title: Cookies for Christmas: Fifty of the Best Cookie Recipes for Holiday Gift Giving, Decorating, and Eating
author: Maria P. Robbins
description: Too soon for Christmas baking? Yes, but not for deliberating. This little book, almost literally a handful of recipes, trots out the expected with a simple flourish, making a compact contribution to the holidays. Robbins ( The Dumpling Cookbook ) includes gingerbread menageries, springerle cookies, chocolate madeleines, brownies, ginger snaps, shortbread, lace cookies, meringues, linzer cookies, macaroons and various candies. Her directions are brief, reasonable and personable, but not indulgent. And they are interspersed, occasionally, with appropriate quotes from writers like Bette Pesetsky, May Sarton, William Shakespeare and Dylan Thomas. Robbins is aware of the uses of cookies as decorations, too. The cookies are divided into two kinds: one-step and two-step, requiring less or more preparation. While the book will undoubtedly answer pre-season needs, it would also make an appropriate Christmas gift: small, sweet and serviceable. <br />Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.
zlib_text: Christmas Cookies: 
  A Collection of Recipes and
  Techniques
   
   
   
   
   
   
  
   
  Table of Contents
  Contents
  Part I: Christmas Cookies: Tips and Toppings
  Types of Cookies and How to Bake Them
  Drop Cookies
  Hand Formed Cookies
  Refrigerator Cookies
  Rolled Cookies
  Bar Cookies
  Ingredients for Baking Great Cookies
  How to Make the Very Best Sugar Cookies
  Painted Christmas Cookies
  How to Decorate Cookies
  How to Make Fancy and Festive Thumbprint Cookies
  Cookie Troubleshooting Guide
  Part II: Drop Cookies
  Jubilee Jumbles
  Frosted Brown Sugar Cookies
  Cherry Chocolate Cookies
  Cherry Pineapple Cookies
  Macadamia and Raspberry Chocolate Chip Cookies
  Part III: Hand Form Cookies
  Pink Peppermint Chocolate Cookies
  Mint Dipped Cookies
  Making Cookies with Multi-Colored Dough
  Best Snickerdoodle Recipe
  Snow Topped Mountains
  Part IV: Refrigerator Cookies
  Cinnamon Dutch Almond Cookies
  
  Coconut Cranberry Refrigerator Cookies
  Festive Fruit and Oat Refrigerator Cookies
  Almond Nut Wafers
  Double Chocolate Sandwich Cookies
  Pa