Homemade Cookies (Better Homes and Gardens(R))

Rating:
Summary: Great tasting recipes and easy to make
Review: I originally got this book from the public library. After making many of the great cookie recipes and copying several others (because the book was due back), I decided I needed to have my own copy of the book. I have taken several of the bar cookies to potlucks and have been asked by others for the recipes.

Rating:
Summary: Great tasting recipes and easy to make
Review: I originally got this book from the public library. After making many of the great cookie recipes and copying several others (because the book was due back), I decided I needed to have my own copy of the book. I have taken several of the bar cookies to potlucks and have been asked by others for the recipes.

Rating:
Summary: Cookie Heaven
Review: My grandmother always made cookies and kept some on hand for every time we came to visit. At Christmas time she would make tins full of different types of cookies. The variety seemed endless. This was one of my favorite books in her cookbook collection.

All kinds of cookies have made their way into this book. Drop, Bar, sliced, shaped, cutout and no-fuss cookies are all invited into cookie heaven.

One reason I especially like this book is that they have a special section called: "Helpful Cookie Hints." It helps you keep your home-baked cookies fresh and they give the ABC's of cookie storing, sending and gift giving.

Banana Nut Cookies, Pumpkin Cookies, Coconut Macaroons, cake brownies, Double Almond Cookies and the more traditional shortbread recipes look divine. There is a cherry variation for the shortbread recipe.

I have also been looking for a good recipe for molded cookies. You often find the molds, but there is no recipe with many of them. The recipe for "whole wheat critters" is a cookie made with whole wheat flour and is quite good.

As a child, my mother helped us make "sugar bells." I wish she had let us make the "cookie pops" those are adorable. I think some of these recipes might be in the Better Homes and Gardens New Cookbook because I remember making some of the as a child.

This cookbook was originally $... so it has kept its value since 1990. The cover is tan with cookies almost falling off the cover. There are so many of them! The pinwheels and chocolate cookies with mint filling look especially tempting.

~TheRebeccaReview.com