Cookie Love: More Than 60 Recipes and Techniques for Turning the Ordinary into the Extraordinary
By Mindy Segal and Kate Leahy
Ten Speed Press, 2015
Publisher Description
A new, edgier take on baking cookies, from a James Beard Award-winning chef and the owner of the popular Chicago restaurant, HotChocolate.
Mindy Segal is serious about cookies. And Cookie Love is your new go-to, never-fail reference for turn-out-perfectly-every-time cookie recipes. Mindy, award-winning pastry chef and self-professed “cookie nerd,” shares all of her secrets for turning classic recipes into more elevated, fun interpretations of everyone’s favorite sweet treat. From Peanut Butter Peanut Brittle Cookies and Fleur de Sel Shortbread with Vanilla Halvah, to Malted Milk Spritz and Peaches and Cream Thumbprints, Segal’s recipes are inspired and far from expected. Inside you’ll find more than sixty perfected recipes for every kind of cookie including drop cookies, bars, sandwich cookies, shortbread, thumbprints, and more, as well as the best tricks and tools of the trade and everything you need to know to build the ideal cookie pantry. A must-have for anyone looking to up their cookie-baking game, Cookie Love is a celebration of the most humble, delicious, and wonderful of baked treats.
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Recipes
Drop Cookies
- “Any Which Way But You Will Never Lose” Snickerdoodles
- Oatmeal Scotchies
- Brownie Krinkles
- Classic Chocolate Chip Cookies
- Smoky Bacon Candy Bar Cookies
- Ginger Sorghum Cookies
- Peanut Butter Peanut Brittle Cookies
- Lemon Goat-Butter Tea Cakes
- Kitchen Sink Cookies
- Jill’s Spiced Double-Chocolate Cookies
Shortbread
- Shortbread #1: Cut the Butter
- Corn Nut Cornmeal Shortbread
- Goat Butter Shortbread
- Pistachio Shortbread with Cranberry Preserves
- Leopard Print: Vanilla Bean and Chocolate Shortbread with Hot Fudge
- Shortbread #2: Cream the Butter
- Forgotten-Nut Shortbread
- Citrus and Brown Butter Shortbread
- Smoked Chocolate Sablés
Sandwich Cookies
- Fleur de Sel Shortbread with Vanilla Halvah
- The Black Sabbath
- Smoked Almond Shortbread with Orange Blossom and Raspberry Framboise
- Chocolate Pretzel Shortbread with Milk Chocolate Caramel
- Folgers Crystals with Sour Cream Gianduja
- Banilla Nillas
- Graham Cracker and Passion Fruit Whoopie Cookies
- Milanos
Egg White Cookies
- Candied Pecan Ice Cream Sandwich Cookies
- Best Friends Cookies
- Ode to the Chunky Bar
- A New Way to Think About Coconut Macaroons
Spritz + Thumbprints
- S Cookies
- Malted Milk Spritz
- Toasted Coconut Spritz
- Violet Hearts
- Ground Chocolate Spritz
- Peanut Butter Thumbprints with Starwberry Lambic Jam
- Hot Fudge Thumbprints
- Pecan Praline Thumbprints
- Peaches and Cream Thumbprints
Twice-Baked Cookies
- Julie’s Mandelbrodt
- Cheese Board Biscotti
- Chocolate Toffee Biscotti
- After-Dinner Ginger Biscotti
- Bill’s (Dog) Biscuits
Rugelach + Kolachkes
- Classic Cream Cheese Dough
- Raspberry Rose Rugelach
- Cocoa Nib Hot Fudge Rugelach
- Strawberry Rhubarb Rugelach with Oatmeal Streusel
- Fig Segals
- Cinnamon Brickle Rugelach
- Blueberry Jam Kolachkes with Orange Blossom Almonds
- Kumquat Marmalade Kolachkes with Blackberries and Black Pepper
- Honey Peach and Honeycomb Kolachkes
- Apricot and Lemon Kolachkes
- Red Wine and Ginger Pear Butter Kolachkes
Bars
- Dream Bars
- Barter Brownies
- Apple Confit Breakfast Pie Squares
- Kriek Crumble Bars
- Blondie Butterscotch Squares
- Honey Walnut Bars
Basics
- Hot Fudge
- Malted Milk Chocolate Hot Fudge
- Caramel Sauce
- Butterscotch Sauce
- Raspberry Framboise Jam
- Honey Peach Preserves
- Strawberry Lambic Jam
- Peanut Brittle
- Toffee
- Marshmallows
- Oatmeal Streusel
- Jimmies
