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: The best cookie cookbook ever
Summary: 5 Stars
I grew up with this book and have my mother's original copy. It is completely falling apart from her use and mine. I have several other cookie cookbooks and they do not even come close.The Christmas selection, in particular, is quite good. The candy cane cookies are always a big hit with everyone I make them for. They are so easy, yet everyone is so fascinated with them.
The main recipe I grew up with from this book is Snickerdoodles. Until recently I couldn't even find anyone outside my family who knew what they were...the most delicious cookie known to man and this recipe makes the perfect snickerdoodle. You'll never want to have store bought again after you make them.
Actually, if you make any of these recipes you'll have a hard time going back to Oreos and Pepperidge Farms. :-)
Book Review: Best Cookie Cookbook
Summary: 5 Stars
Unlike many of the reviewers, I did not grow up with this book, although I did grow up in the 60's. My Mother was a fan of the Red Plaid Better Homes and Gardens Cookbooks. There are some good recipes there, but seriously, the woman did not know what she was missing! I bought this book because I have an interest in old cookbooks, but I was delighted to discover that the recipes were nothing short of fantastic. The snickerdoodles recipe alone is worth the price of the book -- sheer perfection. I've tried quite a few of the recipes, and I've had no failures. None. Even the pumpkin cookies were devoured by my daughter's fellow elementary students. When you add great recipes to pure nostalgia you have a perfect winner. I recommend this book to anyone who likes to bake and eat cookies. Yum!Book Review: Christmas all year
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a treasure trove of wonderful cookie recipes. Pecan crispies are light and elegant. Thumbprint, Russian teacake, meringues and sugar cookies are holiday favorites. Shamrock cookies become witches' fingers for Halloween with just omission of food coloring and a different rolling technique. Almond butter, French lace, nut crunch cookies. Of course, there are hundreds more--your favorites, no doubt! I recommend buying this book if you bake, or if you hope to. But I will add, it's not the "original" Betty Crocker cookie book. My mother has that--from the 30's or 40's I think, smaller and with fewer recipes, but awesome. This version has vivid color photographs so you can drool--or occupy your kids with just visuals--while you consider what to make next!Book Review: Takes Me Home
Summary: 5 Stars
I've had this book since I was 12 years old. I'm 56 now and would never give up this precious book. I learned to bake many of these great cookies and swore I'd learn to bake them all. Well, that never happened, but I still use this book when I want a favorite sugar cookie, gingerbread cookie or fabulously decorated pressed cookie. This book helped me create wonderful cookies in the 60's to send to my Dad in Viet Nam, to my boyfriend in the Marines at Camp Pendelton, and to bring as gifts at Christmas to friends throughout the years. The front cover is torn off, but still here, some of the pages have the crayon and pencil marks of my then 4 year old sister and 2 year old brother. A few tears, splatters and tons of memories. Get this book and create memories.Book Review: Best cookie book ever
Summary: 5 Stars
I grew up choosing christmas cookies out of this book. I have wonderful memories of paging through it; I'm not sure, but I think every cookie is pictured (not individually, but in groupings), this is great for the little kids that want to choose a recipe, they just say, "I want that one". A few years back when I had my daughter, my Mom looked into getting one for me off ebay and was impressed that they were collectable, and expensive (the older ones anyway). Between this and her inexperiance with the internet she never got me one and isn't ready to give up hers yet. So now that I have two daughters and the first is at an age that she enjoys dumping ingredients into the mixer I just ordered one so we can choose and make cookies together this christmas.