Product Description

• 450 fantastic cookie recipes, from tried-and-true classics to unbeatable brownies to fabulous favorites that span the globe.
• Enticing color photos of cookies on every spread.
• Storage instructions are included for every recipe.
• Prep, Chill, Bake, and Stand times are highlighted for each recipe.
• Bonus chapters: Our Holiday Best and Quick Candies.
• Chapter divider pages include feature text.
• Full-color baking and decorating guide filled with ingredient information, tips, and techniques from the Better Homes and Gardens Test Kitchen.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #384762 in Books
• Brand: Cookbook
• Published on: 2007-10-22
• Released on: 2007-10-02
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 480 pages

Customer Reviews

Almost any cookie recipe you could ever want.
Better Homes and Gardens cookbooks are always exceptional, and so is the Ultimate Cookie Book. There's a great selection of standards, exotic and fancy cookies, and even some candy recipes like fudge and peanut brittle.

I especially liked the special baking tips and tools guide in the front. They even tell you where to get unusual ingredients like edible cookie glitter.

The instructions were quite detailed, and at least half the recipes had nice color photos so you could see the effects of their cookie decorating.

There were a couple of specific cookie recipes I was looking for that were not in the book, but they're not in any other cookbook I have seen, either. I wanted a recipe for those gourmet brownie cookies that you can buy in the shopping malls, and a recipe for chocolate cookies with creamy crushed peppermint candy filling for Christmas. Although these were missing, there were still recipes in there that were close. So I could probably improvise and figure out a recipe eventually.

Overall, I would say this book is a very good buy.

Great recipes but many are repeats...
Basically this book is just an updated version of "Biggest Book of Cookies: 475 All-Time Favorites (Better Homes & Gardens) by Better Homes and Gardens (Plastic Comb - Aug 15, 2003)" which I already had. There are a few new recipes and the color pictures are wonderful but I am glad I just borrowed it from the library. Don't get me wrong, the recipes are great and scrumptious, and a great purchase if you don't own the other. Either book is a very nice gift for your baking friends.

The cookie bible !!!
This book has become my bible for new cookies. There are so many to choose from and one is better than the next. Great pictures, easy directions.