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Do you have a favorite Christmas cookie? Is it made of chocolate or spice? Is it an iced and decorated sugar cookie or a molasses ginger round? Or maybe it's a crisp, chocolate-covered toffee bar or a jam-filled Linzer sandwich cookie. There are so many choices!. Christmas cookies are loved for their special shapes, cheery colors, and seasonal flavors. They bring joy to our gatherings, help preserve the magic and tradition of the holiday season, and make heart-warming gifts. Christmas Cookies offers fifty wonderful recipes for holiday treats, such as light-as-air Cocoa Meringue Kisses, Chocolate Peppermint Cookies that perfectly complement a mug of hot chocolate, sweet-tart Iced Lemon Rounds, the much-beloved classic Pecan Sandies, Ginger Coins with the right amount of snap, and many, many more. Avid holiday baker Lisa Zwirn baked hundreds of cookies to come up with these fabulous fifty recipes. There is something for everyone: treats for chocoholics, hol­iday shapes that children will love (that can be baked and decorated by the little ones, too), luxurious sandwich cookies, and plenty of spiced rounds, buttery wafers, and decadent bars. Christmas Cookies will also show you how to make the most of your time in the kitchen with these useful tips and ideas:.:.; Cookie baking guidelines for successful baking.; Options for freezing dough so you can bake cookies when the mood strikes.; Storage suggestions to help keep treats fresh for as long as possible.; Child-friendly recipes, such as Peanut Butter Chocolate Kisses, Chocolate Caramel Thumbprints, Gingerbread People, and Molasses Ginger Cookies, which are easy and fun for beginners.; The best cookies to mail and how to wrap them.; How to host a holiday cookie swap and cookie-decorating party. Whether you've baked Christmas cookies for years or are just starting a tradition of holiday baking, you'll find all the recipes you need right here. Christmas Cookies is an essential collection for the cookie ba more...

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The biggest mobile cookbook in the world. With over 1000 recipes. you are guaranteed to never run out of ideas!. Audience. Intended for everyone. No previous experience is necessary. Features.:.; Detailed explanations of each recipe.; National and Ethnic Cuisines.; Special Diets.; Be prepared for your special guest.; Easy and fast viewing.; Always have the cookbook available for a new idea.; Designed for optimal navigation on PDA, Smartphone, Tablet, and desktop devices.; Formatted to display on all electronic devices including Smartphones and Mobile Devices with a small display.; Search function.; Navigate from Table of Contents or read page by page.; Add Bookmarks.; Text annotation and mark-up.; Automatic synchronization between the handheld and the desktop PC. You. could read half of the book on the handheld, then finish reading on the desktop. Annotations are also synchronized. FREE Breakfast Recipes. Breads: Cardamom Bread | Chipped Beef on Toast | French Toast. | Pumpkin Bread | Toast. Eggs : Fried Eggs | Cottage Cheese Eggs | Not Quite Eggs Benedict. | Scrambled Eggs | Southwestern Scramble | Soft Boiled Eggs | Hard Boiled Eggs. | Breakfast Burrito. Hot Cereal: Hominy Grits | Porridge (oatmeal) | Beer Bread. Muffins : Apple Streusel Muffins | Banana Chip Muffins | Banana. Nut Muffins | Bran Muffins | Chunky Cran Apple Bran Muffins | Corn Muffins |. Oatmeal Muffins | Orange Chocolate Chip Muffins | Raisin Oatmeal Muffins. Omelets : Basic Omelet | Bacon Cheese Omelet | Potato Omelet. | French Omelette | Denver Omelet | Spanish Omelet. Pancakes : Banana-Spirulina Pancakes | Bliny | Crepe | Pancakes. | Vegan Pancakes | Cottage Cheese Pancakes | Ray's Beloved Blueberry Pancakes. Odds and Ends : Breakfast Waffles | Gluten-Free Breakfast Waffles. | Grand Union Bacon | Vegetarian "Bacon" Gravy over Biscuits | Hash Browns |. Slinger | English Breakfast. Table of Contents. List of Recipes: Breakfast | Meat | Pasta | Rice | Salads. | Seafood | Vegan | Vegetarian | Holid more...

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From Fairway Market's master buyer and author of the hugely successful Cheese Primer comes a celebration of the store's extravagant food collection and the stories surrounding its culture. Fairway, a local institution in New York City for more than fifty years, is the busiest food store in the world. There shoppers can find innumerable artisanal food products, which, for three decades, Steven Jenkins has traveled the world to find. With a wonderful narrative and anecdotes from the man who personally brought so many of the world's greatest foods to New York and the United States, readers will become more enthusiastic shoppers and better cooks. Jenkins's longtime associate, Mitchel London, provides recipes that will attract not only Fairway customers but any home cook who has access to great ingredients. more...

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Here is a book that no self-respecting cookie-lover can resist. The Good Cookie shares a fresh and tantalizing selection of 250 recipes from around the world - complete with expert instruction on how to make them. From rugged Cranberry Orange Nut Bars and irresistible Bittersweet Chocolate Biscotti to sophisticated Chocolate-Filled Almond Hearts, readers bake their way through basic drop cookies, beautiful hand-formed cookies, delectable sandwich cookies, complex decorator cookies, and more. more...

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“Possibly the best such bread book on the market . . . every recipe a winner.” Jane BrodyWith more than 250 sweet-and-savory recipes, easy-to-follow, step-by-step techniques for mixing and kneading, and special hints for working with whole grains, Great Whole Grain Breads should find a place in every baker’s kitchen. more...

Price: $57.00