Product Description

Chocolate chippers, lemon bars, madeleines, brownies, shortbread, thumbprints, rugelach, biscotti, mandelbrot, and fortune cookies we all love them. We love them even better when they are home-baked. The ultimate comfort food, fresh-baked cookies offer instant reassurance, consolation, and community.

One of the reasons we hesitate to bake cookies is that all too frequently we discover that we don¹t have all the ingredients we need (or we don¹t have enough time to bake them from scratch). Cookie Dough Delights conveniently solves both problems. Its easy recipes will tempt everyone back to the oven with an assortment of delectable home-baked cookies (and a smattering of other mouth-watering desserts), all of which begin with an 18-ounce roll of refrigerated cookie dough from the supermarket dairy case.

With little more than a few easy, simple steps, the ordinary can be transformed into the extraordinary. Using refrigerated cookie dough is not about abandoning traditional cookie and dessert recipes; it is a celebration of the options available to bakers today. The ease of working with refrigerated cookie dough also helps bakers of all abilities to focus on the aesthetics of cookies and desserts including fancy decorations and icings if they so choose. Recipes include drop cookies, formed and fancy-shaped cookies, bar cookies, filled cookies, special treats, icings, frostings, fillings, and other extras.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #666522 in Books
• Published on: 2004-05
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 240 pages

Review
"...seems like homemade--although it's much less trouble...adults will probably like…these cookies as much as the kids." -- St. Louis Post-Dispatch (Missouri) July 14, 2004

"Cookie Dough Delights will change your outlook...ideal to turn to when you need quick cookies..." -- St. Petersburg Times (Florida), July 14, 2004

...a nearly foolproof way to end up with a great dessert for a picnic, barbecue or alfresco dinner party. -- New York Daily News 6/23/04

...as we paged through...we found ourselves first intrigued, then hooked. Many of the recipes are unexpectedly sophisticated... -- Boston Herald 6/9/04

About the Author
Camilla Saulsbury is a graduate of Bryn Mawr College. A doctoral student in the department of sociology at Indiana University, she is a food scholar and freelance food writer.

Camilla Saulsbury is a freelance food writer, cooking instructor, and author of multiple cookbooks. Her work has appeared in major publications including Better Homes and Gardens, Cooking Light, and Vegetarian Times. She has been featured on QVC and Today on NBC, and has also made multiple appearances on the Food Network. Saulsbury is the brand ambassador for Pepperidge Farm Puff Pastry and has recently served as spokesperson for Pillsbury baking mixes. She lives in Texas with her husband and son.

Customer Reviews

All around fabulous
Kudos! Great book, especially for the occasional baker. I love love love the lemon ginger gems (soft, you add crystallized ginger 1 package 3-ounce cream cheese, lemon zest to sugar dough). I like more innovative cookeis like that and the coffee toffee bars and pretty much all of the cheesecake creations throughout the book. The rest of the gang in my house can't get enough of some of the simpler ideas (my husband can vouch for the fluffer nutter choc chip cookie sandwiches: peanut butter and marshmallow fluff sandwiched between chocolate chip cookies--so easy and so YUMMY!) and the big cookies you can make and decorate like a pizza--big kid favorite.

Hope there's a follow-up book, becasue I'll get it.

Love it--Like Cake MIx Doctor but for Cookies!
I am so thrilled by this book. I love the Cake mix doctor books and 101 things to do with cake mix book, too, but honestly I am more of a cookie baker/eater. I always have at least 1 or 2 tubes of the refrigerated cookie dough in my freezer. Never thought about "doctoring" them before I found this book online. Made the toffee chippers and blackberry cheescake bars for the weekend after receiving the book--absolutley perfect and so easy. I agree with the previous reviewer that this is a great one for kids, too. My son had a great time helping to make the toffee chippers

Great for kids (of all ages)
I ordered this a month back when I found it here. Got it last week. Wonderful. Like the CAKE MIX DOCTOR but for cookies.Have already made three recipes including the Red White and Blue Tart and Buttered Rum Raisin Cookies. The Key Lime Cookies are out of control delicious. I like that it is limited to chocolate chip and sugar dough (not the ones that are harder to find like gingerbread and white chocolate)--so you can buy the store brand dough, too. Lots of kid-friendly sounding things, too--my 8 year daughter has already made a "to-do" list of the cookies she wants to bake.