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Clinton St. Baking Company Cookbook Review:
Like many cooks, baking scares me. Baking is science. Baking means everything from the amount of the ingredients to timing has to be very precise. Even techniques have to be exact and just so. Still, who doesn’t like to eat warm from the oven baked goods?
As a cook and cookbook collector, I took to ‘Clinton St. Baking Company’ with enthusiasm because the book goes out of its way to offer simple easy to follow recipes. Even the techniques required are easy to follow. For example, I’ve been making homemade pancakes for years, but the recipe in the book offered a unique way to incorporate egg whites into the batter and the end result were the best pancakes I’ve ever made!
How many recipes have you seen for buttermilk biscuits? Thousands? But the recipe in ‘Clinton Street Baking Company’ is exceptional and produces a high, light, buttery and flaky biscuit, one of the best I’ve ever made. And the recipe is quick and easy to follow.
Written by DeDe Lahman and Neil Kleinberg, the cookbook is filled with high color, expertly shot photographs of selected recipes. And although the book offers many recipes for baked goods, it includes egg, soup and sandwich recipes. The recipe for Split-pea Soup is very good; I like split pea soup and this one is right up there with the best.
The dessert section contains some really excellent recipes like classic white birthday cake; then there’s black and white cake and flourless chocolate cake.
Some of the recipes appear to be over simplistic, but then these are recipes for the experienced cook and the beginner, all written to be relatively quick, fun and enjoyable.
‘Clinton Street Baking Company’ deserves to be included in your collection and deserves a spot in your kitchen book rack, at least until you’ve tried half a dozen of the recipes.
A Cookbook review by Larry Garascia
Buy It: Clinton St Baking Company Cookbook can be found at Hachette Book Group
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I love big, soft sugar cookies.
My favorite are oatmeal chocolate chip with milk and dark chocolate.
Chocolate chip
sueparks2003@gmail.com
I like Peanut Butter Cookies with a Hershey Kiss.
Chocolate Chip Cookie recipe is my favorite.
I have several cookie recipes that I love. I would say that chocolate chip cookies are one of my comfort foods, so I would guess it is one of my good chocolate chip cookie recipes.
I like basic sugar cookies.
my favorite is chocolate chip cookies
My favorite cookie to make is Thumbprint cookies
Carole
gram122@comcast.net
My all time favorite is chocolate chips
I love Cook’s Illustrated chocolate chip cookie recipe.
my mother’s sugar cookie recipe is my favorite!
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1 c. soft butter
1/2 c. packed brown sugar
1/2 c. granulated sugar
2 eggs
2 tsp. vanilla
2 c. flour
1 tsp. baking soda
1 tsp. salt
1 tsp. cinnamon
1/4 tsp. nutmeg (optional)
1/2 c. milk
1 c. raisins
1 c. chopped nuts
2 c. Quaker oats
Beat butter and sugar until fluffy. Beat in eggs, vanilla and milk. Add combined flour, baking soda, salt and spices. Mix well. Stir in oats, raisins and nuts. Drop by rounded teaspoonsful onto ungreased cookie sheet. Bake at 375 degrees for 10-15 minutes.
My Christmas sugar cookies are a family favorite, with my peanut butter cookies being a close second
My favorite cookie recipe is an old time called Melting Moments, the cookie itself is like a sugar cookie but with much more cornstarch and cream of tarter. Then it’s topped with a cream cheese frosting. LOVE these! They really do melt in your mouth.
I’d LOVE to have this cookbook, went there when I visited NY with my mom. We had to wait over 2 hours for a table, but it was well worth it. Thanks so much for the chance!
Here’s another vote for the Nestle Toll House Chocolate Chip Cookie recipe, which they include on their chocolate chip packages
My favorite cookie recipe is for cut-out sugar cookies.
My favorite cookie recipe is for cut-out sugar cookies
My fave is the Apricot Horns ( a old family recipe)
My favorite is a sugar cookie made with powered sugar instead of granulated.
My very favorite cookie is a family recipe for “Granny T’s Sugar Cookies.” Unfortunately, this isn’t one of those recipes that you just decide to make and you have cookies in 1/2 hour. You have to let the dough sit in the fridge overnight, roll it out, and keep an eye on the oven every second they are in there because they burn very easily. So, my favorite “I Need Cookies NOW” recipe is the one you make with cake mix. 1 box of devil’s food cake mix (I’ve tried other flavors and this one always turns out best), 2 eggs, and 1/2 c. oil or melted butter. Mix it all together, make walnut-sized balls, plop them on a parchment-lined baking sheet and toss into the oven @ 350 degrees for about 10 minutes, or until the tops look cracked. You can mix in anything you want – chocolate chips, nuts… I often make little mini-cookies and make sandwich cookies out of them with buttercream icing.
