Download or read book Pendant Cookie written by Julia M. Usher and published by Gibbs Smith. This book was released on 2012-12-19 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Julia M. Usher's Ultimate Cookies comes the beautiful Pendant cookie. Wow friends and family at your parties with the cookie decorating skills gleaned from the instructional videos included. Julia takes you step by step through stenciling, appliqué work, and more. It also includes recipes for different kinds of cookie doughs and an in-depth section on fifteen cookie decorating techniques.

Download or read book The Crafted Cookie written by Anne Yorks and published by Page Street Publishing. This book was released on 2021-06-01 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Create Show-Stopping Cookies Using Simple Royal Icing Techniques The Crafted Cookie is a beginner cookie artist’s dream come true. Through countless courses and videos, Anne Yorks has taught thousands of home bakers how to make cookie decorating simple and fun. Here, she covers everything you’ve ever wanted to know about creating cute and whimsical cookies that taste as good as they look. With accessible step-by-step tutorials for 50 creative designs arranged into themed platters, cookie artists of all skill levels will have plenty of inspiration for celebrating all year long. No more stressing over the intricacies of royal icing. Anne shares her best tips for royal icing, from coloring it to getting the right consistencies for piping and flooding and even how to store it. What’s more, she includes her foolproof base recipe for delicious, easy and incredibly versatile sugar cookies. These are just some of the gorgeous platters offered: - Rainbow Birthday featuring a colorful Rainbow Cake with Candles Cookie - Classic Christmas Faces complete with a Jolly Santa, an Elf and a Red-Nosed Reindeer - Give Thanks featuring a stunning lettered “Give Thanks” Wreath Cookie - Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star Baby Shower with a cute Sweet Dreams Footie Pajama Cookie - Farmhouse Easter including a sweet Farm Fresh Easter Eggs Barn Cookie This is the only book you’ll need to master the art of decorating stunning cookie after cookie. You’ll have as much fun designing them as you will sharing and devouring them.

Download or read book Paris Sweets written by Dorie Greenspan and published by Clarkson Potter. This book was released on 2008-12-18 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The prize-winning author of Baking with Julia (more than 350,000 copies sold), among other cookbook classics, celebrates the sweet life with recipes and lore from Paris's finest patisseries. Like most lovers of pastry and Paris, Dorie Greenspan has always marveled at the jewel-like creations displayed in bakery windows throughout the City of Light. Now, in a charmingly illustrated tribute to the capital of sweets, Greenspan presents a splendid assortment of recipes from Paris’s foremost pastry chefs in a book that is as transporting to read as it is easy to use. From classic recipes, some centuries old, to updated innovations, Paris Sweets provides a sumptuous guide to creating cookies, from the fabled madeleine to simple, ultra-buttery sables; tarts, from the famous Tatin, which began its life as an upside-down error, to a delightful strawberry tart embellished with homemade strawberry marshmallows; and a glorious range of cakes–lemon-drenched "weekend cake," fudge cake, and the show-stopping Opera. Paris Sweets brims with assorted temptations that even a novice can prepare, such as coffee éclairs, rum-soaked babas, and meringue puffs. Evocative portraits of the pastry shops and chefs, as well as information on authentic French ingredients, make this a truly comprehensive tour. An elegant gift for Francophiles, armchair travelers, bakers of all skill levels, and certainly for oneself, Paris Sweets brings home a taste of enchantment.

Download or read book Colossal Cookies written by Wendy Kou and published by Page Street Publishing. This book was released on 2018-12-11 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Larger-Than-Life Cookies for Larger-Than-Life Appetites Take your cookies to new heights with Wendy Kou’s supersized approach to baking. Each cookie—about the size of your head—is not only fun to make, but tastes delicious and is perfect to savor or share. These decadent cookies cover all your must-have flavors like chocolate chip, red velvet, sugar cookie, oatmeal, cinnamon roll and so much more. And if you’re feeling extra adventurous, there’s always the option to take on one of Wendy’s stuffed cookies (brownie or cheesecake middle, anyone?) or combination flavor cookies—like her chocolate espresso and red velvet cookie. Why bake a boring cake when you can make a Birthday Cake Cookie that feeds 8 to 10 people? And why have the same old sandwiches when you can make a Peanut Butter Jelly Cookie that will satiate you for days? With 75+ cookie recipes, and 20+ cookie variations, you’ll never run out of ways to make dessert feel new again

