Maida Heatter's cookies
Maida Heatter (Author), Wolfgang Puck
"Blending a breezy prose style with precise, clearly sequenced instructions and a boundless respect for her topic, she offers a rounded collection for new bakers and experienced cookie hands. A chapter on techniques and equipment is followed by recipes arranged generally by the methods of shaping cookies, e.g., bar cookies and rolling-pin cookies. Recipes for rolled and cut cookies, those shaped by hand or with a pastry bag or cookie press suggest holiday fare. Heatter drops names along with rounded teaspoons of dough: Wolfgang Puck eats her cookies, and so does Gianni Versace. But she remains as exacting as the most diligent home-ec teacher when it comes to the baking process, even to packaging instructions. Like her subject, this is an irresistible offering. The Queen of Desserts is back, with lots of recipes for drop cookies, icebox cookies, bar cookies, and more. Even a few crackers and some desserts she couldn't resist including. Heatter's first Book of Great Cookies, published almost 20 years ago, became a classic but is now out of print. Once again, she presents recipes written with directness and attention to detail. There are all sorts of cookies here, both fancy and homey, and many are very easy to bake."--Hardcover edition
Print Book, English, ©2011
Andrews McMeel, Kansas City, Missouri, ©2011
Cookbook
xi, 322 pages ; 23 cm
9781449401153, 1449401155
704973454
Cookie basics
Chocolate drop cookies
More drop cookies
Bar cookies
Icebox cookies
Rolled cookies
Hand-formed cookies
And more
Crackers and extras
[Originally published in hardcover, 1997]
Includes index
"The recipes in this book were originally published in Maida Heatter's Book of Great Cookies (1977), and Maida Heatter's New Book of Great Desserts (1982), and Maida Heatter's Book of Great American Desserts (1985)."--Foreword