Biggest Book of Cookies

by Better Homes and Gardens

A mouthwatering selection of more than five hundred kitchen-tested cookie recipes features an array of both traditional favorites and innovative new treats, along with instruction in the basic principles of baking cookies, expert tips, and more than one hundred full-color photographs. Original. 40,000 first printing.

Genres: Cookbooks, Cooking

416 pages, Plastic Comb

First published August 15, 2003

About the author

Better Homes and Gardens is the fourth best selling magazine in the United States. Better Homes and Gardens focuses on interests regarding homes, cooking, gardening, crafts, healthy living, decorating, and entertaining. The magazine is published 12 times per year by the Meredith Corporation. It was founded in 1922 by Edwin Meredith, who had previously been the United States Secretary of Agriculture under Woodrow Wilson.

Better Homes and Gardens is one of the "Seven Sisters", a group of women's service magazines.

Reviews

[Mayda · Rating 5 out of 5]

After checking out this book from my local library numerous times, I finally bought my own copy. No matter which recipe I use from this collection, the cookies are always well received. The recipes are well organized and indexed, and easy to follow, with many illustrations. Succinct tips abound in the recipes, as well as a Q & A section about cookie problems. Also included are the correct methods of storage for each cookie, not that you'll have a lot left over to store. With 475 favorite recipes, you'll be baking all year. Or give the book to your baking friends, and hope for many happy, (and tasty), returns.

[Yousseif Abdellatif · Rating 4 out of 5]

Look, I went into Biggest Book of Cookies wanting a fun, mindless escape, and I got a book that kept poking at me instead. Better Homes and Gardens follows a group of old college friends reuniting for a weekend, and the scene around the fire pit, where one casual comment cracks the whole group wide open, is perfectly awkward. Some of the dialogue is a little too neat. For readers who like reunion drama and uncomfortable truths. Skip it if you want pure, easy fun.

[Yousseif Abdellatif · Rating 3 out of 5]

Look, Biggest Book of Cookies is the best case I've seen for not trusting your first impression of anybody. Better Homes and Gardens takes ten ordinary people and slowly shows you the messy, contradictory stuff under the surface, and the chapter on the "perfect" neighbor with the immaculate lawn is a quiet punch. A couple of the profiles feel like filler. Good for people who like human-nature stories. Not for anyone looking for a big, unifying thesis.

[Sara · Rating 3 out of 5]

Well-rounded collection of recipes but not mind-blowing. A good book for a beginning baker.

[Mary · Rating 4 out of 5]

I love this book. It has given me some good cookies to make for Christmas.

2019:
Every December, my daughters and I make candies, fudges, and cookies. Lots and lots of cookies.

We experiment and we change things and we make cookies. I bought this book many years ago and we got it out and I re-read through the recipes, marking and taking notes and getting ready to make a few cookies. Hermits are a great way to use up coffee! So flavorful!

For those who wonder, we package up the cookies and give them to the first responders in our area as a thank you for all they do all year long. (Oh, yeah I know this is January, but we got a virus in December, so cookie making got cut short, so we made more).

[Mikel · Rating 5 out of 5]

My favorite cookie cookbook! Great ideas, especially for Christmas.