than an ordinary table of contents.
Creative Chapters
Chapters are creatively divided into sections that showcase the texture of the cookies, not the traditional drop, rolled and refrigerated cookies you find in most cookbooks of this kind. Chapters such as: Light And Delicate; Rich And Dense; Chunky And Nutty; Soft And Chewy; Crisp And Crunchy; Crumbly And Sandy; and Cakey And Tender are enough to drive a baker crazy!
The Tools And Techniques chapter has full color photos on not just cookie scoops and measuring cups, but also impressive and detailed step-by-step instructions. Included are, how-to roll cookie dough; how-to shape cookies by hand and how-to decorate the amazing cookies with the Martha style she is so famous for.
The Packaging And Giving chapter doesn't disappoint the "Martha groupie". With her signature style, Martha transforms ordinary packaging into beautiful gifts. Cookie tins with handmade gift cards; hand-crafted boxes lined with dainty paper doilies and colorful recipe cards; origami boxes with pretty ribbons and pastel tuile will keep any creative baker happy forever!
Martha Stewart's Cookies
Expect traditional cookies like Soft and Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies, Oatmeal Raisin Cookies and Snickerdoodles. Earl Grey Tea Cookies and Coconut Cookies with Passion-Fruit Curd are cookies most bakers have never heard of. International varieties like Springerle, Bratseli and Palmiers will transport you a world away. And finally, America's favorite bar cookie, the ever popular brownie with all its many variations!
Although most cookie recipes in this cookbook are easy enough, there are some intricate and quite time consuming recipes that will challenge even the most accomplished home baker.
Martha Stewart is the author of countless books, ranging from cooking, baking, entertaining, decorating, weddings and gardening. She has her own blog, television show and many magazines including the very successful, Martha Stewart Living.
Title: Martha Stewart's Cookies: The Very Best Treats to Bake and to Share
Author: Martha Stewart and The Editors of Martha Stewart Living
Publisher: Clarkson Potter (March 11, 2008)
ISBN-13: 978-0307394545
List Price: $24.95 US, 352 pages
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