And I have collected quite a few slice & bake cookie recipes over the years. So to find a book solely dedicated to slice and bake cookies made my heart race a bit. I am a real fan.
Do you understand what is meant by "slice & bake"? You mix up your dough (it is a fairly firm dough), you roll it into logs (I do it on wax paper; others do it or parchment), wrap in plastic wrap, and place in the frig to harden. You can leave it like that an hour or so or a few days before unwrapping, slicing and baking. You can bake a sliced up "log" of cookies now, and wrap another log in foil and put it in the freezer for later. A frozen log is always helpful to have when you learn that company is coming. With ease, you can defrost a log, slice it, and bake it to coincide with your guests arrival.
There are some very nice recipes included. The slice & bake cookies in
Simply Sensational Cookies
are a bit more sophisticated, but that doesn't hold me back from giving this book a five-star rating. This book is dedicated to slice & bake, while Simply Sensational Cookies only dedicates a chapter to it.
I especially like that I now have a slice & bake recipe for my husbands favorite: Old-Fashioned Oatmeal. The Espresso and Dark Chocolate cookie is not quite as good as the one in Simply Sensational, but it is quicker to make. We always have multitudes of pecans (from the trees in our yard), so I was quite happy to find a sandwich cookie with caramel filling and pecans, and a very nice Butter Pecan Bow-Tie cookie. I like the ideas for the different shaped (as in not only round) cookies. Shortbread cookies always go over big in our house and the Square Lemon Shortbread is a major "keeper". There is also a Neapolitan Striped Crisp that will look good on a cookie platter.
The chapter on sandwich cookies doesn't thrill me like the other chapters do, mainly because they are not "fast" to make. But I really like the chapter on savory cookies. We don't make a lot of cookies during the summer and the cookies I just rolled up and tucked away in the freezer will hold us for quite a while. (It's not recommended, by I have kept cookie logs in the freezer for three months without any noticeable lessening in flavor or texture.) But I am looking forward to baking many, many of these savory cookies to go with the many cold dinners that I prepare in summertime. I'll just bake early in the morning.
The only gripe I have is that there are not more recipes, but then the book is priced accordingly.
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One of my all time favourite recipe books
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 7, 2015