Description: The Cookie Book kicks off with a section called "The Cookie Maker's Kitchen". Here you'll find all the cookie-baking basics. Aside from cookie sheets, what do you need to start baking? Turn to the "Tools" chapter to find out. What's the difference between baking powder and baking soda? Check the "Ingredients" chapter. Want to know how to fold a mixture? Find it listed in "Terms and Techniques". There are also chapters on decorating cookies and how to store and ship cookies, not crumbs. If you're already up to cookie-baking speed, you'll want to skip to the recipes. With chapters on drop cookies, rolled cookies, icebox cookies, shaped cookies, bar cookies, and special cookies, you'll be able to bake hundreds without ever getting bored. While all cookies are pretty easy, Holly includes some that are virtually impossible to bungle and others that are really for bakers who know how to handle a pastry bag. Still, anyone willing to tackle a tough cookie can. There are diagrams illustrating how to use a pastry bag, plus how to shape pretzels, mosaics, cloverleafs, and much more. In the appendices you'll find charts of cooking equivalents and substitutions (you can use cocoa plus shortening to replace unsweetened chocolate if you've run out of it) and shopping and mail-order sources. If it's ideas you need, check the "Author's Choice" listings, with suggested cookies for the cookie jar, the lunch box, Christmas gifts, and other occasions.

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