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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The eagerly anticipated baking bible from America's most respected authority: 100+ recipes for cookies, cakes, breads, breakfast pastries, and much more.

A Best Book of the Year: NPR, Los Angeles Times, Epicurious

"Nancy Silverton baked a brioche so perfect that it brought Julia Child to tears...Nancy showed us how to strip away the extras and spotlight the essentials. She’s still doing that and we’re all still learning from her." —Dorie Greenspan, author of Dorie's Cookies

Nancy Silverton made her reputation as the original pastry chef for Wolfgang Puck's restaurant Spago. Biting into a particularly delicious peanut butter cookie one day, she and had an epiphany: every single thing we bake should taste this good. And so she decided to return to her roots, and set to work perfecting the rest of the American baking canon.

From Lattice-Topped Apple Pie to Carrot Cake with Brown Butter Cream Cheese Frosting (the secret? Carrot puree) to Cornbread (is it too much to ask that it actually taste like corn?), she shares recipes for the platonic ideals of our most beloved baked goods.

Alongside the classics—Lemon Bars, Key Lime Pie, Layered Buttermilk Biscuits—Silverton includes a handful of her own inventions: Double-Decker Chocolate Cookies (double the fun!), Iced Raisin Bars (a better fig newton), and Chocolate Brandy Cake (chocolate and brandy!)—all sure to become future classics. With more than a hundred perfected recipes, The Cookie That Changed My Life is a veritable encyclopedia of the very best things to bake.

From the Publisher

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Knopf (November 14, 2023)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 512 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0593321669
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0593321669
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 3.75 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8.49 x 1.29 x 9.57 inches
Reviewer: D. Lyons
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Love this book
Review: Very detailed. Great recipes. Interesting cooking techniques and information!

Reviewer: Lulu and Phoebe
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Appreciating a New Take on Old Favorites
Review: After skimming through the book of course I zipped right over to the peanut butter cookies. I ordered the correct peanuts (already roasted to save a step) and the flour. I am a decent (most of the time) baker. I understood that Nancy was trying to make my experience turn out successful by making the instructions so detailed. With any new recipe I am making half batches to make sure I get it right and also to see if I like the result. The peanut butter cookies take a little time to make but the result was outstanding. Chewy, crunchy, full of flavor and perfectly sweet but not overly so. I like details in baking books because they take you through the process the author has created. Once you have it down, then it's time to riff if you like. However, so far I wouldn't change a thing. I'm on to the next cookie. I'm happy with the book - unlike a lot of other cookbooks where I read them and shelve them, this one already has food splatters and hasn't seen a shelf yet and probably won't. About the only thing I'd change (and authors almost never get a say in this one) is to shorten up the title - a whole paragraph title is almost amusing but also useless. I just call it my Nancy book. That works. Looking forward to many more tasty treats from this one. Rye flour arrived so chocolate chunk cookies are next.

Reviewer: mwmama
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Not for the home cook
Review: This book exemplifies the difference between a home baker and a professional one. I'm an enthusiastic home baker who has baked versions of many items in this book -- poundcake, brownies, cornbread, etc. The difference is that Nancy's recipes require more steps, sometimes many more. Which means a lot more time. When I get home at 6pm to feed the hungry hordes and want cornbread to go with the chili in the crockpot, I'm not going to brown the butter, roast the cornmeal, cut fresh corn from the cob and press it thru a sieve. I'm going to make the recipe on the bag of cornmeal. 30 minutes and dinner is on the table. Everybody happy. I'm sure many of these recipes are indeed delicious, but I don't see myself using them much.

Reviewer: Shelley Longmuir
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: A fabulous cookbook with the most explicit directions for an amateur home cook
Review: Truly many craveable cookie recipes within these covers. The intro section with guidance on useful cooking tools was superb. (Got and love my commercial grade cookie sheets with rolled edges (Saffron & Sage) and a phenomenal microplaner (Zeiss). Not sure how I lived without them! A marvelous cookbook on so many levels - visually the photos are amazing, and the recipes divine. (Don’t miss the Chewy Ginger Cookies or the Maple Pecan Butter Cookies!)

Reviewer: Chloe Todd
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: A Gorgeous Cookbook!
Review: I like especially this cookbook because she has an entire section on ingredients. What flour she uses, what brand and type of vanilla, what brand of cocoa powder. Seriously, she explains how important using high quality ingredients is so important for the desired results. This has more than desserts and cookies. I’m looking forward to making her granola recipe. She’s an iconic chef and she’s written a cookbook of that same caliber. Buy two, one to keep and one to give to the gourmet cook in your life.

Reviewer: Margaret S
Rating: 1.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Absurd recipes for the novice baker
Review: I saw this recommendation in a food and wine magazine, and with a title like that, I figured I had to have it. Who doesn’t want a cookie that changed their life? But upon reading the intro, the cookie that changed Nancy Silverton‘s life was just because she decided to make a cookbook based off of how she remade a cookie recipe to be so ridiculously complicated and nuanced that she thought it was the best. I really tried to give this recipe book a worthwhile shot. I read through several recipes. Many recipes. I thought “ok cinnamon rolls will be a safe bet”Nope. Too complicated. Cake yeast? What and where do I get that? And powdered milk? Cmon.The apricot thumbprint cookies called for hard boiled egg yolks to be microplaned in the dough. I cannot.Banana bread! Nope, no way, the banana bread has poppyseeds in it. Go away. (I have nothing against poppyseeds but stay in your lemon lane,)I go to professional bakeries to get fancy things I can’t make at home. But when I want something at home, I don’t want have to get three different kinds of flour, two different kinds of yogurt or milk and extra large eggs. Who buys extra large eggs? The average home in America buys large eggs.it felt so unnecessary to complicate recipes like this. I do admit, I returned it without even trying a single recipe because I was not going to waste hours of my time.

Reviewer: Jonathan A. Pierce
Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Very detailed
Review: The recipes are incredibly detailed and utilize gram weight measures which is very helpful. You can also tell the recipes are fully tested which is important in duplicating results. The photographs in the book are quite dull for a cookbook though.

Reviewer: Mammy
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: The Most Amazing Book!!!!!
Review: I found Nancy’s Book to be INCREDIBLE!!!!! She explains everything so beautifully through out each recipe! Very easy to understand, I’ve been baking for Years, I have mostly all of her cookbooks, I Love her books so much, even better than Dorie’s!!! I think it’s wonderful!!

Reviewer: Philip
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Lots of fun recipes, some require usual ingredients.

Reviewer: Amazon Customer
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: The cookie that changed MY life was baked by Nancy Silverton when she used to cater parties at an art gallery I worked in on La Brea Blvd in LA. Nancy was the alchemist at Campanile and La Brea Bakery down the street. Sheets and sheets of paper thin, golden butter cookies with sprinkles used to be passed around on enormous cookie sheets, so delicious, I’ve dreamt of them ever since. I have several of Nancy’s cook books, they are accessible and to the point. This book gives a brief background to each recipe and there are many beautiful photographs. I’m looking forward to baking my way through it!