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Summary: A great collection of favorites.
Review: A beautiful coffee table style books with some very interesting baking ideas. While the title might be deceptive, this is not just a cookie book. Most of the treats are sweet, but there are also recipes for "Lavender Scones," "Dill Potato Cakes," and "Curried Crackers."It might take a lifetime to make all 200 recipes, so I recommend this book as a holiday treat book. The gingerbread Teddy Bears (complete with painted on pajamas) and Chocolate Nut Clusters have "Christmas Gifts" written all over them! While I have seem many Scottish Shortbread recipes, this is the first book which explained how to make them look very professional by shaping them in a mold. There is also a recipe for Lavender Heart Cookies which Jerry Traunfeld has also helped to make famous. Here and there you will find a bit of interesting information. "In folklore, lavender has always been linked with love, as has food, so make some heart-shaped cookies and serve them on Valentine's Day or any other romantic anniversary." "Coconut cookies are sold in Israeli street markets during Passover." There is also a lovely recipe for Ladyfingers which are used as the basis for Tiramisu. The book is worth the money for that recipe alone.
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Summary: Five Stars Just on Diversity and Variety of Recipes!
Review: Colorful and diverse. This book was published in New York, but feels British to me. There are really great explanatory steps and photographs showing techniques along with a finished photo of how every cookie, scone and brownie appears when done. It's a big book as well, I mean tall. There are also muffin recipes, and savory baked goods recipes. Let me give you a brief sampling of some of the diverse recipes: Coconut Oatmeal Cookies, Buttermilk Cookies, Snickerdoodles, Churros, Chocolate Marzipan Cookies,Morvarian Tarts, Lace Cookies, Amaretti,Bacon Twists,Cheddar and Chive Biscuits, Popovers,Sticky Date and Apple Squares, and on and on. There are over 200 illustrated recipes.
This would be a great gift for someone who is starting to bake or for anyone who likes baking cookies and enjoys the unusual recipe.
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Summary: Not sure if it's me or the book...
Review: Every recipe I have tried from The Great Big Cookie Book has been an utter failure. It's not obvious if I did something wrong, or if they are just bad recipes. I made snickerdoodles, and they came out like little scones. My mom pointed out later that their recipe is missing a key snickerdoodle ingredient - cream of tartar. In fact, all of the cookies I have tried from this book have the consistency of cake rather than what I consider cookie texture. And they are very bland - whatever you do don't make the peanut butter cookies if you are craving a sweet treat! I have had much better results with other baking books, so keep searching!
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Summary: This book is OK
Review: I JUST LOVE THIS BOOK. THE ILLISTRANTIONS ARE GOOD FOR A BEGINNER AS I AM. I HAVE TRIED THE CHEESE CAKE AND IT TURNED OUT PERFECT. I AM HAVING A BABY SHOWER AND WANTED TO MAKE THE CHEDDER PENNIES SO I TRIED THE RECIPE AND IT WAS HORRIBLE. THE CHEESE AND BUTTER MELTED AND THERE WAS NOTHING LEFT AFTER 8 MINUTES IN THE OVEN. I AM GLAD I TRIED THE RECIPE PRIOR TO THE SHOWER.
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Summary: THE GREAT BIG COOKIE BOOK
Review: I JUST LOVE THIS BOOK. THE ILLISTRANTIONS ARE GOOD FOR A BEGINNER AS I AM. I HAVE TRIED THE CHEESE CAKE AND IT TURNED OUT PERFECT. I AM HAVING A BABY SHOWER AND WANTED TO MAKE THE CHEDDER PENNIES SO I TRIED THE RECIPE AND IT WAS HORRIBLE. THE CHEESE AND BUTTER MELTED AND THERE WAS NOTHING LEFT AFTER 8 MINUTES IN THE OVEN. I AM GLAD I TRIED THE RECIPE PRIOR TO THE SHOWER.
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Summary: very disappointing
Review: I received this book as a gift from my mother-in-law, who knows I enjoy cooking and baking. I consider myself a fairly accomplished baker and cook, although I'm not a professional. Nevertheless, all of the recipes in this book that I tried were complete flops. It made me wonder if any of the recipes had been kitchen tested at all. None of the recipes I selected were terribly complicated. The Chocolate Chip Hazelnut cookies I tried looked all right to start, but they came out resembling something more like a puff pastry, but not nearly as appetizing. The chocolate macaroons were soggy and gooey, not at all like the picture in the book. The gingerbread squares came out dense, heavy and pretty much inedible. The pictures are very nice to look at, but I fear that's all this book may be good for.
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Summary: YUM!
Review: I recieved this book as a Christmas present from my mother last year, and right away was impressed with the detail that obviously went into making the book, all the directions are illustrated, in full color and are a great help. I have made about 3 types of cookies from this book so far and they all came out great!
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Summary: beautiful book
Review: Positive First- There were lovely pictures. There was some useful and some interesting information, but I believe examples of this are given in a different review. There were a wide variety of cookie recipes and other types of recipes. The sugar cookies were great which is why it's still sitting on my shelves. One day I'll copy that recipe and get rid of the book. Negatives- This book is not all cookie recipes. Many of the recipes I tried did not work and I had to improvise. For example, in one recipe I found I had to add two eggs and still add some water to the recipe. This is after following the directions exactly and trying to make the same recipe several tims and having each time to add the extra liquid. Overall, I'd say that you can skip this one and that there are other better cookie cookbooks out there.
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Summary: Not so bad
Review: When I took this book at the library, I checked my amazon.com review. It was bad, so I decided to try the recipes. I tried sugar cookies (lights), chocolate chips muffins (my bests so far), cornmeal biscuits (tasty and lights), coconut oat cookies (now I understand what is chewy). All where great, so I think this cookbook is not as bad as some would like to say. I really appreciated the fact that the sugar rate is lower than in most of the american recipes I tried so far.
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