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Martha Stewart's Cookies
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I don’t care what the federal government thinks of her, Martha Stewart’s new bake book, Cookies, is brilliant. Organized visually (on each page, 20 or so photos with page numbers underneath) into sections with titles like, “light and delicate,” rich and dense,” “cakey and tender,” Cookies makes it easy to figure out what you’re baking because you can see all of the possible cookies right there, in front of you. No flipping the pages and forgetting what you wanted to compare. The two recipes I used were outstanding (Double Chocolate Coconut Cookies and Pumpkin Cookies with Brown-Butter Icing). Plenty of pictures, clear, short directions and most importantly, pages that stayed open while I was running around my kitchen with dusty cups of flour. I should say, though, that I suffered a fit of pique when my stirring spoon snapped in half while I was mixing the final part of my Double Chocolate Coconut Cookies. But boy, the resulting cookie was so good that I forgot the broken spoon. (641.8654 Mar) Located on the third floor of the Library in our non-fiction collection.
Written by Martha Stewart, 2008.
