Cookies

Snowmen Faces Cookies
Snowmen Faces Cookies

Snowmen Faces Cookies, excerpted from Christmas Cookies: More than 60 recipes for adorable festive bakes by Hannah Miles (Ryland Peters & Small). Photography by Steve Painter.

Christmas Cookies

There is nothing as cozy as a day spent baking in the holiday season—filling the house with the scent of warm, sweet dough and producing delicious treats that raise a smile even before a single bite is taken out of them!

The book features tips on how to host your Christmas “cookie exchange” from clever ways to display bakes to sending out fun invitations, plus packaging ideas for gifting home-baked treats.

Decorating hints and tips and basic recipes follow, providing information on all the tools you need to bake more than 60 different cookies, from Jolly Santas, Snowmen Faces, Coconut Snowballs, Frosted Fir Cones, and Hot Chocolate Cookie Cups to Reindeer Pretzel Cookies and Meringue Snowmen.

A joyous collection of seasonal baking recipes for all the family to enjoy.

Christmas Cookies: More than 60 recipes for adorable festive bakes is available at Amazon.com and Indigo.ca. (more…)

Cookbook Review: Toronto Eats

The farms, forests, and lakes that surround Toronto are invaluable resources for local and sustainable ingredients (and a good bit of foraging, too). Think wood-nettle spätzle or slow-cooked chicken with fresh corn pudding. Toronto is a city that likes to cheer on its sports teams with one-handed party food, and that’s where homemade pizzas, fried chicken and fish tacos come in handy.

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Cookbook Review: Dorie’s Cookies

Over the course of her baking career, Dorie Greenspan has created more than 300 cookie recipes. Yet she has never written a book about them—until now. To merit her “three purple stars of approval,” every cookie had to be so special that it begged to be made again and again. Cookies for every taste and occasion are here. Ms. Greenspan pays great attention to detail. There are over 500 pages filled with recipes, tips, techniques and notes on gear and ingredients.

The author offers up treats like Portofignos, with chocolate dough and port-soaked figs, and lunch-box Blueberry Buttermilk Pie Bars. They Might Be Breakfast Cookies are packed with raisins, dried apples, dried cranberries, and oats, while Almond Crackle Cookies have just three ingredients. (more…)