Great American Cookies

In this famous and wide-ranging book, you'll find recipes for all the cookies that have made this the land of the cookie-lover. The author, a dedicated cookie-baker, has created best-ever versions of favorite traditional cookies from chocolate chip to gingerbread plus delicious home-made versions of such bakery favorites as ladyfingers and black-and-whites. Here too are treasured family recipes from all over the world, delicious cookies that grandma used to make -- butter jumbles, amaretti, shortbread, rugelach. And there are lots of wonderfully inventive cookies for special occasions, special fun or just good sugar cookie ornaments to hang from the Christmas tree; greeting card cookies for delivering a special message; and entire chapter of sandwich cookies for lunch boxes, snacks and any other time when two cookies--plus a filling--are better than one. Here too is everything you need to know about making cookies, from a discussion of ingredients and equipment to the secrets of assembly-line baking and how to store your cookies, plus notes on the best cookies for bazaars and bake sales. Included also is a short course on icing and piping, along with a simplified method that achieves wonderful results with no special equipment. The book is illustrated.