Good Housekeeping The Cookie Jar Cookbook: 65 Recipes for Classic, Chunky & Chewy Cookies
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From Thumbprint Jammies and Chocolate Chunk to Whole-Grain Gingersnaps and Triple-Nut Biscotti, these 65 treasured recipes guarantee youll have a something yummy in the kitchen for every occasion. Whether for after-school snacks, coffee breaks, holiday get-togethers, or midnight munchies, each of these triple-tested treats is guaranteed to come out perfectly.
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Good Housekeeping The Cookie Jar Cookbook - Hearst
Happiness Is a Full Cookie Jar
Cookie jars are highly collectible these days, but I’m still more interested in what they can hold. So many of us have memories of coming home from school and heading straight to the cookie jar. I happily recall ours featuring a revolving series of cookies—Toll House, hermit, oatmeal-raisin, peanut butter, biscotti, and sour cream drops—that I sometimes helped my mom make.
Why buy pricey commercial cookies made with ingredients like palm oil, hydrogenated shortening, high-fructose corn syrup, and preservatives added for freshness,
when baking up your own homemade cookies is so simple? Cookies truly are one of the easiest baked goods to make, indeed they’re often the first thing that a child bakes solo or with friends. My son and his band mates love peanut butter cookies, and if I haven’t baked them in a while, I’ll arrive home to a few freshly baked cookies, complete with fork marks!
In The Cookie Jar Cookbook, we provide you with 65 scrumptious recipes for drop, shaped, icebox, and bar cookies that will have your kids (and child-at-heart adults) stopping by the cookie jar often. These cookies are sturdy enough to stand up to being in a big cookie pile-up without crumbling or smooshing. You’ll find lots of crunchy, chewy, nutty, chocolatey, crispy classics as well as fun new creations, from Chipperdoodles to Caramel-Nut Brownies. Blank recipe cards in the back of the book allow you to share your favorites.
Let’s bake!
Food Director, Good Housekeeping
Bake the Best Cookies Ever!
The good news is that cookies are easy to mix and bake. But because they are so simple, success is dependent on using good-quality ingredients and the right kind of equipment, as well as observing some basic rules when measuring, mixing, baking, and cooling.
It Starts with the Right Ingredients
To ensure that your cookies taste delicious and have just the right texture, it is important to use the exact ingredients called for in the recipe and to handle them properly.
Butter vs. margarine.When a recipe calls for butter or margarine, we prefer salted butter. Do not substitute margarine for butter if a recipe does not give it as an option. For those recipes that do, if you prefer to use margarine, make sure it contains 80 percent fat. Don’t substitute light margarine or vegetable-oil spreads for stick margarine, and don’t use whipped butter, either. Those products contain more water or air than standard sticks and won’t work in cookies unless the recipes have been formulated especially for them.
To soften butter or margarine, let it stand, wrapped on a counter or unwrapped in a mixing bowl, at room temperature for an hour. You can speed up the process by cutting it into small pieces first. It’s best not to soften butter or margarine in the microwave. The microwave may melt some areas, which can detract from the cookies’ intended texture.
The type of flour is important.Most cookie recipes call for all-purpose flour. Occasionally, a cookie recipe will call for cake flour, which is higher in starch and will produce a more tender cookie. Cake and all-purpose flours are not interchangeable, so read your recipe carefully. In either case, make sure the flour you are using is not self-rising.
White whole-wheat flouris another option, especially if you’re struggling to eat the recommended three servings of whole grains a day, It is sold by King Arthur Flour, among other brands. Milled from an albino variety of wheat, it’s as healthy as traditional whole wheat, but lacks the heartier taste and grainy heft. It can be substituted for up to half of the all-purpose flour in many recipes, including sugar cookies or chocolate chip cookies, without substantially changing the taste.
Baking soda vs. baking powder.Both products are leavening agents—they make cookies rise. Baking powder is a premeasured mixture of baking soda and an acid. Do not substitute baking soda for baking powder or vice versa. (It takes twice as much baking powder as baking soda to leaven a product.) Keep both products tightly closed in the box or tin they came in, stored in a cool, dry place so they stay active. For best results, replace baking soda and baking powder after six months if you haven’t used them up.
To test whether baking soda is still active, stir a teaspoonful into a cup containing a little white vinegar; if it froths up immediately and vigorously, it’s active.
To test whether baking powder is still active, stir a teaspoonful into a cup of hot tap water. If the water bubbles vigorously, it’s as good as fresh. In the case of both baking soda and powder, delayed, little, or no bubbling means the leavener is past its prime.
To measure baking soda or baking powder, use a clean, dry measuring spoon and level it off with a spatula or knife.
Know Your Chocolate and Cocoa
This collection includes a lot of recipes using chocolate and cocoa (yum!) in many different forms. You don’t have to blow your budget by buying a super-premium brand, but don’t skimp on quality either. Always use the type and amount of chocolate or cocoa specified in the recipe. Here’s a guide to the types you’ll find in our recipes:
Cocoa powder. There are two types of unsweetened cocoa, alkalized (Dutch-processed) cocoa and nonalkalized (natural) cocoa. Dutch-processed cocoa is treated with an alkali to neutralize its acidity, which creates a darker but less intensely flavored cocoa. We use natural cocoa in our recipes. Look closely at the label when buying cocoa; some are alkalized even if the label doesn’t use the term Dutch-processed.
Do not substitute instant cocoa mix for unsweetened cocoa.
Unsweetened chocolate. Ground cocoa beans (called chocolate liquor) in solid form with no sugar added. It’s sold in packages of 1-ounce squares, (3 to 3½ ounce) bars, or in bulk.
Bittersweet chocolate. Chocolate that has been sweetened. The higher the level of chocolate liquor it contains, the less sweet it will be. Available in bars, packages of 1-ounce squares, chips, and bulk.
Semisweet chocolate. This type of chocolate contains more sugar than bittersweet chocolate. It is available in bars, packages of 1-ounce squares, chips, and bulk.
Sweet chocolate. A bakers’ product that’s sweeter than semisweet chocolate sold under the name German’s Sweet Chocolate. Available in packages of 1-ounce squares and bars.
Chocolate chips. Available in milk, semisweet, and bittersweet