[.ca] How to Make Cookie Jar Favorites: An Illustrated ... (ISBN 0936184272)

From Amazon.com:
Cookie recipes: do we really need more? Absolutely, provided they're from How to Make Cookie Jar Favorites, a truly useful guide. In fewer than 100 pages, it presents illustrated, step-by-step instructions for preparing all-time cookie delights, definitive recipes for the likes of oatmeal, sugar, icebox, and chocolate-chip cookies, and tips and information that all cooks can use. Beginning with an exploration of cookie ingredients, along with an investigation of baking equipment and mixing methods, the book then presents master formulas with interesting variations and related recipes. A typically concise chapter offers foolproof formulas for classic Toll House and chewy chocolate-chip cookies (an extra egg yolk and melted butter yield lasting chewiness), in addition to suggestions for coconut with toasted almonds and black-and-white chocolate-chip variations. Other exemplary recipes follow, such as those for snickerdoodles, peanut butter cookies, almond crescents, and sandies. Underlying techniques are explored and illustrated throughout (manipulating dough to achieve marbleized cookies is one) and sensible tips abound (for example, when making second and third batches, don't place the dough on hot cookie sheets or baking may be uneven). A true primer, the book is part of the Cook's Illustrated Library, a modest yet consistently authoritative series from the editors of Cook's Illustrated magazine. Like the magazine, the books are dedicated to presenting tried-and-perfected recipes and cooking techniques in a concise, approachable way. --Arthur Boehm

Great recipes in this tiny little gem:
If you love peanut butter cookies and want to make them, then buy this book for that recipe alone -- they are heavenly. I plan to bake my way through this little book over the next few months. As usual the Cook's Illustrated team provides excellent recipes and explain the how's and why s of their testing in order to achieve this excellence. My one disappointment is the brevity of the book, but I would still recommend it because the recipes are wonderful.

Can not dispute the recipes ...:
Quite honestly dessert recipes from the people at Cooks Illustrated are my flat out favorite. What ever they do, I believe they are some of the best that you will try. Their chocolate chip cookies are delicious and about as close as to a wonderful bakery as you are going to get. This series of books disappoints me. Think the size of a large postcard, that is going to be the size of this book, its not thick either. The Dessert Bible would be a better choice many more recipes than what this has at not a great increse in price. I am disappointed at the lack of content in this boo. Great recipes, but not a great price.