Download or read book A Cookie to Celebrate written by Jana Douglass and published by Mango Media Inc.. This book was released on 2018-05-31 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Easily create beautiful and delicious cookies for any and every occasion with these easy-to-follow recipes with photograph-filled instructions. A Cookie to Celebrate is an instant cookie-baking classic, with recipes that are gorgeously photographed and meticulously tested along with tons of decorating and packaging ideas. These inventive and inspired cookies will be perfect for sharing with your friends on Instagram?or in person! What sets A Cookie to Celebrate apart is its step-by-step, photograph-filled instructions for gorgeously personalized cookies for all kinds of occasions, from birthdays to anniversaries to the changing of the seasons. These ornamental edibles are perfect for the holidays, and because the recipes are easy to scale up or down, they’re great for cookie exchanges, gift-giving, kids’ parties, and potlucks. Jana Douglass is the founder of Jana Lee’s Bake Shop, an artisan bake shop that specialized in custom decorated cut-out cookies for special events and celebrations. In A Cookie to Celebrate, she shares her baking expertise and recipes as a veteran baker, inspiring you to create your own new classics. Each cookie in this collection is guaranteed to be a stand-out. Inside you’ll find new twists on cookie concepts, like Engagement Ring Cookies and Baby Onesie Cookies?confections decorated for every season and reason. Try something new with ice cream cone cookies with sprinkles in summer, conversation heart cookies for Valentine’s Day, or even decorating a birthday cake with cookies! Full of cookie baking tips, recipes, and presentation ideas, A Cookie to Celebrate will show you:How to expertly roll, cut, and bake your cookie doughHelpful tools and techniques for coloring and piping icingCreative ways to spice up classics?or try something new

Download or read book COOKIE A Love Story Fun Facts Delicious Stories Fascinating History Tasty Recipes and More About Our Most Beloved Treat written by and published by Sember Resources. This book was released on 2012-10-21 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyone loves cookies. Cookie: A Love Story: Fun Facts, Delicious Stories, Fascinating History, Tasty Recipes, and More About Our Most Beloved Treat is a glorious celebration of America’s favorite treat, a gleeful look at its history, impact, meaning, and deliciousness, filled with mouth-watering anecdotes and stories that will satisfy in a way no other book can. Special recipes, anecdotes, and everything you ever wanted to know about cookies are in its pages. Learn about the most popular cookie, the woman who invented the chocolate chip cookie, why we eat cookies at Christmas, when cookies were invented, how cookies impact elections, why Girl Scouts sell cookies and more. This romp through the cookie’s past and its place in our lives today is a delicious sampler of the delights the cookie has given us.

Download or read book Creative Cookies written by Toba Garrett and published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2005-03 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A feast for the eyes as well as the palate, this collection from media favorite Toba Garrett is available again. "The mouth-watering photos are enough to send you running to the store for baking equipment and ingredients...[these are] gorgeous works of art. A wealth of photographs and illustrations ensures that even novices will have success with their cookie-making marathons."--New York Daily News "Marvelous book...Superb photography shows the excellence of Ms. Garrett's work...A must for the cookie aficionado."--American Cake Decoration Toba Garrett--master baker, critically lauded author, and recent guest on Emeril Live--has devised cookies so delectable and exquisitely decorated that home chefs will be searching for occasions to make more. The simple recipes range from gingerbread to shortbread, from sugar cookies to chocolate. But what really makes these extra special are Garrett's clever techniques for turning the cookies into works of art that delight the eye as much as they please the palate. There are ruffled bibs in soft pastel hues for a baby shower, a white chocolate rose with eight petals, and a 3D bride and groom for wedding and anniversary celebrations. Anyone can create these effects with confidence thanks to the author's clarity and creativity. .

Download or read book Ultimate Cookies written by Julia M. Usher and published by Gibbs Smith. This book was released on 2012-09-01 with total page 633 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Delve into the world of cookie magic, where you can make everything from edible jewelry to cookie bacon and eggs! Organized by theme, each chapter is overflowing with luscious photographs and dozens of recipes and ideas. In carefully illustrated details, the author guides you to make perfect little cookie masterpieces. Julia Usher is a celebrated pastry chef and food writer. She is a James Beard Foundation Journalism Awards finalist and a Director of the International Association of Culinary Professionals (IACP). Usher has designed desserts for Better Homes and Gardens, Fine Cooking, Bon Appétit, and Modern Bride, as well as for the book Vera Wang on Weddings. She divides her time between St. Louis, Missouri, and Stonington, Maine. A new book from the author of the best-selling Cookie Swap.

Download or read book The Joy of Cookies written by Cookie Monster and published by Imprint. This book was released on 2018-04-10 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In life, there is one thing we can all agree on: cookies. And there is no greater expert on this endless source of joy, warmth, and crumbs than Cookie Monster. In The Joy of Cookies, Cookie Monster offers deep thoughts on life, friendship, baking, and the love of cookies. He serves as our guide to all things cookie and shares how best to fully experience the joy cookies bring us. This is a book to get us through the dark times and celebrate the good times, and to help us more fully understand who we truly are as both cookie lovers and as people. It’s the perfect gift for friends, family, and fellow monsters—the gift of cookies. An Imprint Book "Fans of the big blue guy will love this title, which, just like a warm chocolate chip cookie, oozes joy and happiness." —School Library Journal For more fun from folks who live on Sesame Street, check out Oscar the Grouch's The Pursuit of Grouchiness and Bert and Ernie's The Importance of Being Ernie (and Bert).

Download or read book Killer Cruise written by L. Levine and published by Jaine Austen Mystery. This book was released on 2021-08-24 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While teaching on a swanky cruise, wordsmith Jaine Austen soon discovers that her all-expenses-paid trip to the Mexican Riviera comes with a high price when she is faced with blackmail, a sleazy British dancer, eccentric passengers, and murder.

