King Arthur Flour Cookie Companion The Essential Cookie Cookbook

Drawing on the same commitment to the home-baking community that has earned them millions of dedicated followers, the bakers at The King Arthur Flour Company guide you through hundreds of recipes, revealing the secrets to making your own mouth-watering cookies for any occasion. The bakers offer variations on the tastes, textures, and ingredients of nine essential cookie types: * Brownies * Chocolate chip cookies * Sugar cookies * Oatmeal cookies * Molasses cookies * Peanut butter cookies * Shortbread * Biscotti * Decorated cookies From whoopie pies to ladyfingers, they're all here, including the perfect chocolate chip cookie, the best chewy brownie, the highly versatile sugar cookie, and hundreds more. The King Arthur Flour Cookie Companion also includes full chapters on drop cookies, roll-out cookies, shaped cookies, batter cookies, no-bake cookies, and bars and squares. You'll find a thorough overview of the essential ingredients of cookie baking, along with step-by-step instructions and how-to drawings on the techniques that will have you creating great-looking, incredible-tasting cookies in no time. You'll also learn tips on substitutions and variations; measuring and weighing ingredients; instructions for making icings, fillings, and dips; and even advice on high-altitude baking. Recipes are enhanced with sidebars providing hints, shortcuts, troubleshooting advice, and recipe lore. Each recipe is accompanied by a complete nutritional analysis, and such baking terms as "creaming," "docking," and "folding" are fully explained. Finally, a comprehensive, illustrated chapter describes the key baking tools you'll want to have on hand. Founded in 1790, when George Washington was still president, The King Arthur Flour Company is not only the nation's oldest flour company, it is the single largest educator of bakers in the world. Employee-owned since 1996, the company conducts national baking-class tours that have provided free instruction to thousands of bakers across the country. 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. King Arthur's previous release, The King Arthur Flour Baker's Companion (2003), was selected KitchenAidR Cookbook of the Year by the James Beard Foundation and was featured in national publications, including Food and Wine and People magazine. King Arthur Flour is headquartered in Norwich, Vermont.King Arthur Flour Staff is the author of 'King Arthur Flour Cookie Companion The Essential Cookie Cookbook', published 2004 under ISBN 9780881506594 and ISBN 0881506591.