Geez… you DID want an actual recipe, right?! LOL
ohmiss14 at yahoo dot com
My favorite cookie recipe is Tea Cake cookies, my aunt used to make them and of course she had no recipe. She couldn’t read or write so I had to play around with the recipe until I got it exactly like hers.
my kids love snow ball cookies
I love peanut butter blossoms, thanks!
I’m a snickerdoodle girl.
My favorite is something called Angel cookies. They are a cross between snickerdoodles and sugar cookies.
My favorite cookie recipe is:
double almond cookies recipe
1/2 cup shortening
1/2 cup butter
3 cups flour
1 cup sugar
1 egg
2 T milk
1 t vanilla
1/2 t baking soda
1/4 t salt
in mixing bowl beat butter and shortening until soft–add half flour and all ingredients to butter/shortening mixture beat till mixed well–add rest of flour—shape dough into 2 8 inch rolls wrap in saran wrap and put in freezer for at least 2 hours—
topping
1 8oz can almond paste
1/3 c sugar
1/4 cup milk
2/3 cup sliced almonds
in medium bowl crumble almond paste add milk and sugar beat with electric mixer until smooth
cut dough into 1/4 inch slices place 2 inches apart on ungreased cookie sheet–spread about 1 teaspoon of almond topping on each cookie and sprinkle with several sliced almonds bake at 375 for 8 to 10 minutes or till edges are firm and bottoms are lightly browned–remove and cool on wire rack
kakihararocks@gmail.com
I love chocolate chip with extra chunky chips!
Oatmeal Scotchies!
My favorite cookie recipe is for sugar cookies, yummy
stanleybilly(at)bellsouth(dot)net
My favorite cookie recipe is triple chocolate chunk
My favorite cookie recipe is for holiday wreathes using cornflakes, marshmallow, and red hots. They are awesome!
jason(at)allworldautomotive(dot)com
I like to make the Nestle Tollhouse chocolate chip cookie recipe!
nancymeyer1 at gmail dot com
Our favorite cookie recipe is one we created… Red Velvet Crackle. YUM! thank you!
info[at]kocoandviking[dot]com
I like vanilla almond crescents
Thank you for hosting this giveaway
Louis
schnitzomage {at} gmail {dot} com
My favorite cookie recipe is white chocolate chip & macademia nut!
I love mollasses or gingerbread cookies
Toll House Chocolate Chip cookies are always awesome! Thanks for the opportunity to win!
My favorite cookie recipe is for Snickerdoodles. mcgillrmcgill(at)charter(dot)net
my mothers sugar cookie recipie
My favorite are chocolate chip cookies.
My favorite cookie recipe is for oatmeal cherry cookies
crazyhippiegirl1@aol.com
I have a bootleg graeter’s chocolate chunk cookie recipe!
ky2here at msn dot com
I love “egg cookies”….its an italian cookie recipe made with eggs, flour and anisette….yum. very light, not too sweet and tasty. My aunt gave me the recipe.
Thanks!
Toll House!
I have a recipe for banana oatmeal cookies that we love
My favorite cookie recipe is Betty Crocker’s Chocolate Crinkles
My grandma’s dark chocolate walnut cookie recipe is my favorite!
My favorite cookie recipe is for Five chip cookies, found in the Taste of Home Cookies cookbook. LKVOYER at aol dot com
I like plain old chocolate chip! captainliss40(at)gmail(dot)com
My favorite is chocolate no bake cookies! Thank you!
I have a Recipe for Cocoons! Love Them!
My favorite recipe for cookies is Nestle Tollhouse chocolate chip cookies
My fav is chocolate chip cookies with pecans
My favorite (and easiest) cookie recipe is the one that starts out with a box of cake mix. I add whatever is on hand………..nuts, M&Ms, chocolate chips………………..
kpintn / at/hotmail/dot/com
My favorite cookies are the old standby, chocolate chip. But I really love brownie cookies too.
chocolate chip cookies
My favorite cookie recipe is my Mom’s date pinwheel cookies.
nblexp (at) gmail (dot) com
I love the chocolate chip cookies from the Fannie Farmer Cookbook.
My favorite cookie recipe is the nestle toll house recipe for chocolate chip cookies! They always turn out perfect and everyone always asks for the recipe! LOL
I love oatmeal chocolate chip or white chocolate macadamia nut cookies. And homemade fig newtons. And gingersnaps. And…….ok I’m a cookie glutton.
And a biscuit recipe that is quick and easy to follow? count me in (I am a good baker, but biscuits are always an epic fail for me!)
My favorite recipe is a mock Samoas recipe very similar to the girl scout cookies. Yum!
My favorite cookie recipe is for sugar cookies
chevybelair1 at juno dot com
I found a recipe that is from the B&B Foothill House in Calistoga Ca and they have a great chocolate Chip cookie called Sweet Dreams.