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100 Best Decorated Cookies: Featuring 750 Step-by-Step Photos

by Julie Anne Hession
Firefly. 2013. 256p. photos. index. ISBN 9780778804567. $29.95. COOKING
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With her latest work, cookbook author, feature writer, and food blogger (175 Best Mini-Pie Recipes) Hession has set out both to inspire creativity and make decorating cookies seem less intimidating. Though this volume has only 11 cookie recipes and two for icing, it does contain 100 examples of individual cookies, with 750 step-by-step photos. Hession starts off with information on equipment, techniques, and recipes. The work features a variety of cookies (those for the holidays, weather-inspired shapes, children-themed assortments, and party cookies—there's even one that looks like Elvis!). The final pages include several templates, a source guide, and a useful index.
VERDICT This graphics-heavy book, with its many detailed photos, would be a great source for beginners. However, it doesn't have much in the way of recipes, so it should be paired with another title of the same ilk such as Martha Stewart's Cookies: The Very Best Treats To Bake and To Share or Taste of Home: Cookies; 623 Irresistible Delights.
Reviewed by Jane Hebert, Glenside P.L. Dist., Glendale Heights, IL , Nov 22, 2013
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