Cookies

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Summary: Excellent recipes 1 small drawback
Review: This book contains over 60 recipes, that are absolutely fabulous. The best part of the book is that is gives detailed illustrations of each cookie as well and detailed written techniques on how to put these cookies together. These are not your run of the mill cookie recipes by any means. The book is divided into 7 sections: drop, bar, cutout, sliced, shaped & molded, pressed and special cookies. The ingredients can be found in any store. The book also goes into basic as well as "advanced" techniques so as to not leave one puzzled about the process of cooking these cookies. For example there are sections on, basic tools for making each of the categorized cookies. Also included is a glossary as well as notes about picking and storing certain ingredients. The thing that I disliked about this book is that is in ounces w/o a conversion chart. Naturally there are different conversions from ounces to cups for liquids, fours, sugars, etc. 6ozs of butter is not the same as 6 ounces. of sugar or 6 ounces of flour. Most cookbooks I have don't use ounces, they use cups so I found that rather irritating, although I made my own conversion charts in the flaps of the book. Aside from that small drawback, I would most certainly recommend this book! Anyone who is looking to add flair to their cookie recipes is sure to find some wonderful ones in here. some of the recipes are: Orange cheesecake dreams, chocolate coconut meringue bars. liner sandwich rings, raspberry pinwheels, meringue topped lemon thins, chocolate pistachio sandwich cookie, marshmallow sandwich cookies, cinnamon snails, lemon pistachio pretzels, koulourakia, glazed almond strips, anise butterflies, lemon-ginger tea cookies, white chocolate-apricot rugelach and chocolate-dipped mushrooms. Also basic but lovely recipes for madeleines, ladyfingers and biscotti. It is also easy to modify the flavors of the cookies to meat your own desires.