2024 the best chocolate chip cookie recipe review

Price: $27.50 - $22.51
(as of Dec 12, 2024 19:45:15 UTC - Details)

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.

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Ten Speed Press (April 7, 2015)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 296 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1607746816
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1607746812
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.45 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8.3 x 1.03 x 9.3 inches
Reviewer: Deidre512
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Bring your cookie baking skill up to a new level
Review: The title of the book "Cookie Love" perfectly captures the content of this book. Written by an experienced and award winning pastry chef, this cookbook is a creative spin on cookie recipes.The introduction provides a good explanation of Mindy Segal's background and thought process about baking. It sets the tone for how many of the recipes in the book were arrived at through experimenting with variations of ingredients or techniques. Included in many of the recipes are some suggested variations to try with the recipes for the adventurous baker looking for ideas.The recipes of the book are grouped by cookie type such as drop cookies, sandwich cookies, bars, etc. The book also includes information on where to buy some of the unusual ingredients, thoughts for consideration on what types of ingredients to stock, equipment to use, techniques to employ, and measurement conversions.While there are recipes that cookie bakers will recognize (e.g. chocolate chip cookies, snickerdoodles) the majority of the recipes in the book take a much more creative spin than what you will find in traditional cookbooks. Examples include citrus and brown butter shortbread, honey peach & honeycomb kolachkes, and smoky bacon candy bar cookies. In general, the recipes are ordered within a theme from easier to more difficult to allow you to work your way up to the more challenging recipes.The photographs in the book showcase well the ingenuity of the recipes.If your preferred baking style is to mix together standard ingredients of recipe specified amounts in a bowl and then baking according to instructions, this may not be the cookbook for you. As a cook who likes to experiment and learn, I am looking forward to embarking on some of these recipes to expand my repertoire into new cookie territory. Although I'm pretty confident in the kitchen, I plan to start with some of the easier recipes to learn how the ingredients work together and how specific techniques affects the outcome.7/3/15 Update: I made the Oatmeal Scotchies today for a pool party. They were very good - lightly crunchy and the butterscotch chips really worked well with the overall taste.

Reviewer: Mitch G
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Standard and not standard at the same time!
Review: Mindy Segal has truly wrote a great collection of recipes here, standard cookies and also cookies that you haven’t seen before. Recommend!

Reviewer: Evergreen
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Inspirational - Special Ingredients Make Special Cookies
Review: This is the most inspirational cookbook I have purchased in years. I've read through it and tried several recipes, and now many of my favorite cookie recipes seem boring and have been displaced by cookies from this book. It's been along time since I've had so much fun in the kitchen. These cookie are standouts, innovative, truly special. Many of the recipes do contain unusual ingredients. Some you'd be able to find at a regular grocery store (e.g., beer nuts, smoked almonds), and most you'd find at a high end grocery store (e.g., smoked sea salt). I did have to order some ingredients, but they've been new discoveries, and I've had a blast experimenting with (and consuming) the likes of smoked sugar, raspberry beer (lambic), and gianduja. Special ingredients make special cookies. My favorites so far are the smoked chocolate sables and PB&J thumbprints. The book inspired me to create my own cookie, which has been a smash success. Some of the recipes are quite simple, others take quite a lot of time. For some of us, the time is enjoyable - that's why it's called cookie LOVE. But whether or not you love the process, you'll love the cookies. Thank you Mindy Segal!

Reviewer: Samuel Stothers
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Excellent book but recipes are not in metric measure.
Review: I am a professional pastry chef who is researching new cookie ideas. I am extremely excited but also disappointed in this book. The cookie recipes look phenomenal and the fact that this was written by a professional made next very confident in my purchase. I was surprised however that the recipes are all in U.S. Standard measure. I, as I am sure the author, am used to metric measuring. It is much more accurate and less tedious and time consuming. I assume and understand the book was probably written to please the wider American audience, but it has left me hesitant about getting to baking since I have to convert every recipe as I go. Maybe the next time she will do her recipes in both US and metric? One can hope...

Reviewer: Cecelia Nowicki
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Easy to make
Review: Clearly written recipe with good results

Reviewer: doug kempton
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: I love this book
Review: I love this book. Yes, it's a very adventurous book and definitely not for a beginner. But that doesn't mean it deserves one star like some people are saying here. If you live in the city like I do, you shouldn't have any problems finding ingredients at local markets. I found orange blossom water and goat butter at a Middle Eastern market nearby. There are also a few more basic recipes that you might not even need to go to the store for, like the Snickerdoodles. Everything is really different and the food styling is beautiful as well. I've made a couple recipes, my favorite so far being the Brownie Krinkles- they melt in your mouth. Even though my dog ate 20 while I stepped out of the kitchen.

Reviewer: ahlesa44
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Amazing Cookies
Review: When I first got this book. I really hated the two authors. The recipes are in prose and hard to follow. They all neglect to tell you that you need to refrigerate the dough overnight at least once so it is at least a two day (and sometimes three days) affair.But after years of making these recipes, everyone thinks I am the best cookie-maker. People tell me to quit my job and become a baker. Buy this book and your friends and co-workers will love you and think are amazing too!

Reviewer: Amazon Customer
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: This was originally a present for my brother from the parents (yay Christmas) and I used to love to go home and try these recipes out. There's a lot of variety, and some go way above my level of baking! My go to is the chocolate chip cookie recipe, which is always a hit at parties/meetings. I highly recommend for those who like to bake/try new things. Certainly opened up how I think about making cookies.

Reviewer: Amazon Customer
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: This book is wonderful! To be honest I bought it because its cover looked good, but the recipes are AMAZING!BUY IT!

Reviewer: Ga Ca
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Bel libro ricco di ricette e belle illustrazioni. Ricette elaborate, non per principianti ma di sicura realizzazione, molto curate e precise.

Reviewer: Gloufy
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Love this book. So many delicious recipes. I look forward to making many of them over the Christmas period.

Reviewer: evan hughes
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Everything tried is delicious and easy. Cookies turn out looking just like the pictures. |Recipes are well written, easy to follow including methods.Tips at the back of the book are excellent also.