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| Great Cookies: Secrets to Sensational Sweets | 
 enlarge | Author: Carole Walter
Publisher: Clarkson Potter
Category: Book
List Price: $35.00
Buy New: $21.29
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Avg. Customer Rating:  26 reviews
Sales Rank: 25902
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 416
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3
Dimensions (in): 10 x 7.6 x 1
ISBN: 0609609696
Dewey Decimal Number: 641.8654
EAN: 9780609609699
ASIN: 0609609696
Publication Date: November 4, 2003
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Product Description
Carole Walter’s fans know her as an award-winning author, teacher, and mentor, and her new book will keep them cheering, as she turns her attention to the most popular theme in home baking: cookies.
Packed with more than 200 delectable recipes and more than 150 tantalizing photographs, Great Cookies skillfully and joyfully answers the call for a colorful, all-inclusive cookie book. From traditional favorites like Snickerdoodles, Oatmeal Raisin, and Favorite Lemon Squares to future stars of the cookie jar like the trail mix–inspired Teton Trailers and chewy, chocolaty Midnight Macaroons, Great Cookies provides something to satisfy every taste and every occasion.
There’s even a section devoted to the quintessential American cookie—chocolate chip. With nuts or without? White chocolate or milk? Chocolate dough? Oatmeal in the dough? Carole provides a dozen chocolate chip recipes in all, plus definitive research on a crucial issue: “Not All Chocolate Chips Are Created Equal.”
Drop cookies. Bar cookies. Piped, pressed, and rolled. Great Cookies covers every conceivable method for baking these tasty confections. In the more than thirty years that she has studied and taught baking, Carole has cataloged a wealth of helpful tips and troubleshooting hints that for the first time are gathered in one collection.
With guidelines for measuring and substituting ingredients, storing and freezing, recapturing that fresh-from-the-oven flavor, decorating, even gift-wrapping and shipping, Great Cookies addresses all the basics and then some. And this ultimate guide is rounded out with authoritative information on ingredients, equipment, and the foolproof techniques for which Carole is known, including the essential “Secrets To” hints for every type of cookie.
With master baker Carole Walter by your side, you may never look at a glass of ice cold milk the same way again.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 21 more reviews...
 If you have the time November 20, 2008
If you have lots of time and patience, you might be able to produce the results shown in these beautifully photographed cookies. Even though I committed the error of not thoroughly reading all of the steps before I started the ebony and ivory tiles, I couldn't believe that when I came to step 4, the directions did not continue to the next page, which left me with the problem of what to do next. Plus, what is a batarde? After looking this up in many dictionaries, I finally found out it is a loaf of white bread. White bread? So the step 4 directions say "Using a batarde or... (at this point the recipe skips to step 5!) Help! I want to have fun when baking, not a headache.
I also agree with the previous writer about the frivolous write-ups starting each recipe. The cookies are good, but not that good. I'll be sticking to the "easy" recipes and making sure that there are no editing errors that will leave me guessing.
Best Cookie Book November 4, 2008
This book is an absolute must have for anyone who loves to bake cookies. I love to bake and have a big collection of cookbooks but have never felt the need to buy a single other cookie book.
The book is divided up into chapters based on the type of cookie, including your classic drop cookies (oatmeal raisins, chocolate chips), hand rolled cookies (snickerdoodles, etc), oversized cookies, spritz cookies, international cookies (this chapter has a huge, broad selection of wonderful cookies from around the world), meringues, biscottis, and more. Carole Walter provides a very scientific and in-depth analysis of baking techniques, providing bulleted lists of secrets, tips, and troubleshooting. This is a very, very informative book, perfect for the novice baker or for anyone who loves to bake. However, I will say if you are interested in decorating cookies, this is not the book for you. There are no recipes for things like royal icing and virtually no tips on decorating. The book is more about the cookies themselves.
Overall, this is an incredible book and I highly recommend adding it to your collection!
Delicious cookies! October 23, 2008
I have had this book for several years, and everything that I have made from it has tasted delicious! Last weekend I made the Apple Pie Bars, and they were so fabulous that I could have finished off the entire pan myself. It is a beautiful book that includes pictures of the cookies, and very detailed instructions for each recipe. I also like that the recipes state how to store the cookies, whether they freeze well, etc. This is a great book, and I find myself using it more frequently than many of my other cookie and dessert cook books.
Cook book lover September 5, 2008
This book is great with so many different cookie recipes. The selection of recipes are so different then any other cookie book I own.
Great cookie book. March 21, 2008
The cookies in this book are extremely well executed. "Great Cookies" is one of my top three favorite cookie books.
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