1001 Cookie Recipes

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Summary: Move over cookie monster!!
Review: I was getting bored eating the same old cookies I would buy at the store. With this book it would take years to try them all. 1001 recipes on making cookies of every type, texture, and way you could imagine. It is impossible to get bored with this book. I spent hours just trying to decide which cookie to make today and which tomorrow. I can't eat them fast enough to bake another style. You can never be to old or to young for cookies. Get this book, you won't be sorry.

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Summary: Not as useful as you'd hope.
Review: No dout about it - there are more cookie recipes in this book than you are likely to find anywhere else. You'll find some exotic offerings as well as traditional home baked cookies. My problem with this book, however, is that it doesn't tell you anything about the recipes; it just lists the ingredients and gives you the baking instructions. This is especially frustrating when there are multiple recipes listed for a certain kind of cookie. For example, there are 5 recipes for "Ginger Cookies", but no description of what distinguishes each. Yes, I can read that they have slightly different ingredients, but I want the author to tell me what is special about each recipe. For example, which one produces a crisper cookie, which one has a longer shelf life, which has the most intense ginger flavor? Also, there appear to be some traditional international recipes here, but there is no explanation of the origin or tradition about the cookies. Finally, the same recipes seem to appear again and again with slightly different names and shapes. I think you'd be hard pressed to say that there are 1001 unique cookie recipes in this book.

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Summary: Bleah...
Review: Not thrilled - many of the recipes feature shortening, which tends to give them a rather icky texture & taste. They also often seem very doughy and come out underdone.

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Summary: Recipes don't work
Review: This book is a marketing scam. It's got pretty photos, but all the cookies I made were failures. I ended up throwing out at least 3 batches from different recipes. I'm an accurate cook, and after following the recipes from this book, they came out absolutely inedible!!! Not even my sweet obssessed kids would eat them. I had to write this to warn others not to buy this book. Stick to recipe books that have been well received with tested recipes and written by well-known cooks.

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Summary: Heaven has got to be 1001 cookie recipes....
Review: This cookie book is the best general cookie cook book on the market. The sheer number of cookies included in the book is marvelous, but even better is that the recipes come with photos as well. If you are looking for an almond cookie with a certain shape and texture, you can find it instantly. This book is perfect for the holiday season and for anyone who enjoys making cookies. Most of the recipes are simple and easy to follow. This book makes a wonderful gift and is a necessary addition to the collection of any serious cook.

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Summary: The Cookie Crumbles
Review: This is a good book as a reference for what a particular type of cookie is. It would be good for baking for International Day at your kids' school since kids will eat almost anything sweet. The cookies I have made have been edible but unexciting. I got it because the recipes call for shortening (my daughter is allergic to dairy products). However, I have had much better luck using other cookbooks and substituting margarine for butter. What do you need this many recipes for if you don't want to eat them?