The King Arthur Flour Cookie Companion by King Arthur Flour 2004, Hardcover: items on eBay.com

Publisher's Note
America's favorite bakers turn a fresh eye on cookies—everyone's favorite homemade treat.
Drawing on the same commitment to the home-baking community that has earned them hundreds of thousands of dedicated followers, the bakers at King Arthur Flour guide you through hundreds of recipes, revealing the secrets to making your own mouthwatering cookies for any occasion.
The bakers begin by singling out the "Nine Essential Cookies" and variations that reflect a variety of tastes, textures, and ingredients:

brownies
sugar cookies
chocolate chip cookies
shortbread
oatmeal cookies
peanut butter cookies
molasses-ginger cookies
biscotti
decorated cookies

From whoopie pies to ladyfingers, it's all here in one place. The King Arthur Flour Cookie Companion includes full chapters on drop cookies, roll-out cookies, shaped cookies, batter cookies, no-bake cookies, and bars and squares.
You'll find complete instructions for making cookie icings, fillings, and dips. You'll find a thorough overview of the essential ingredients of cookie baking, explaining the chemistry of flours and grains, leavens, sweeteners, fats, dairy products, flavorings, and the science of how these ingredients work together. You'll also learn tips on substitutions and variations; measuring and weighing ingredients; even advice on high-altitude baking. Recipes are enhanced with sidebars providing hints, shortcuts, troubleshooting advice, and recipe lore. And each recipe is accompanied by a complete nutritional analysis. Illustrations throughout the book provide clear step-by-step instructions that take the mystery out of such baking terms as "creaming," "soft-ball stage," and "folding." Finally, a comprehensive illustrated chapter describes the essential baking tools you'll want to have on hand. 150 line black & white illustrations.
AUTHORBO: King Arthur Flour is the largest single educator of bakers in the world. Employee owned since 1996, the company conducts a yearly national baking class tour that has provided free baking classes to many thousands of bakers across the U.S. The company also publishes a newsletter of recipes and baking information, The Baking Sheet. The Baker's Catalogue, a wholly owned subsidiary, sponsors an online baking forum, The Baking Circle, on its parent company's Web site. The company's 2003 release, The King Arthur Flour Baker's Companion, was selected as one of the best cookbooks of the year by Food & Wine, People, and many other national publications. All the bakers at King Arthur Flour work from their 12-sided post-and-beam headquarters in Norwich, Vermont.

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This very large cookbook from King Arthur Flour has it all! If you can think of a cookie recipe that you want to bake, it will be in this book. I made the utterly delicious Double-Shot Cappuccino Bars and the Cinnamon-Caramel Swirl Shortbread. My son loves molasses cookies and the On-the-Fence Molasses Cookies were a toss up with the Soft Molasses Cookies, so we baked both. If you love crunchy sugar cookies instead of soft, then try The Essential Crunchy Sugar Cookie and you won't be disappointed! There are just too many marvelous recipes in this book. You can find everything from drop cookies,roll-out,shaped, batter,no-bake, bars and squares. I'm trying as many as my waist line will allow! 5 stars for this cookie book!

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