Crazy for Cookies, Brownies, and Bars: Super-Fast, Made-from-Scratch Sweets, Treats, and Desserts

Length: 208 pages
Edition: 1
Language: English
Publisher: Harvard Common Press
Publication Date: 2022-02-01
ISBN-10: 0760372810
ISBN-13: 9780760372814
Sales Rank: #7758 (See Top 100 Books)

You can be a world-class cookie baker, making perfect-every-time cookies that everyone loves. It’s not a crazy idea at all, with Crazy for Cookies, Brownies, and Bars as your guide.

Author Dorothy Kern is one of the most trusted and widely read baking bloggers on Earth—and with good reason. Her tested-to-perfection recipes are easy to make, scrumptiously delicious, and full of creative new flavor ideas. In these pages, she serves up more than 85 recipes, each with its own color photo.

Dorothy shows you how to make cookies in batches big or small and offers expert tips on how to store them so they stay fresh for a long time. What’s more, she guides you in taking your cookie skills in new directions, into the delectable world of brownies (lots of different kinds of brownies!), blondies, shortbreads, shortcakes, cookie cakes, and more. Her book includes cookies that range from traditional favorites to all-new concepts:

Seriously the Best Chocolate Chip Cookies
Trail Mix Oatmeal Cookies
Raspberry Almond Spirals
Nana’s Drop Sugar Cookies
Orange Dream Cookies
Chocolate Peanut Butter Potato Chip Cookies

Beyond the cookies, you’ll love the recipes for:

Brown Butter Pecan Blondies
Apple Shortbread Bars
Caramel Crunch Bars
Bacon and Caramel Brownies
Vanilla Lovers’ White Chocolate Brownies
Fruit Tart Cookie Cups
Birthday Cookie Cake

…among tons of other delicious crowd-pleasers. Your family and friends will be thrilled with the results—and so will you.

It’s the definitive book on cookies—and so much fun to use!

Cover
Title Page
Contents
Introduction: Let’s Get Crazy About Cookies
    Know Your Key Ingredients
    Tools for Successful Baking
    Storing and Freezing Tips
    The Seven Rules for Successful Cookie Baking
Chapter 1 Cookie Jar Favorites
    Seriously the Best Chocolate Chip Cookies
    Banana Nut Cookies
    Toffee Chippers
    Coconut Cornflake Cookies
    Peanut Butter Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies
    Nana’s Drop Sugar Cookies
    Trail Mix Oatmeal Cookies
    Mel’s Peanut Butter Lovers’ Cookies
    Peanut Butter Chip Chocolate Cookies
    Sprinkle Cookies
    The Great Pumpkin Cookie Recipe
    Chocolate Chip Snowball Cookies
    Almond Joy Macaroons
    Molasses Cookies
    Tuxedo Cookies
Chapter 2 Brownies
    Fudgiest Brownies Ever
    Vanilla Lovers’ White Chocolate Brownies
    Oreo Truffle Brownies
    Mint Chip Brownies
    Peanut Butter Stuffed Brownies
    Death by Chocolate Brownies
    Bacon and Caramel Brownies
    Mocha Brownies
    Macadamia Nut Brownies
    Nutella Brownies
    Zucchini Brownies
Chapter 3 Blondies and Bars
    Brown Butter Pecan Blondies
    Cinnamon Blondies
    Bake Sale Blondies
    White Chocolate Lemonies
    Triple Decker Cookie Bars
    Peanut Butter Patty Bars
    Peanut Butter Magic Bars
    Caramel Oatmeal Cookie Bars
    Margarita Bars
    Chocolate Chip Cookie Gooey Bars
    Chocolate Chip Shortbread Bars
    Blueberry Lemon Bars
    Apple Shortbread Bars
Chapter 4 Cookie Cakes, Skillet Bakes, and Cups—Oh My!
    Birthday Cookie Cake
    Three-Layer Cookie Cake
    Sugar Cookie Cake
    Fruit Tart Cookie Cups
    Chocolate Lovers’ Cookie Cups
    Piñata Cookie Cups
    Strawberry Shortcake Cups
    Skillet Brownie for Two
    Brookie Skillet
Chapter 5 Crazy Cookies
    Dark Chocolate Espresso Cookies
    Orange Dream Cookies
    Chocolate Peanut Butter Potato Chip Cookies
    Ice Cream Cookies
    Mochadoodles
    Salted Butterscotch Cookies
    Cookies ’n’ Cream Red Velvet Cookies
    Giant M&M Cookie
    Lime in the Coconut Cookies
    Chocolate Candy Cane Cookies
    Raspberry Almond Spirals
    Pumpkin Spice Snickerdoodles
    Slice and Bake Cranberry Pistachio Shortbread
    Churro Cookies
    Fruity Pebble Cookies
Chapter 6 Stuffed and Sandwiched
    Chocolate Marshmallow Sandwich Cookies
    Chocolate Caramel Pecan Cookies
    Giant Stuffed Nutella Cookie
    Lemon Poppyseed Thumbprints
    Salted Caramel Ginger Sandwiches
    Cookies2
    Peanut Butter Thumbprints
    PB&J Sandwich Cookies
    Stuffed Carrot Cake Cookies
    Birthday Cake Sandwich Cookies
Chapter 7 No Oven, No Problem: No-Bake Cookies and Bars
    Haystack Cookies
    Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Bars
    Ultimate Peanut Butter Bars
    Biscoff Oatmeal No-Bakes
    Caramel Crunch Bars
    Sugar Cookie Bites
    Cookies ’n’ Cream Mud Bars
    Amaretto Bites
    Nutty Slice and No-Bake Cookies
Chapter 8 For Man’s Best Friend: Dog Cookies for Your BFF
    Ginger’s Gingerbread Cookies
    Abby’s Favorite Vanilla Cookies
    Pumpkin Dog Cookies
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Index
Dedication
Copyright