Product Description

The cookie book thousands of us grew up with–back by popular demand!

At last, the most requested out-of-print book in Betty Crocker history is available once again–in this authentic reproduction of the beloved 1963 edition of Betty Crocker’s® Cooky Book. An entire generation grew up learning to bake from this book. Now they can share it with their own kids and grandkids. Packed with more than 450 all-time favorite cookie recipes, it includes everything from the most basic drop, bar, and rolled cookies to more elaborate cookies and confections suitable for holidays and entertaining. A separate "Cooky Primer" chapter shares handy tips on baking utensils, measuring ingredients, cookie storage, and more. Complete with dozens of nostalgic color photographs, charming how-to illustrations, and decorative sketches, this timeless book is sure to please existing fans while gaining the loyalty of a brand new audience. Brimming with recipes that are as oven-fresh today as they were nearly forty years ago, it’s a wonderful and winning encore from Betty Crocker.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #49072 in Books
• Brand: Back to Basics Toys
• Published on: 2002-08-02
• Format: Facsimile
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 2.00 pounds
• Binding: Spiral-bound
• 160 pages

From the Back Cover
Here is the complete cooky book–more than 450 recipes, dozens of appetizing full-color photographs, and many how-to-do-it sketches. This treasury of cooky baking embraces all tastes–from the old-fashioned and traditional to the new and sophisticated. Plus a large section devoted entirely to holiday cookies. Fun to use. . .perfect to give.

Here's the classic treasury of cookie baking that so many people grew up with: the beloved 1963 edition of Betty Crocker's Cooky Book, now in a brand-new, authentic facsimile of the original book.

Remember baking cookies with Mom or Grandma when you were a kid? The wonderful smell, the spatulas to lick and, best of all, delicious cookies you'd helped to make yourself? If you grew up baking with Betty Crocker, then you probably had this book, filled with all your favorites–from Chewy Molasses Cookies to Chocolate Crinkles to Toffee Squares and many more!

Now, with this authentic reproduction of the original 1963 edition, you can relive those moments, taste the cookies you grew up with and share them with your loved ones. All the charm of the original and all the great recipes are here. Turn to Betty Crocker's Cooky Book to find:

• An authentic facsimile of the classic 1963 edition packed with all your favorite cookie recipes
• Over 450 recipes, dozens of nostalgic color photographs and charming how-to sketches
• Scrumptious recipes for Holiday Cookies (dozens of Christmas specialties), Family Favorites (for lunchtime, snacktime, anytime), Company Best Cookies (fancy enough for company) and much more

This book is a great gift for new and experienced bakers alike. Only one family copy of this favorite cookbook? Now everyone can have a copy of this classic book!

Customer Reviews

Tins filled with cookies.
Each year at Christmas my grandmother would take out about 20 (it seemed) cookie tins and bake until each and every one of those tins were filled with cookies during the winter months and especially near Christmas.

This is also the "cooky" book we had as children. I fondly remember spending hours just looking through this book and wishing the cookies I wanted to make would magically appear on a plate. Soon, I was old enough to cook the Peanut butter Cookies, Russian Teacakes and Candy Cane Cookies. My favorite page as a child was page 56. A page filled with storybook cookies. Painted and iced sugar cookies.

The contents include:

Drop, Bar, Refrigerator, Rolled, Pressed and Molded Cookies.

Holiday Cookies for Valentine's Day, St. Patricks's Day, Easter, Halloween and Christmas.

Cookies for Children, Lunchbox treats, Cookies that will travel, Heritage cookies, Cookies for Special Diets.

Brownies, Date Bars, Ginger Cookies, Cookies made from mixes

Teatime Cookies, Cookies for a Crowd, Confections

Best Cookies

In this cookbook, they say you can use either the traditional or the sifting method. We always used the traditional dip and sweep method for measuring the flour. Then, on the next page they explain why your cookie dough might be too soft. I've always found this rather amusing, since you see...if you use the sifting method, you will possibly not have enough flour, at least in my mind. Most cookbooks say to use one OR the
other method.

Some of the cookies you might enjoy:

Old-Fashioned Oatmeal Cookies
Butterscotch Brownies
Holiday Spritz
Snickerdoodles
Christmas Bells
Cream Wafers
Nougat Bars

Definitely a collectable Betty Crocker Cookbook.

~The Rebecca Review

The Only One You'll Need
My mom gave me her copy of Betty Crocker's Cooky Book when I got married. The book is literally falling apart -- the back cover is no longer attached, but still sits in the bookshelf next to the rest of the book.

This would make a wonderful gift for anyone who likes to bake. It's full of great recipes, some of which I've made so many times that I know them by heart.

If you like to bake cookies, buy this book. You won't be disappointed!

At last! Finally! At last!
The Cooky Book should never, ever, EVER be out of print. It's a classic and belongs on the shelf with The Joy of Cooking. When I was a kid, and everyone was poor, we had a friend who baked cookies every Christmas and showed up with a big box for my sister and me. We thought it was the best present we had ever received and waited with bated breath for each year's box. When The Cooky Book was published, there were our favorite recipes: date bars (by far the best recipe I've ever found), Mexican Wedding Cakes/Russian tea cakes, Chocolate Crinkles, Lemon Squares, Snickerdoodles. . . the list goes on and on and on.

So I've put in my order for the children who now have children of their own. With luck, they may start their own traditions.