Download or read book The Jewelry Recipe Book written by Nancy Soriano and published by Artisan Books. This book was released on 2015-04-21 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Jewelry Recipe Book takes materials available at large craft stores (as well as specialty shops and artisan shops on Etsy)—beads, shrink plastic, leather, lace, pearls, sequins, polymer clay, yarn, and pinecones, to name a few—and transforms them into one-of-a-kind pieces of jewelry. Each of the 35 mini chapters organized by material consists of three projects and three skill levels, adding up to more than 100 stunning pieces that could easily be found for sale at Urban Outfitters or Anthropologie. Every piece is beautifully photographed, as are the majority of how-to steps, and the information is presented in an easy-to-follow way, like a recipe. The book also includes an overview of simple jewelry-making techniques and tips, with best practices for how to work with various materials; how to wear jewelry; and how to work with design elements that include color, scale, and shape.

Download or read book The Art of the Cookie written by Shelly Kaldunski and published by WeldonOwn+ORM. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Turn simple cookies into delicious masterpieces with this illustrated cookbook featuring more than forty delectable recipes and inspired decorating ideas. A beautifully crafted cookie is a work of art. The Art of the Cookie is packed with delicious cookie recipes that combine fantastic flavor with visual appeal. Whether it's a cookie exchange, holiday gathering, or Mother's Day tea, these cookies will be a memorable addition to any occasion. The Art of the Cookie begins with versatile roll-and-cut dough recipes, such as brown sugar cookies and gingerbread. These classic treats are then elevated with clever yet simple decorating ideas: vibrant vanilla-sugar flowers; alphabet shapes flooded with icing and sprinkled with colorful sugars; and petits fours stacked to resemble a miniature wedding cake. There are also recipes that put a modern twist on more extravagant cookies such as sparkly macaroons; wreath-shaped sugar cookies baked with lemon and thyme. Decoration and filling ideas include icing ornaments and striped cookies that taste and look like peppermint sticks.

Download or read book The Art of Cookies written by Noga Hitron and published by Ten Speed Press. This book was released on 2013-12-03 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There's truly nothing sweeter than a homemade cookie, but when it's creatively decorated, that cookie can become a tasty work of art. THE ART OF COOKIES delivers an imaginative collection of decorating ideas and designs, focusing on themes such as birthdays, weddings, baby showers, Christmas, Hanukkah, and Easter. Be serious. Be whimsical. Be adventurous or traditional. Let your imagination go and your fingers fly. If it doesn't turn out exactly right, who cares? Eat it and make another! The idea is to decorate, originate, elaborate—if it can be done on a canvas, it can be done on a cookie. Great art and great taste—what could be a better combination? • An upscale lifestyle book celebrating the art of cookie decoration for various themes and holidays. • Features an introduction to creative cookie decorating and a selection of core recipes and techniques. • Includes 50 step-by-step photographs of the design process so you can replicate the cookies with ease.

Download or read book The Artful Cookie written by Aaron Morgan and published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2006 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of recipes for more than thirty-five different types of cookies that describes simple, elegant decorating techniques that can be used to create beautiful, whimsical cookies.

Download or read book Cookie Craft written by Valerie Peterson and published by Storey Publishing. This book was released on 2015-04-07 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beautifully decorated cookies are within reach for every home baker, thanks to the easy and practical methods developed by cookie-crafting enthusiasts Valerie Peterson and Janice Fryer. From rolling and cutting to flooding and piping, you’ll find dozens of techniques to turn plain cookies into fun treats for your next special occasion. With instructions for making stand-up cookies, tips on creating icing color palettes, and advice on freezing and shipping, the cookie fun never stops!

Download or read book The Lost Secret of Dragonfire written by Tiffany Turner and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2013-03-05 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fairies are real. Don't have doubts. Their world can be dangerous as well. Wanda is too familiar with this. As a Crystal Keeper, she helps the fairies of her realm. But the evil sorcerer Balkazaar has other plans. He's kidnapped her friend and fellow Crystal Keeper Edina. Wanda is faced with the mystery of her disappearance while trying to figure out Balkazaar's next move. Haunted by dreams of dragons, Wanda must find a way to save her friend. But problems don't end with just one path. Will she find the right one to save the Fairy World? Or will Balkazaar have other plans? Join her in the third book of the Crystal Keeper Chronicles.

Download or read book How the Cookie Crumbled written by Gilbert Ford and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-10-24 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this unique and clever picture book, Gilbert Ford sheds a little light on everyone’s favorite sweet treat—the chocolate chip cookie—and reminds readers everywhere that just because a story is told doesn’t mean it’s true. Crunch! Crunch! Crunch! Mmmmm! Everyone loves chocolate chip cookies! But not everyone knows where they came from. Meet Ruth Wakefield, the talented chef and entrepreneur who started a restaurant, wrote a cookbook, and invented this delicious dessert. But just how did she do it, you ask? That’s where things get messy! So sit back and grab a cookie to read a story—or three—about how this round, crispy, chocolatey piece of perfection came to be. Which tale is true? Well, what do you think?