Big Fat Cookies

by Elinor Klivans

Book Overview

Nobody's ever made baking history with a scrawny cookie. No matter what the occasion, nothing beats the big, fat, homemade kind. With this deliciously fun cookbook and a few simple ingredients, anyone can whip up a quick batch of one of 50 different gigantic crispy, chewy, or fancy-pants sandwich cookies. From classic Super Chocolate Chip to colossal Mocha Mud Mountains, Jumbo Coconut Macaroons to Lemon Whoopie Pies, this is total cookie satisfaction...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811842169
• ISBN13: 9780811842167
• Release Date: November 2004
• Publisher: Chronicle Books
• Length: 132 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.0" x 8.8"

Customer Reviews

Mmmmm... Cookies....

"Big Fat Cookies" contains a good selection of recipes--an entire chapter each of "big chewy cookies," "colossal crisp cookies," and "two-fisted sandwich cookies." Whether you're looking for lemon whoopie pies, toasted coconut washboards, oatmeal trailblazers, toffee crunch cookie brittle, or chocolate chip-stuffed cookies, you'll find it in here. While you'll certainly find recipes that will please those who only eat "standard" cookie flavors, most of these recipes are inventive and unusual in at least some small way or another. For instance, the oatmeal cookies rolled in trail mix before baking (yum!) or the butterscotch "blondies" that are turned into drop cookies and have melted chocolate swirled into them. As usual for a Chronicle book the production quality is quite high. Photos are elegant and tasty-looking. Layout is clear and easy to read. The recipe steps are simple and non-confusing. The book includes notes on ingredients, tools, storing cookies, mailing cookies, and so on. Rather than providing hundreds of recipes of reasonable quality as many cookbooks choose to do, it concentrates on a more limited selection of higher-quality recipes. It certainly provides you with new ideas, however, from the cranberry-walnut cream cheese cookie mounds to the lemon butter crumb cookies and peppermint patties. Every recipe we've made from this cookbook has been delightful--particularly those butterscotch blondie cookies!

The BEST cookies!

I have always loved baking, but with this book in my kitchen, baking is wonderful because of all the praise I receive from friends, family, and co-workers. I have tried many of the recipes and all of them have been delicious. Elinor has great tips for many of the recipes and gives a good introduction at the beginning of the book with general tips about making great cookies (ingredients, utensils, etc). I have put away the chocolate chip cookie recipe from my mom because the recipes in this book are just too easy and perfect! You won't be disappointed with this book - go ahead and try all the recipes for big, fat, DELICIOUS cookies!

Loved this book

Elinor Klivans has once again created a cookbook that is practical and beautiful. "Big Fat Cookies" is full of impress-your-friends cookies that are easy to make. We made Chocolate Chip-Stuffed Cookies and Fudge-Filled Chocolate-Chip Cookie Sandwiches (pictured on the cover) for my toddler's recent birthday party and were besieged with compliments and requests for recipes from the parents of very happy two year olds. Once you master making these oversized cookies (and Klivans makes it easy for a non-baker like me to do so), you'll never go back to little ones.

Fun and easy cookie recipies

Elinor Kivans's new cookie book is filled with new ideas and variations on old favorites. Check out the Celebration Sugar Cookies on page 76 -- the snowman decorations are wonderfully fanciful. The book has crisp graphics and great photos, which are always a motivation to try something new. I also like how easy the recipies are. The recipies don't require any fancy equipment or a lot of time. This book is great for both the novice and experienced baker.

BIG FAT COOKIES IS GREAT!!!

What fun these cookies are to make as well as eat! Most are easy to put together and hard to give away. Like Klivans' other books, there is a lot of extra helpful information about equipment and ingredients. A must for every cook, new or experienced!