Betty Crocker's Cooky Book
by Betty Crocker Editors, Eric Mulvany
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Book Reviews of Betty Crocker's Cooky Book
Book Review: Fantastic!
Summary: 5 Stars
Betty Crocker's Cooky Book was published in 1963 and has always been one of my favorite cookie cookbooks. I used it when I was a teenager but between raising children and moving from here to there, I lost my copy--then I found one here in December! I was so thrilled to have a brand-new copy, but it was immediately snagged--my college-aged son has already flagged some of the pages with his favorite recipes!
This wonderful book is in an easy to read format--hard cover with sturdy spiral binding inside--and thick pages, hard to tear. It includes a Cooky Primer--hints for the best procedures when making refrigerator, pressed, molded cookies, etc. Each page of the primer has color photos of representative cookies with a page reference to the recipe. There are also sections of Holiday Cookies, (e.g., Love letters for Valentine's Day), Family Favorites, Quick 'N Easy Cookies, and recipes for entertaining or just showing off. The Holiday section has cookies from around the world--Lebkuchen and Springerle from Germany, Kringla from Norway, Zimtsterne from Switzerland, AND tips on the best types of cookies to ship and how to pack them.
Truly a treasure, this book is jam-packed with full-color photos as well as easy-to-understand directions. I've never had a failed cookie from these recipes--and I've made many over the forty years since I first saw the book!
Book Review: My best Christmas gift ever!
Summary: 5 Stars
I grew up treasuring my mom's Betty Crocker's Cooky Book. Being the cooky baker in the family, I remember the countless hours I spent browsing through all the wonderful pages, literally reading our Cooky Book from cover to cover. Through the years mom would loan out her book when it was cooky baking time and some time ago it ended up lost in action. We couldn't find a reprint copy to replace it. It was a family treasure we truly missed. Sure, I had some of my favorite recipes written down and filed away, but I really missed the holiday ritual of browsing through all the beautiful color pages of cookies. This year my sister presented me an early Christmas gift of my very own copy of The Cooky Book. I immediately began browsing its' pages, sharing old cooky baking stories with my daughters. Everytime I see its' cover staring at me from my kitchen shelf, I feel a bit nostalgic as I recall the happy moments throughout my childhood when I discovered yet another favorite cooky recipe. It was the best gift my sister could ever have given me. Now that a copy of The Cooky Book is back within the family ...in my possession... I have been designated the official cooky baker. I have my work cut out for me, but I enjoy the warm fuzzy feeling I impart on my family members when I present them with a gift of their favorite holiday cookies from The Cooky Book.Book Review: I love this cookie book!
Summary: 5 Stars
This is the best cookie book I have ever found. 1. First and foremost, the recipes. Simply put, they turn out right every time and yield delicious results. This is the only baking book I have ever found that provides consistently reliable results on every recipe I've tried. No guess work, no hit and miss. What more could you ask for? Plus, there is a wide variety of recipes here - every kind of cookie you could hope to find.
2. The format. Lots of pictures, with the name of the recipe and page where it can be found clearly identified for each picture. Also, the book is divided into chapters that make sense. The book has a hard cover, to withstand years of kitchen abuse and to make the book readily identifiable on the shelf, and a spiral binding, so the pages lay flat. Bravo to the publisher for making this a very usable, practical cookbook. Plus, the pictures are wonderful. They were taken when the goal of food photography was to make the food look like actual food, not high art. These cookies look like something that could come from your own oven.
3. The nostalgia. I remember so many of these recipes from my childhood, and you probably will too. It was so fun to reminisce about the various recipes and the memories they invoked.
Book Review: A wonderful memory from childhood!
Summary: 5 Stars
I stumbled across this cookbook at a local bookstore and was immediately drawn to it, when I pulled it off the shelf I was flooded with memories of my childhood. How could this be? I remembered this cookbook or one similar to it and once I started thumbing through it's pages was compelled to purchase it for my collection. My cookbook collection started out with a few basic cookbooks, then I started collecting cookie cookbooks and it now contains about 250 different cookbooks encompassing all ethnic varieties. I showed the book to my sister and the same thing happened, our mom did have this exact cookbook when we were children (back in the 60's and 70's) and this is what she baked all our Christmas goodies from, we came across recipes that we have not had since our childhood and are planning a baking weekend to prepare all of our childhood favorites for our kids this Christmas. Thank you Betty Crocker for republishing this timeless classic!! Our mom passed away to cancer 8 years ago and we have no idea what happened to her original copy but are both pleased to have copies of our own to enjoy, although the original would still be treasured with all its stains, folded pages and marginal notes in mom's writing.Book Review: Cookie recipes I grew up on....
Summary: 5 Stars
This is the one cookbook I remember from childhood. When I was old enough to get up on a stool and help measure out ingredients mom & I would turn to this book again and again for all the classic cookie recipes. Baking is one of my favorite things to do and this is the one cookie book that I would not want to lose. This book has it all for those that want bar cookies, drop cookies, formed cookies, and special occassion cookies. If you can't find something to make in here you are not looking for a classic cookie book. Now here is what this book isn't: A fancy book with complicated ingredients or one that has a bunch of new things you haven't heard of. This is comfort cooking to the maximum. This is cooking with mom or grandma in your kitchen, cookie swaps for Christmas and getting back to those times when people baked and life was a little slower and a little sweeter.
My absolute favorite cookie cookbook! This would be a great gift for a budding baker or a charming shower gift with some nice cookie pans and a cooling rack or some cookie cutters. If you love to bake you will love this one and will find yourself grabbing it often to bake treats.