2024 the best recipe for brownies review

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Is there anything more irresistible than a warm, gooey cookie just out of the oven or a freshly baked, fudgy brownie? This cookbook features 300 mouthwatering recipes for beginner bakers and expert chefs alike. You will satisfy your cookie and brownie cravings with creative recipes, including:
Coconut Praline BarsTiramisu BrowniesRussian Chai Tea CakesKey Lime CutoutsChocolate Mint Whoopie PiesOrange Date Pinwheels
Features chapters specific to food allergies, gift giving, international cookies, and helpful shipping tips. With easy-to-follow, step-by-step instructions for fun and easy baking, this is the ultimate cookbook for delicious and tempting treats!

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Everything (September 18, 2009)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 304 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1605501255
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1605501253
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.2 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8 x 0.9 x 10 inches
Reviewer: A. Florenzano
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Whether a novice or experienced cookie baker, you will find lots to like in this practical, comprehensive cook book.
Review: This is the time of year when the thoughts of novice and experienced cooks alike turn to baking fragrant, warm-from-the-oven, delicious cookies. But between the favorite family recipes and the thousands of cookie recipes online - let's face it - who needs another cookbook? The answer is, we all do, as long as it's the Everything Cookies and Brownies Cookbook by Marye Audet.Though I am no domestic goddess, I have made my share of cookies over the years, and even I got a generous measure of good advice and new understanding in this cookbook of 300 cookie recipes. I tried three recipes, new to me: Cranberry Walnut Blondies, Whoopie Pies and Maple Snickerdoodles. I had outstanding, delicious success with all three, and I do believe the Whoopie Pies are my new favorite.The Cookie Baking Basics in Chapter 1 are a must-read. Simple and helpful, there was information that I wish I had learned when I started out baking. Especially for a novice baker, the explanations of common cookie ingredients and techniques are confidence and success builders for all the recipes to come. Marye Audet includes short comments before each recipe, and sprinkles little facts throughout the book that enrich the recipes; which cookies freeze the best, this recipe is good for making with children, that is how to wrap cookies for shipping. There's also lots of advice on how to achieve lively variations of the cookies. Just as Julie Powell felt Julia Child's presence as she cooked through Mastering the Art of French Cooking, you can feel the warm and experienced presence of Marye Audet over your shoulder when you bake cookies from this book.All the recipes I tried were clearly laid out and the results perfect. The Cranberry Walnut Blondies were simple, and delicious. I haven't made Snickerdoodles for years, but was intrigued by Marye's Maple version, which were subtle and marvelous. Finally, I made the Whoopie Pies, which was as easy as...pie. The Cream Filling was very unusual to make, microwaving milk and flour to make a paste, refrigerating it, and later beating it with other ingredients until it gets "light and airy" and doubles in volume. I was very skeptical of the gluey milk and flour, but sure enough, it magically turned into a fluffy filling, perfect between the cake-like chocolate cookies. I wanted them to keep for a while, so I wrapped them individually and froze them as was suggested, and they were absolutely fantastic. As much as I enjoyed them, they were also a big hit with my son's university roommates.My only complaint of the book is that the index is far less helpful than it could be. That is a small negligence, however, in what is a very fine and useful cookbook. Donna Hay, who for a while wrote The Cookbook Critic blog, said that, "the main problem with most books is the description of HOW. How to prep the ingredients, how to assemble them, how to brown or broil or sauté -- the problem is very often a faulty description of HOW." The How, the Why and the Even More is clearly laid out in The Everything Cookies and Brownies cookbook, and the result is Delicious.

Reviewer: Sammy Madison
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: A Truly Worthwhile Cookie Book!
Review: This book is jam-packed with lots of recipes. A few are of the dreaded "cake mix" variety, which, ugh. But most are real, made-from-scratch recipes. I've marked a whole bunch I want to try. This is not a given, usually I only find a few recipes that strike me as worth trying in a cookbook, and out of those, I'm happy if any are worth adding to my permanent recipe collection. I know this sounds kind of stuck-up, but I like the good old basic cookie recipes my mom used to make, and it takes something special to get into the cookie rotation at our house. I've already found two superior versions of old standards in this book, which have replaced the recipes I used to use regularly. I might just like this book as much as my old favorite goldmine of cookie recipes, The Joy of Cooking All About Cookies.

Reviewer: Cookie
Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Inspirational ideas. Recipes may require adjustments.
Review: Over the past 20-years I've baked more than six thousand pounds of cookies. I am constantly searching for new recipes to add to my repertoire. To this end, the Everything Cookies and Brownies provided a recipe for maple snickerdoodles. However, my experience as a self trained baker suggested that this recipe would not give me either the result or quantity that I desired. With the concept of a snickerdoodle partially sweetendd with maple sugar, I created a maple and pecan snickerdoodle. The cookie is sweetened with equal parts granulated sugar and maple sugar and fineley ground toasted pecans are added to the dough. After the dough is portioned, I roll the balls in a mixture of maple sugar and cinnamon and then bake. I've received positive feedback from friends.

Reviewer: JennyHartin
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: It really is the EVERYTHING cookie and brownies cookbook.
Review: I love this collection of recipes. Two of my favorites the maple snickerdoodles and the pecan pie bars - so good! It is a perfect collection of recipes for the beginning baker, mom who wants to treat her kids and even someone like me - who I would say is an advanced baker - to have these at my fingertips is wonderful. Yes, there are fancier baking books out there (and I have those too) but this is an all around great compilation - including some gluten-free recipes.

Reviewer: Dana
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Fantastic!
Review: Excellent. One of the best compilations of cookie/bar recipes EVER. Great variety using simple, everyday ingredients. Wonderful international recipes included. Loved it.

Reviewer: L. Didonato
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Great Book!!!
Review: This book is awesome, I have made several recipes from it already, and I was not disappointed. If you love to bake like I do, order this book!

Reviewer: Rae Xu
Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Didn't favor this book
Review: There's no pictures inside. And that's why I didn't try any of the recipes. I'm a visual person I think.

Reviewer: Maggie
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: great gift
Review: I got this as a gift to go along with a cookie jar, my friends really liked their gift! thanks

Reviewer: AN
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: É um excelente livro para quem tem noção de inglês. Gostaria que lançassem livros traduzidos para o português. Mas enquanto isto não acontece , este livro supre bem a falta de livros de receitas de cookies e brownies.

Reviewer: Zoe
Rating: 2.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Not many pictures and the measurements are in cups. Disappointed.