Product Description

Fill your cookie jar with these dreamy homemade gems! Passionate about cookies? You'll want to sink your teeth into "Big, Soft, Chewy Cookies". This delectable cookie cookbook is packed with more than seventy-five recipes for colossal cookie creations. From tried-and-true favorites such as Oatmeal Walnut Raisin, Chocolate Chocolate Chip, and Rugelach to future favorites such as Banana Blitz and Super Duper Snickerdoodles there's a cookie here to please every palette. Plus, you'll even find recipes for chewy cookie bars and special treats like the spirited and festive Eggnog Cookie with Rum Butter Icing. Best of all, anyone can bake and enjoy these enormously gooey, enormously good - and just plain enormous - cookies. Each recipe includes easy-to-follow directions, and the book is loaded with dozens of helpful hints and bakers' secrets. Larger than life, many of these delicious cookies call for a quarter-cup measure of cookie dough!Here's a sampling of the tempting treats that await you: Decadent three-layered Chocolate Truffle Triangles; Luscious Brown Butter Pecan Cookies; Tart and tasty Sour Cream Jumbles; Classic Chocolate Chocolate Chip Cookies; Delicate Apricot Pillows; Fruity Rhubarb Oat Bar Cookies; Divine Vanilla Cream Sandwich Cookies; and much more! "Big, Soft, Chewy Cookies" ...there's nothing quite like them. These crowd-pleasing treats make every occasion special. Bake some today and discover just how delicious life can be!

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #21431 in Books
• Published on: 2003-08-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 176 pages

From the Back Cover

Fill your cookie jar with these dreamy homemade gems!

Passionate about cookies? You'll want to sink your teeth into Big, Soft, Chewy Cookies. This delectable cookie cookbook is packed with more than seventy-five recipes for colossal cookie creations. From tried-and-true favorites such as Oatmeal Walnut Raisin, Chocolate Chocolate Chip, and Rugelach to future favorites such as Banana Blitz and Super Duper Snickerdoodles there's a cookie here to please every palette. Plus, you'll even find recipes for chewy cookie bars and special treats like the spirited and festive Eggnog Cookie with Rum Butter Icing.

Best of all, anyone can bake and enjoy these enormously gooey, enormously good--and just plain enormous--cookies. Each recipe includes easy-to-follow directions, and the book is loaded with dozens of helpful hints and bakers' secrets. Larger than life, many of these delicious cookies call for a quarter-cup measure of cookie dough!

Here's a sampling of the tempting treats that await you:

• Decadent three-layered Chocolate Truffle Triangles
• Luscious Brown Butter Pecan Cookies
• Tart and tasty Sour Cream Jumbles
• Classic Chocolate Chocolate Chip Cookies
• Delicate Apricot Pillows
• Fruity Rhubarb Oat Bar Cookies
• Divine Vanilla Cream Sandwich Cookies and much more!

Big, Soft, Chewy Cookies . . . there's nothing quite like them. These crowd-pleasing treats make every occasion special. Bake some today and discover just how delicious life can be!

About the Author

Jill Van Cleave is a celebrated chef and food consultant. She is a member of the esteemed Les Dames d'Escoffier and the author of another tasty tome, Icing the Cake.

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Customer Reviews

Wonderful and funny.
I find this book very good. The recipes are very easy to follow, and the fact, that the measurings are american, isn't a problem. It was easy to get it translatet in to European measurements. Just use a dictionary, and make a list in the beginning of the book! Easy.

The recipes are as said, very easy to follow. And, for a European, often quite funny - the combination of ingredients are often unexpected and surprisingly.

Living in Europe, I have had no problems with finding all the ingredients, and if I once couldn't find it in the local store, I just replaced it with another. The recipes are often so simple, that I just have been using them as inspiration for new, and just as delicious, recipes.
I use this book very often.

Yum Yum Yum
Ok, this book is American and so the measurements are in cups. Please ignore the reviewer who gave up on the book after realising this, it couldn't be easier to either buy some American cups (which are really useful when cooking generally particularly for liquid ingredients) or just use a conversion chart which you can find after a simple online search or there is usually a conversion chart in any food magazine. It really is worth it, you can't buy proper cookie books in the UK.

This book is fab, there are old favourites like chocolate chip cookies and oatmeal and raisin, and also some more unusual and inventive. My favourite so far has to be chocolate milkshake cookies, which use softened ice cream and malt powder - they really taste like milkshake!

All the recipes are easy to follow and most only have a few simple steps. I have not come across any ingredients that I couldn't find. The book refers to all purpose flour, but this is just ordinary plain flour. This book is suitable for a baking beginner and most would be suitable for making (and eating!) with children. A fantastic little book.

Disappointed Lazy Cook
What a disappointment. After reading the wonderful write up I ordered this book desperate to make some of the lovely sounding cookies only to find that the one piece of information not mentioned which would have been of great help to me was that all the recipes are in American measurements. Unfortunately I am not such a keen cook that I can be bothered to do the coversions so I have given it to the school book stall! Sorry.