Collection Highlights: December 2022

 

Collection Highlight: December 2022

Contributed by Jordan Wohlfort, Collection Development Librarian

December 2022

No matter how you spend December, it’s a great time of year to spend baking and taste testing some new cookie recipes. Check out the braille and talking books below to find your new favorite treat.

The Wooden Spoon Cookie Book: Favorite Home-Style Recipes from the Wooden Spoon Kitchen, by Marilyn M. Moore

BR 10292

Includes recipes for drop cookies, bar cookies, shaped cookies, refrigerator cookies, and cutout cookies. Discusses stocking a cookie kitchen, hosting a holiday cookie swap, and involving children in cookie making.

Rosie's Bakery Chocolate-Packed, Jam-Filled, Butter-Rich, No-Holds-Barred Cookie Book, by Judy Rosenberg

BR 10867

Approximately 150 cookie recipes that don't stint on the good stuff, like butter, nuts, and chocolate. Categories include chewy crunch, crispy chompy, bars, cakey, sandwiched together, and holiday cookies.

One Dough, Fifty Cookies: Baking Favorite and Festive Cookies in a Snap, by Leslie Glover Pendleton

BR 12161

Former food editor of Gourmet magazine provides a recipe and instructions for one large master batch of butter cookie dough. Each of the fifty recipes for distinctly flavored cookies that follows calls for one half of the master dough. Covers spritz, icebox, rolled or cutout, drop, and bar forms.

Alice Medrich's Cookies and Brownies, by Alice Medrich

BR 12574

The author of Chocolate and the Art of Low-fat Desserts (BR 10421) now provides recipes for shortbread, butter cookies, chocolate cookies, cookie classics, biscotti, brownies, and bars. She also instructs on techniques for decorating cookies and making sandwich cookies, and discusses ingredients and equipment.

Bake the Best-Ever Cookies!, by Sarah Williamson

BR 14410

More than twenty-five step-by-step cookie recipes for beginning bakers. Suggests "Secret Treat Thumbprints" for a first cookie-baking experience. Includes such favorites as lemon squares, brownies, and snickerdoodles. Provides practical advice on basic equipment, ingredients, and preparation. For grades 3-6 and older readers.

Maida Hatter's Brand-New Book of Great Cookies, by Maida Heatter

DB 42658

More than eighty cookie recipes and general tips on cookie making from an award-winning dessert-book author. Her selections include bar, drop, icebox, and rolling-pin cookies and biscotti.

Mrs. Fields Cookie Book: 100 Recipes from the Kitchen of Mrs. Fields, by Debbi Fields

DB 44172

The author, famous for her international cookie business, provides recipes to be made at home. Aimed at casual as well as avid bakers, the collection includes dropped, fancy, filled, and bar cookies. It also offers other special treats such as cheesecake and apple pie.

Martha Stewart's Cookies: The Very Best Treats to Bake and to Share, by Martha Stewart

DB 66148

Presents 175 cookie recipes with textures such as soft and chewy, crumbly and sandy, and chunky and nutty. Covers easy-to-make traditional drop cookies as well as fruit bars, meringues, icebox spirals, biscotti, and more. Includes ideas for packaging and information about tools and techniques.

American Girl Cookies

DB 92940

Forty-seven tempting recipes for sweet treats to bake and share. Includes instructions for whipping up sugary creations such as donut cookies, gingersnap snowflakes, milk-and-cookie cups, ooey-gooey layer bars, crispy rice and chocolate layer brownies, and millionaire's shortbread. For grades 3-6 and older readers.