Cookies at Home with The Culinary Institute of America

Cookies At Home with the culinary institute of america From quick and easy Chocolate Chip Cookies and Fudge Brownies to delightful Lemon Meringues and French Macaroons, this delicious cookie compendium includes nearly 100 recipes of every type and stripe. Cookies at Home covers basic cookie-baking techniques and offers helpful tips on equipment, ingredients, and decorating-all beautifully illustrated with drawings and full-color photography throughout.

No matter what kind of cookies you favor, whether as simple as chocolate chip or as complex as a gingerbread house, this book helps you take your home-baked cookies to new and delicious heights. Chapters include:

Cookie Baking Equipment: Full details on how to stock your kitchen with everything you need (and nothing you don't) to bake delicious cookies that will delight friends and family alike.

Basic Baking Ingredients and Methods: Comprehensive explanations of both basic and special ingredients and their baking properties, as well as methods for mixing and preparation.

D&##;cor and Packaging: Everything you need to know about decorating cookies, including chocolate décor, royal icing, and other techniques, plus packaging considerations when giving cookies as a gift.

Drop Cookies: Easy-to-follow recipes for basic drop cookies such as classic chocolate chip, peanut butter, and oatmeal, as well as more exciting, nontraditional recipes.

Bar Cookies: Simple but exciting recipes for traditional bar cookies like brownies and blondies plus techniques for layering and glazing.

Rolled, Cut-Out, and Sliced Cookies: Cookies that are cut or sliced from a flattened stiff dough before baking, including sugar cookies, gingerbread, and shortbread.

Molded, Stenciled, and Shaped Cookies: Unique and beautiful cookies using premade molds, stencils, or stamps, and usually decorated by hand.

Piped and Twice-Baked Cookies: Crisp and dry cookies, such as lemon meringue and biscotti, that are often dipped in chocolate or other coatings.

Savory Cookies: Mouthwatering baked concoctions using cheeses, herbs, vegetables, seasonings, and even meats-including puff pastries and canapés.

With simple step-by-step techniques, straightforward baking advice, and expertly tested recipes, Cookies at Home will enable you to produce cookies that will rival those of a seasoned professional baker.Bar Cookies: Simple but exciting recipes for traditional bar cookies like brownies and blondies plus techniques for layering and glazing.

Rolled, Cut-Out, and Sliced Cookies: Cookies that are cut or sliced from a flattened stiff dough before baking, including sugar cookies, gingerbread, and shortbread.

Molded, Stenciled, and Shaped Cookies: Unique and beautiful cookies using premade molds, stencils, or stamps, and usually decorated by hand.

Piped and Twice-Baked Cookies: Crisp and dry