Cookie Dough Delights: More Than 150 Foolproof Recipes for Cookies, Bars, and Other Treats Made with Refrigerated Cookie Dough
Author: Camilla V Saulsbury
Chocolate chippers, lemon bars, madeleines, brownies, shortbread, thumbprints, rugelach, biscotti, mandelbrot, and fortune cookies we all love them. We love them even better when they are home-baked. The ultimate comfort food, fresh-baked cookies offer instant reassurance, consolation, and community.
One of the reasons we hesitate to bake cookies is that all too frequently we discover that we don№t have all the ingredients we need (or we don№t have enough time to bake them from scratch). Cookie Dough Delights conveniently solves both problems. Its easy recipes will tempt everyone back to the oven with an assortment of delectable home-baked cookies (and a smattering of other mouth-watering desserts), all of which begin with an 18-ounce roll of refrigerated cookie dough from the supermarket dairy case.
With little more than a few easy, simple steps, the ordinary can be transformed into the extraordinary. Using refrigerated cookie dough is not about abandoning traditional cookie and dessert recipes; it is a celebration of the options available to bakers today. The ease of working with refrigerated cookie dough also helps bakers of all abilities to focus on the aesthetics of cookies and desserts including fancy decorations and icings if they so choose. Recipes include drop cookies, formed and fancy-shaped cookies, bar cookies, filled cookies, special treats, icings, frostings, fillings, and other extras.
New York Daily News
Just because the weather's warm doesn't mean our appetite for cookies wanes. And in a new book, "Cookie Dough Delights" Camilla V. Saulsbury shares more than 150 recipes for using refrigerated cookie dough to make bars, tarts, spirals, chippers, pies and fruit squares.This is a nearly foolproof way to end up with a great dessert for a picnic, barbecue or alfresco dinner party. There's no time- consuming prep in a hot kitchen, no laborious creaming of ingredients and chopping of nuts and fruit. Instead, you pick up a roll of dough, be it for sugar cookies or chocolate-chip cookies, and let it double as everything from a pie crust to a shortcake base.
One especially nice feature of refrigerated cookie dough is that the eggs it contains are pasteurized. So if you've got cookie monsters in the house who insist on eating dough no matter how many times you plead with them not to, these doughs are the way to go, at least till the kids are old enough to understand the dangers of salmonella!
My cookie monsters loved the four-ingredient "Chubby Rocky Road Bars" and the "Fast and Fudgy Mini Tarts," made with sugar-cookie dough, chocolate chips, sweetened condensed milk and vanilla extract. There's even a recipe for cookie tiramisu, made with sugar-cookie dough, cream cheese, coffee, rum and whipped cream.
Boston Herald
… as we paged through Camilla V. Saulsbury's ``Cookie Dough Delights'' (Cumberland House, 2004), we found ourselves first intrigued, then hooked. Many of the recipes are unexpectedly sophisticated (ginger-lime biscotti, anyone?), and, except for the cookie dough, Saulsbury uses few processed ingredients. You probably could pass these babies off as from-scratch - just hide the wrappers from the dough logs.
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Healthy Cooking for Kids: Building Blocks for a Lifetime of Good Nutrition
Author: Shelly Null
Our children are overfed and undernourished. Even if they are not living on pizza and ice cream, they may be eating foods that can have serious long-term effects on their health. An ever-growing body of research is revealing that the major diseases Americans suffer and die from are lifestyle related and to an extent preventable in that some of the root causes begin in childhood. Many cases of childhood imbalances, such as obesity, hyperactivity, dental problems, and learning disabilities can be aggravated by poor eating habits. Shelly Null has written a comprehensive guide to feeding children better, from the crib to young adulthood, without sacrificing flavor or fun.
What People Are Saying
Gary Null
I set very high standards for myself, and my daughter has set equally high standards for herself. I'm very proud of her achievements. This book is sure to have a positive impact and will be around for a long time.
—Gary Null, author of The Vegetarian Handbook and Good Food Good Mood
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