Cookies: Delicious Recipes for Sweet Treats to Bake & Share

by American Girl

The go-to guide for girl bakers who want to share the fun homemade cookies--featuring more than sixty recipes, plus decorating tips and more!



American Girl Cookies is chock full of recipes for one of America's favorite sweet treats, from classic favorites to contemporary creations. Chewy, crunchy, gooey, or crumbly, choose from a delectable collection of drop cookies, sandwich cookies, cut-out cookies, brownies, and bars--like cinnamon-y snickerdoodles; chocolate sweetheart sandwiches; lemon squares studded with coconut; brownies covered in gooey chocolate frosting; rainbow sugar cookies; and cookie cutouts decorated with every kind of sprinkle!

In addition to essential baking tips and safety knowhow, discover fun skills like piping and flooding icing, making natural food dyes, and rolling and storing dough like a pro.

Whether you want to bake the perfect after-school snack, fun desserts for a party, or a dozen special treats to gift and share, this beautifully photographed collection of recipes will inspire you to bake cookies for any and every occasion. This guide has everything you'll need to become an expert cookie maker in no time. So grab your friends, your rolling pin, and get baking!

Genres: Cookbooks

128 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 30, 2018

Reviews

[Miranda Reads · Rating 4 out of 5]

Here we go again! I swear, I've reviewed at least a dozen of these American Girl cookbooks but at the same time, it's been quite fun to check out all the recipes! I'm first going to delve into the recipe sections then provide my overall thoughts at the end.

Classic Cookies Galore

Of course we have to start the cookie cookbook off with the staples - items like Classic Peanut Butter, Triple-Chocolate-Chunk, Buttery Vanilla Shortbread, and Snickerdoodles. Most of the recipes were instantly recognizable to me though a few took me buy surprise like the Chewy White Chocolate Coconut Cookies or the Chocolate-Dipped Butter Cookie Triangles.

Sugar Cookie-Tastic

Sugar Cookies are truly iconic but they also tend to only have very slight variations when it comes to the recipe. This cookbook does have Sugar Cookie Cutouts and Chocolate Sugar Cookies but then has other 'versions' like Love Heart Cookies, Stained Glass Cookies, Donut Cookies, etc. Which all have their own recipes...but I feel like if you have a solid sugar cookie base, you probably don't need all the different versions.

Special & Seasonal

I do absolutely adore a seasonal cookie - and here we have...a hodgepodge of cookies. Some of them felt very seasonal, like Gingersnap Snowflakes or Lemon-Lime Thumbprints. But a lot of them felt just like they kinda hit the 'special' tag like Swirly Meringues, Fortune Cookies, Milk-and-Cookie Cups, or Homemade Oreos. I feel like they should've have one section for seasonal and another for specialized cookies.

Brownies & Bars

Mmmm....I will say this section was fun but this is the COOKIE book not the Brownies & Bars book. We do have good ones like Chocolate Chip Blondies, Mini Cheesecake Bars, S'mores Bars, and Millionaire's Shortbread...but they definitely don't ooze "cookie" to me.

Overall Thoughts

I liked that the cookies included had a fairly good mix of 'classic' and 'new-to-me' recipes. I also appreciated we didn't get anything SUPER finicky so most of the recipes were just 'mix together and bake' which is my style in the kitchen.

I definitely appreciated how many of the cookies were accompanied by photographs to show how they were supposed to look.

That being said, the theming fell a little short for me. Some of the sections felt a little weak or only tangentially related to the overall cookbook concept.

[Erin · Rating 3 out of 5]

Well written but at least one picture per recipe would do wonders for the appetite.

[CC · Rating 3 out of 5]

Less whimsical than some of the other AG books, and a few repeats started to sneak in.