Cookie Love: More Than 60 Recipes and Techniques for Turning the Ordinary into the Extraordinary [A Baking Book]

A new, edgier take on baking cookies, from a James Beard Award-winning chef and the owner of the popular Chicago restaurant, HotChocolate. Mindy Segal is serious about cookies. And Cookie Love is your new go-to, never-fail reference for turn-out-perfectly-every-time cookie recipes. Mindy, award-winning pastry chef and self-professed "cookie nerd," shares all of her secrets for turning classic recipes into more elevated, fun interpretations of everyone's favorite sweet treat. From Peanut Butter Peanut Brittle Cookies and Fleur de Sel Shortbread with Vanilla Halvah, to Malted Milk Spritz and Peaches and Cream Thumbprints, Segal's recipes are inspired and far from expected. Inside you'll find more than sixty perfected recipes for every kind of cookie including drop cookies, bars, sandwich cookies, shortbread, thumbprints, and more, as well as the best tricks and tools of the trade and everything you need to know to build the ideal cookie pantry. A must-have for anyone looking to up their cookie-baking game, Cookie Love is a celebration of the most humble, delicious, and wonderful of baked treats. From the Hardcover edition A New, Edgier Take On Baking Cookies, From A James Beard Award-winning Chef And The Owner Of The Popular Chicago Restaurant, Hotchocolate. Mindy Segal Is An Up-and-coming Chef And Baker Who's Serious About Cookies And Bars. In Her First Cookbook, Segal Turns Classic Recipes Into More Elevated, Fun Interpretations Of Everyone's Favorite Sweet Treat. From Brown Butter With Hickory Smoked Bacon Chocolate Chip Cookies And Creme De Violet Snickerdoodles, To Citrus, Brown Butter, And Graham Cracker Shortbread With Framboise Preserves And Hibiscus Sugar Rugelach, Segal's Recipes Are Inspired And Far From Expected. This Modern Twist On A Traditional Favorite Is The Perfect Addition To Every Baker's Bookshelf-- Introduction: Tough Love -- Drop Cookies -- Shortbread -- Sandwich Cookies -- Egg White Cookies -- Spritz + Thumbprints -- Twice-baked Cookies -- Rugelach + Kolachkes -- Bars -- Basics -- My Cookie Pantry -- Tools Of The Trade -- Tricks Of The Trade. Mindy Segal With Kate Leahy ; Photography By Dan Goldberg. Includes Index. "A new, edgier take on baking cookies, from a James Beard Award-winning chef and the owner of the popular Chicago restaurant, HotChocolate. Mindy Segal is an up-and-coming chef and baker who's serious about cookies and bars. In her first cookbook, Segal turns classic recipes into more elevated, fun interpretations of everyone's favorite sweet treat. From Brown Butter with Hickory Smoked Bacon Chocolate Chip Cookies and Creme de Violet Snickerdoodles, to Citrus, Brown Butter, and Graham Cracker Shortbread with Framboise Preserves and Hibiscus Sugar Rugelach, Segal's recipes are inspired and far from expected. This modern twist on a traditional favorite is the perfect addition to every baker's bookshelf"-- Provided by publisher