Cookie Love: More Than 60 Recipes and Techniques for Turning the Ordinary into the Extraordinary [A Baking Book] [Hardcover]

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.INTRODUCTION: TOUGH LOVE

CHAPTER 1: DROP COOKIES

CHAPTER 2: SHORTBREAD

CHAPTER 3: SANDWICH COOKIES

CHAPTER 4: EGG WHITE COOKIES

CHAPTER 5: SPRITZ + THUMBPRINTS

CHAPTER 6: TWICE-BAKED COOKIES

CHAPTER 7: RUGELACH + KOLACHKES

CHAPTER 8: BARS

CHAPTER 9: BASICSPastry creator MINDY SEGAL specializes in contemporary American cuisine, putting a modern twist on traditional classics. The James Beard Foundation nominated her for Outstanding Pastry Chef in the country five years in a row, and she was awarded the title in 2012. She has been featured in the New York Timesl“\