Product Description

Elaborately decorated cookies fill the shelves of high-end bakery cases, tempting shoppers with bright colors and whimsical shapes. The cookies are beautiful, but buying them in a bakery can be shockingly expensive, and their flavor often doesn’t live up to their appearance. Now home bakers can have their pretty cookies and enjoy eating them too!

Thanks to the clear instructions and practical methods developed by authors Valerie Peterson and Janice Fryer, amateur cookie crafters can achieve bakery-quality design and homemade fresh taste. Cookie Craft gives readers access to the entire world of decorated cookies, beginning with an inspirational gallery of 150 colorful cookies guaranteed to start those creative juices flowing.

The authors go on to discuss ingredients, supplies, equipment and technique. They include four delicious recipes for rolled cookie doughs (Traditional Sugar, Chocolate, Nutty, and Gingerbread) that provide perfect blank canvases for decorating, and, of course, their recipe for versatile Royal Icing.

In the most important section, they share the design techniques accumulated and perfected during hundreds of afternoons spent crafting thousands of cookies. Cookie crafters will learn how to pipe, flood, and sugar their cookies, how to design color palettes that work with every season, how to make cookies stand up in fun 3-D structures, and much more!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #22390 in Books
• Brand: Storey Publishing, LLC
• Published on: 2007-10-24
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 158 pages

Features

• Designs and Techniques for Creative Cookie Occasions
• Take your cookie crafting to the next level.
• Learn how to pipe, flood, and sugar their cookies, design color palettes.
• Create stand up cookies.
• 4 delicious recipes for rolled cookie doughs included.

From the Back Cover
The Art of the Cookie

Equal parts baking and colorful decorating, cookie crafting is just the thing for crafters who love to bake and bakers inspired by the possibilities in a filled pastry bag. Here are all the clever tricks and insider's hints that will elevate your cookies to edible art.

About the Author
Valerie Peterson is a writer with over fifteen years of experience working with cookbooks. She grew up in Yonkers, New York, where her second favorite toy was her Easy-Bake Oven. She now lives in Manhattan.

Janice Fryer is a Pastry Arts graduate of the Institute of Culinary Education in New York City. A California native and a New Yorker at heart, she lives in Brooklyn with a crazy cat and an even crazier dog. Keeping them from eating her creations is always a lively challenge.

Customer Reviews

Wonderful!!!!
If you can buy just one book about cookie and/or decoration, buy this!!!
It is the really must-have and it changed my way of thinking about cookies!!!
Just 4 fundamental recipes (plain, chocolate, gingerbread and a nutty-yummy one) and LOADS of interesting tips about speeding the process of roll-bake-decorate-send. And what a wonderful edition too: with a old-fashion look I found so appealing!
Good writing and funny, too! And cristal clear instructions...
I love this book!

Pretty AND Tasty!
I have always enjoyed making decorated sugar cookies at Christmastime, but they were never that great. The cookies themselves were only okay, my frostings always smooshed down and I never knew what to do with the actual decorations, I was a woman with cute cookie-cutters, but without a plan. This is the book that changed all that.

I've now made the plain butter (with the tasty lemon zest) and the chocolate butter cookies serveral times and have yet to be dissapointed. There were a few tricks about rolling out the dough and when and for how long to chill the dough that were worth the price of the book alone. From the cookie recipes themselves to the royal icing and flooding techniques to how to get the decorating sugars to stick, the book is well written, FULL of great pictures for ideas for all occasions and explanations for techniques that I thought I knew, but didn't.

I love this book, it brought my decorated cookies to the next level and I couldn't be more pleased. After reading through this book I went out and increased my cookie cutter collection and can hardly wait to make even more! This book has a place of honor in my kitchen and I highly recommend it to anyone who doesn't mind taking a little time (decorating cookies is time consumming no matter who's recipes you're using)to make a truly stunning result.

Great illustrations
The cookies decorated in this book are just fun to look at if nothing else. And if you have similar talent to the author, you will have a great time duplicating some of the cookies shown in this book. If you are a beginner though you may be frustrated (like me) that the decorating tips are not that clear. If you can't use it to improve your own cookie decorating, it still makes a great coffee table book.