Milk & Cookies: 89 Heirloom Recipes from New York's Milk & Cookies Bakery

by Tina-Marie Casaceli, Jacques Torres (Foreword)

From New York City's popular cookie shop Milk & Cookies comes 89 tried, true, and scrumptious recipes for cookies, bars, and brownies. In Milk & Cookies , pastry chef Tina Casaceli shares classic family recipes, as well as favorites from her bakery. More than 45 good-enough-to-eat photographs, can-do baking formulas, and a friendly Greenwich Village vibe make this cookbook too tantalizing to resist.

Genres: Cookbooks, Cooking, Food, Nonfiction, Reference

176 pages, Hardcover

First published April 20, 2011

Reviews

[Sue Smith · Rating 5 out of 5]

MMMMMMMMMMMM!!!!!!!!

I love having a base dough with add-in options..... it just opens up allllll sorts of yummy goodness!! And what's better than one base dough? 5 Base doughs - that's what!!! Endless possibilities. And to top it off - there's all sorts of 'specialty' cookies and fabulous family cookies ... and if that's not enough ..... there's a few brownies and bars in there too.

*sigh* I'm in cookie heaven!

[Lindsey · Rating 5 out of 5]

Not just cookies! (although there are plenty of those in this book) You'll also find brownies, bars, biscotti, and a few other pastry items. Most of the cookies are built off of a base (vanilla, chocolate, oatmeal, peanut butter) and then further customized. Measurements include standard measurements and weights. There are basic cookies, fancy cookies, usual cookies, and unexpected cookies.

[Kristin · Rating 4 out of 5]

I got this from the library, but I'm going to buy it. I love the way the chapters are organized - one base dough per chapter, then pages about different mix-ins and methods. This is really the only cookie book you'll ever need.

[Jon · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a very nice, specialty cookbook focused exclusively on sweet treats -- cookies, brownies, and bars.

Beautiful photos where they count and no-fail recipes that bring a nice twist to classics. It's organized into:
- Vanilla cookies
- Double chocolate cookies
- Oatmeal cookies
- Peanut butter cookies
- Sugar cookies
- Special cookies (like Snickerdoodles and Ice-cream sandwich cookies!)
- Family favorites (Italian specialties)
- Brownies and bars

Dig in, you won't regret it!

[Laurie · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a great way to do recipes. There are four basic cookie doughs (vanilla, oatmeal, sugar and chocolate). Each has additions to the basic recipe, and several stand-alone recipes, to make a total of 89 different cookies to bake. Great photos, too, and author anecdotes. This is a cafe in New York City.

[Miss✧Pickypants ᓚᘏᗢ · Rating 3 out of 5]

Interesting approach in this cookbook, most chapters start with a master recipe for the cookie base and subsequent recipes in the chapter use the base with add-ins.

Not a lot of photos, but recipes are straight forward and well written.

[Sheila · Rating 4 out of 5]

Yummy recipes that are so easy and versatile.

[Hana Jay Klokner · Rating 5 out of 5]

This cookbook is amazing! I tried about 8 recipes so far and it was fun baking all those sweet treats. It includes not only America's most favorite cookies but also other favorites like brownies and heirlom recipes from Tina Casaceli's family. The good thing (that also makes the baking easy) is that most recipes have a "base dough" which can be altered with various ingredients (e.g. nuts, extracts, dried fruit). This gives you a big variety of recipes and when you start feeling more comfortable with your favorite ingredients, you can always create your one-of-the-kind cookies. This is why it's so much fun baking from this books: it shapes your baking skill and encourages you to bake as you wish at the same time. I wish all cookbooks were like this.

[Brandy · Rating 4 out of 5]

Picked this one up at the library but might as well buy it - I've been copying down recipes all afternoon, haha. Although there are a few ingredients that I don't have the slightest idea where to get, the majority of these cookies and related treats are very newish-baker-friendly. I have everything on hand for some chocolate chunk oatmeal cookies...they might be happening tonight :)

[Cagne · Rating 3 out of 5]

A great variety of recipes, but not enough pictures, it's a bunch of big white pages with only text on it, specially for the alternative/regional recipes towards the last part (although the editor switched from putting random artsy kitchen pictures in between chapters to an assortment of cookies from the recipes in the following chapter, not all of them, but at lest some).

[Darcy · Rating 4 out of 5]

I really liked how this cookbook was set up. There were 5 main recipes, very basic dough, then the following pages would use the dough as a base with lots of fun stuff for different varieties. I can't wait to try some of these recipes.

[Susie · Rating 4 out of 5]

I really liked that they divided into vanilla cookies, chocolate cookies, peanut butter cookies, etc and provided the base cookie recipe for each before walking you through add-ons. And I don't know half the cookies in the specialty section!

[Dray · Rating 4 out of 5]

Who doesn't enjoy a well crafted cookie? This small cookbook contains some scrumptuous recipes that are unique but not off the commercial path. It also has a fairly unique organization, offering base recipes for cookie dough and then elaborations, additions etc using the base recipe.

[Sarah · Rating 4 out of 5]

I want to bake every one of these recipes. Just enough personal touch & family history with killer baking science.

[Wendy · Rating 2 out of 5]

I'm not a big fan of cookbooks that have 'base recipes', and then a bunch of different ways to use them. Also, 3 sticks of butter in a batch of cookies?! Whoa!

[Carla · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a great cookie cookbook that has cookies that are just down home yummy!

[Brett · Rating 3 out of 5]

I really like that there are a handful of "base" dough recipes, & then several variations on each.

[Liz De Coster · Rating 3 out of 5]

I really like the idea of different types of base dough that you can turn into a wide range of cookies.

[Marlee · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not too crazy about having base recipes then adding diffrerent ingredients for different cookie.

[Mary · Rating 5 out of 5]

Yummy!

[Christina]

I am more of a cake person than a cookie person, but I made several recipes from this book. The one recipe that I keep making is the Crispy Chocolate Chip Bar. Really simple to make and it's good!

[Sara · Rating 4 out of 5]

I loved this!!! I really can't wait to try some of these.