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A cookie compendium, filled with 500 failsafe, melt-in-the-mouth recipes, including traditional favourites from around the world. Jam-packed with advice on ingredients, basic techniques, conversions, and even troubleshooting tips for when things go wrong. A beautifully illustrated and easy-to-follow guide to creating perfect cookies every time - golden brown, crisp on the outside, sublimely moist on the inside. This is the only cookie book you will ever need!
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Wendy Sweetser is the food editor of OK! Magazine and London Magazine. She has contributed food features to numerous other magazines and spent several years working with a leading Asian company developing recipes and new products. She is the author of nine books including The Deep Fryer Cookbook (Apple, 2004). She lives in Southend-on-Sea in Essex.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I thought this would be great. I would make a new batch of cookies every week, trying all sorts of different recipes. So far I've tried two, and things have not gone well on either occasion. I am not a bad cook, and I know how to follow recipes accurately. I have a good set of kitchen scales that weigh to within 5g, and I am careful when I cook. Nevertheless, these recipes seemed to have failure built in.
First, the chocolate and orange sandwich cookies, on page 129: in the picture they look wonderful. I had terrible trouble making the paste, which was sticky and hard to handle. I suspect the ratio of dry to wet ingredients was wrong. Maybe I used eggs that were too large. As it was I persevered. The recipes says to bake for 10 -- 25 minutes. I took them out after about 18 minutes, which it turned out later (after they had cooled) was not long enough. However, the recipe doesn't say how to tell when they're done, so how could I know? Furthermore, again following the recipe, my orange cream filling ended up far too wet to use comfortably. Overall, the taste was great, but the cookies were a deep disappointment.
Second, snicker doodles, page 24. The recipe claims to make 2 dozen biscuits. It tells you to place the paste balls 2 inches apart, implying that the resulting biscuits will have a 2 inch diameter. Rubbish! Mine all ran together into one large mass. I estimate that that quantity of paste would make at least 3 dozen biscuits, if not more. Worse, it was impossible to scrape them off the baking tray because there was no instruction to grease it. Other recipes don't omit that instruction when it is needed, so I naturally assumed that it wasn't necessary. I still haven't removed the baked-on mess. Once again, the taste is great but the experience is a huge disappointment.
I have given up with this book, and I advise you to do so too.
First, the chocolate and orange sandwich cookies, on page 129: in the picture they look wonderful. I had terrible trouble making the paste, which was sticky and hard to handle. I suspect the ratio of dry to wet ingredients was wrong. Maybe I used eggs that were too large. As it was I persevered. The recipes says to bake for 10 -- 25 minutes. I took them out after about 18 minutes, which it turned out later (after they had cooled) was not long enough. However, the recipe doesn't say how to tell when they're done, so how could I know? Furthermore, again following the recipe, my orange cream filling ended up far too wet to use comfortably. Overall, the taste was great, but the cookies were a deep disappointment.
Second, snicker doodles, page 24. The recipe claims to make 2 dozen biscuits. It tells you to place the paste balls 2 inches apart, implying that the resulting biscuits will have a 2 inch diameter. Rubbish! Mine all ran together into one large mass. I estimate that that quantity of paste would make at least 3 dozen biscuits, if not more. Worse, it was impossible to scrape them off the baking tray because there was no instruction to grease it. Other recipes don't omit that instruction when it is needed, so I naturally assumed that it wasn't necessary. I still haven't removed the baked-on mess. Once again, the taste is great but the experience is a huge disappointment.
I have given up with this book, and I advise you to do so too.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase
Agree with a previous reviewer that transforming this book for the UK market might have resulted in some editing oddities. What is "Muesli sugar"? - and in at least one recipe, you're told to process an ingredient which is never mentioned again so the instructions can be a bit confusing. For this reason, probably not a book for a beginner but useful for a cook who likes to bake and is looking for some fresh inspiration.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I've tried just one recipe "gingerbread bears". Since they were presents for christmas I made double dough... Unfortunately the quantities were wrong and I could make cookies only because I checked on the net for other recipes. At the end they turned out very good but I had to add 160gr of butter instead of only 75gr...
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variable results
The 500 cookies from the title arises from offering half a dozen variations on some basic recipes. More importantly some of the recipes produce distinctly variable results and... Read more
Published on 10 July 2007 by Peter
UK version
This is the UK version of '500 Cookies' it is written in grams and ounces NOT cups. It also has British ingredients, ie no corn syrup. Read more
Published on 12 Jan 2007 by eggless cookie lover
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