I received an e-copy of this book from #Netgalley for my honest review.
Anyone who loves baking cookies either for themselves, family, or friends, this would be an excellent book to get. You can feel the time and effort the author put into each recipe. What I liked the most about this book is that the author put the recipes into different categories, such as Bars, Rolled and Cut, and Drop cookies. So, no matter what kind of cookie you want to make it will be easy to find.
As someone who baked a lot with their Mom, when I was young, this book brought back wonderful memories. There are some recipes in this book that I have done with my Mom, and others I am excited to try with my Special Needs son. I will definitely add this book to my collection of cookbooks. ( )

THE COOKIE BIBLE by Rose Levy Beranbaum

Though I didn't care for the title, the author shows her culinary stuff by giving beautiful pictures of delicious cookies and the recipes and tips to make them be the best they can be.

I found many recipes that my family will enjoy, like Rose's Crescents. My family bakes a lot of holiday treats. I have found several that will be incorporated into our selection of fancy snacks.

Highly recommend.

Much gratitude to #netgalley for the complimentary copy of #thecookiebible I was under no obligation to post a review. ( )

Beranabum's new The Cookie Bible sets about establishing a comprehensive cookie compendium as she did with her Cake Bible. The book offers a wide variety of recipes for cookies, bars, and brownies, from the standard chocolate chip cookie to the tricky macaron. Detailed directions are provided for each recipe--detailed to the point of daunting, I should add. This isn't a cookbook of straightforward, fast-to-fix cookies for a family on the go. Most of the recipes are pretty labor-intensive.

Another downside for me: very few photographs. [Note: I was reading a galley so changes could still be made, but this appeared to have a finalized layout.] I really prefer my cookbooks and food magazines to have a picture for every recipe. Here, there are only a couple of photographs in each section, which is disappointing when a number of the cookies are unique. I want to know what they look like!

I have only tried one recipe so far--her take on chocolate chip cookies, which uses golden syrup. This is more of a UK ingredient but I happen to have a bottle in my cupboard, so I gave it a go. The cookies were fantastic, like the classic cookie but with a different, more complex texture. There are several more recipes I want to try, too. ( )

Is there any food that embodies “pure comfort” more so than cookies?

The smell, texture, taste of chewy, crunchy, pillowy cookies; memories of cookies clutched in toddler fists, chocolate chip smears on faces unable to wait for those melty warm cookies to cool and set. Reading this book, an unadulterated cookie heaven, was like floating in a pool of pure love.

Bar none (no pun intended) this book is the ultimate treasure trove of cookie goodness - from its beautifully clean and easy-to-follow layout, to the gorgeous full-page photos, and culminating with its incredibly complete coverage of cookie favorites, including the tried-and-true as well a whole slew of new goodies to savour.

I really liked the chapters organized by cookie style, including : rolled by hand, dropped or piped, shaped by hand, rolled and cut, holiday cookies, bar and cake cookies, meringues and candies, and a final chapter on extra specials.

For each recipe, Ingredients are provided both by weight (European style, and since I’ve started baking bread, my new favorite) and imperial/cups (North-American style).

Three food preparation options are provided for each recipe: food processor, stand mixer, and mixing by hand.

Recipes also include multiple variations, increasing the coverage of this book to cookie-loving dizzying heights.

And best of all, this book is absolutely gorgeous. Thumbing through the mouth-watering full page photos of most recipes, I found myself bookmarking so many to try so many, bookmarks became superfluous.

A few of the must-tries I noted:

🍪 Tahini cookies
🍪 Chocolate crackle cookies with almond flour
🍪 Coconut snowball kisses -mmade with decadent sweetened condensed milk, I dare you not to lick the spoon.
🍪 Chocolate phantoms - richly crunched with macadamia nuts)
🍪 Cashew comforts - crunchy and cushiony with cashews and sour cream)
🍪 Churro nuggets - donut like little nuggets with or without
creamy filling. My fellow Canadians will recognize as a delightful version of Tim-bits.
🍪 Rugelach - cream-cheese pie crust dough - the variation with apricot walnut filling looks amazing.
🍪 Biscotti Biscotti Biscotti (did I tell you I love biscotti) - candied pineapple, pecan, chocolate. I have to try the pistachio and lemon zest variation.
🍪 Bourbon balls-who needs to wait for the holidays?
🍪 For those of you like me who love caramel - chocolate and pecan pralines, or butterscotch toffee both look divine.
🍪 Dulce de leche - another of my absolute favourites - it was a treat to find this recipe here in the “special extra” section, along with lemon curd and chocolate ganache.

5 “I just adore these cookies” stars.

A very big thank you to NetGalley, the publisher, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and the author, Rose Levy Beranbaum for an advance review copy of this book. All thoughts presented are my own. ( )