The Essential Cookie Cookbook

Drawing on the same commitment to the home-baking community that has earned them hundreds of thousands of dedicated followers, the bakers at King Arthur Flour guide you through hundreds of recipes, revealing the secrets to making your own mouthwatering cookies for any occasion.

The bakers begin by singling out the “Nine Essential Cookies” and variations that reflect a variety of tastes, textures, and ingredients:
• brownies
• sugar cookies
• chocolate chip cookies
• shortbread
• oatmeal cookies
• peanut butter cookies
• molasses-ginger cookies
• biscotti
• decorated cookies

From whoopie pies to ladyfingers, it's all here in one place. The King Arthur Flour Cookie Companion includes full chapters on drop cookies, roll-out cookies, shaped cookies, batter cookies, no-bake cookies, and bars and squares.

You'll find complete instructions for making cookie icings, fillings, and dips. You'll find a thorough overview of the essential ingredients of cookie baking, explaining the chemistry of flours and grains, leavens, sweeteners, fats, dairy products, flavorings, and the science of how these ingredients work together. You'll also learn tips on substitutions and variations; measuring and weighing ingredients; even advice on high-altitude baking. Recipes are enhanced with sidebars providing hints, shortcuts, troubleshooting advice, and recipe lore. And each recipe is accompanied by a complete nutritional analysis. Illustrations throughout the book provide clear step-by-step instructions that take the mystery out of such baking terms as “creaming,” “soft-ball stage,” and “folding.” Finally, a comprehensive illustrated chapter describes the essential baking tools you'll want to have on hand.

King Arthur Flour is the largest single educator of bakers in the world. Employee owned since 1996, the company conducts a yearly national baking class tour that has provided free baking classes to many thousands of bakers across the U.S. The company also publishes a newsletter of recipes and baking information, The Baking Sheet. The Baker's Catalogue, a wholly owned subsidiary, sponsors an online baking forum, The Baking Circle, on its parent company's Web site, www.kingarthurflour.com. The company's 2003 release, The King Arthur Flour Baker's Companion, was selected as one of the best cookbooks of the year by Food & Wine, People, and many other national publications. All the bakers at King Arthur Flour work from their 12-sided post-and-beam headquarters in Norwich, Vermont.

AVAILABLE NOVEMBER 2004

$29.95 (Can. $44.00)
0-88150-659-1
October 2004
8 x 10, 400 pages (est.), Hardcover, 24 color pages
150 line black & white illustrations, Index