This book is great! All of the recipes are things that I would bake they are not weird and off the wall like some baking cook books can be.

Maida Heatter, a long-trusted name in baking, said “Happiness is baking cookies — especially when they are as delicious as all these are.” I cannot agree with her more. Because of time constraints, I tend toward the easier recipes in this book, and there are so many to choose from. My children finish a dish before I can even get to them. There are many, many recipes to try, and they range from simple to sophisticated and sweet to savory. In the end, one needs only one good cookie. But it is nice to know that, with this book, you will have many more favorites from which to choose!

What a wonderful book this is! There is an interactive table of contents and it is organized by the type of cookie, such as Oatmeal Cookies, Peanut Butter Cookies,Nut Cookies. I’ve been baking cookies for over 50 years and I was able to find several recipes I’ve never seen before and can’t wait to make. I can assure you, there will be some of these cookies appearing in my Christmas cookie trays this year!

The Cooky Book should never, ever, EVER be out of print. It’s a classic and belongs on the shelf with The Joy of Cooking. When I was a kid, and everyone was poor, we had a friend who baked cookies every Christmas and showed up with a big box for my sister and me. We thought it was the best present we had ever received and waited with bated breath for each year’s box. When The Cooky Book was published, there were our favorite recipes: date bars (by far the best recipe I’ve ever found), Mexican Wedding Cakes/Russian tea cakes, Chocolate Crinkles, Lemon Squares, Snickerdoodles. . . the list goes on and on and on.

So I’ve put in my order for the children who now have children of their own. With luck, they may start their own traditions.

My mom gave me her copy of Betty Crocker’s Cooky Book when I got married. The book is literally falling apart — the back cover is no longer attached, but still sits in the bookshelf next to the rest of the book.

This would make a wonderful gift for anyone who likes to bake. It’s full of great recipes, some of which I’ve made so many times that I know them by heart.

If you like to bake cookies, buy this book. You won’t be disappointed!

Each year at Christmas my grandmother would take out about 20 (it seemed) cookie tins and bake until each and every one of those tins were filled with cookies during the winter months and especially near Christmas.

This is also the “cooky” book we had as children. I fondly remember spending hours just looking through this book and wishing the cookies I wanted to make would magically appear on a plate. Soon, I was old enough to cook the Peanut butter Cookies, Russian Teacakes and Candy Cane Cookies. My favorite page as a child was page 56. A page filled with storybook cookies. Painted and iced sugar cookies.

The contents include:

Drop, Bar, Refrigerator, Rolled, Pressed and Molded Cookies.

Holiday Cookies for Valentine’s Day, St. Patricks’s Day, Easter, Halloween and Christmas.

Cookies for Children, Lunchbox treats, Cookies that will travel, Heritage cookies, Cookies for Special Diets.

Brownies, Date Bars, Ginger Cookies, Cookies made from mixes

Teatime Cookies, Cookies for a Crowd, Confections

Best Cookies

In this cookbook, they say you can use either the traditional or the sifting method. We always used the traditional dip and sweep method for measuring the flour. Then, on the next page they explain why your cookie dough might be too soft. I’ve always found this rather amusing, since you see…if you use the sifting method, you will possibly not have enough flour, at least in my mind. Most cookbooks say to use one OR the
other method.

Some of the cookies you might enjoy:

Old-Fashioned Oatmeal Cookies
Butterscotch Brownies
Holiday Spritz
Snickerdoodles
Christmas Bells
Cream Wafers
Nougat Bars

Definitely a collectable Betty Crocker Cookbook.

~The Rebecca Review