{"id":907,"date":"2012-04-01T16:26:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-01T16:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pastrysampler.com\/blog\/latest-read-fine-cooking-cookies\/"},"modified":"2018-05-22T16:20:33","modified_gmt":"2018-05-22T16:20:33","slug":"latest-read-fine-cooking-cookies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pastrysampler.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/latest-read-fine-cooking-cookies.html","title":{"rendered":"Latest Read: Fine Cooking Cookies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1600853692\/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=pastrybaking-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=1600853692\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ws.assoc-amazon.com\/widgets\/q?_encoding=UTF8&amp;Format=_SL160_&amp;ASIN=1600853692&amp;MarketPlace=US&amp;ID=AsinImage&amp;WS=1&amp;tag=pastrybaking-20&amp;ServiceVersion=20070822\" \/><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=pastrybaking-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=1600853692\" style=\"border: currentColor !important; margin: 0px !important;\" width=\"1\" \/><br \/>Making cookies is a holiday pastime for me and the family, and I have a few tried and true cookbooks I reference back to just about every season. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1600853692\/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=pastrybaking-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=1600853692\"><i>Fine Cooking Cookies: 200 Favorite Recipes for Cookies, Brownies, Bars &amp; More<\/i><\/a><i><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=pastrybaking-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=1600853692\" style=\"border: currentColor !important; margin: 0px !important;\" width=\"1\" \/><\/i> contains great recipes to try for the holidays or any time of year. What makes it stand out for me is the pictures: I&#8217;m a visual girl and I love seeing all the studio photos. Tips are sprinkled throughout the book to make cookie making easier.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the cookies are unusual, but resemble ones I&#8217;ve made from another favorite book of mine: <i>Plaisir de Petit Fours<\/i>, like the Cracao and Pain Turc from <i>Plaisir<\/i> and the Chocolate-Nut Wafers and Toasted Almond Thins from <i>Cookies<\/i>. I&#8217;ve made each both about a million times and I&#8217;d knew I&#8217;d seen them before, and was pleasantly surprised to see them included. The list of ingredients are similar, too. Having said that, this is a&nbsp;great collection of a broad range of cookies. The cookie recipes are presented by different people, so the recipes collected from the different contributors ensure that there is a wide range of styles and types.<\/p>\n<p><i>Cookies<\/i> by <i>Fine Cooking<\/i> magazine and Taunton Press has 200 recipes for just about every cookie variety. Chapters are broken down by type: Classic Cookies &amp; Confections; Bars, Brownies &amp; Bites; Fruit &amp; Nut Cookies; Biscotti &amp; Shortbread; Spirited &amp; Spiced Cookies; and  Sweet &amp; Savory Sandwiches, which is all about about sandwich-style cookies and confections, including recipes for the fillings. If you have a hankering for shortbread, there are more than a dozen to choose from.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, a great cookie recipe collection that presents both European and American favorites and&nbsp;new&nbsp;ideas&nbsp;in a way that makes it easy for home cooks to recreate in their kitchens. Like all <i>Fine Cooking<\/i> recipes, the ones I&#8217;ve tried have all turned out. The list of contributors is a who&#8217;s-who of notable pastry professionals, too.<\/p>\n<p><i>Book Information:<\/i><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>Fine Cooking Cookies: 200 Favorite Recipes for Cookies, Brownies, Bars &amp; More<\/i>; by the Editors and Contributors of Fine Cooking<\/li>\n<li>The Taunton Press; 2011<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Disclosure: This digital galley copy was provided to the author by the publisher. Any  opinions are the author&#8217;s own.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Making cookies is a holiday pastime for me and the family, and I have a few tried and true cookbooks I reference back to just about every season. Fine Cooking Cookies: 200 Favorite Recipes for Cookies, Brownies, Bars &amp; More contains great recipes to try&nbsp;<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pastrysampler.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/latest-read-fine-cooking-cookies.html\">&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[50],"tags":[15],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p86M9B-eD","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pastrysampler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pastrysampler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pastrysampler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pastrysampler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pastrysampler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=907"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pastrysampler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1478,"href":"https:\/\/www.pastrysampler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907\/revisions\/1478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pastrysampler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pastrysampler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pastrysampler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}