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Apparently there was a call for nominations on blogTO’s website for the best custom cakes in the city. I had no idea but I was voted rounding out their Top 12. Truly I’m flattered and would like to thank those who threw my name into the hat (I know it’s not any of my friends because they didn’t even know there was a call for nominations).
This is the story of Mrs. Fields Best Cookie Book Ever!, at least from my perspective. Call it a peek into my childhood; the door to my evitable passion for baking…
This book was the first cookie cookbook I purchased. I was still in high school and I had skipped my Science in Society class just because. Anyway, I went to the Chapters with my then boyfriend and I bought this book. It was odd because, quite frankly, I wasn’t really into baking at the time. What probably appealed to me was that I had tried a Mrs. Fields cookie once while in another city (my hometown did not have Mrs. Fields anywhere) and vowed it was the only store-bought cookie (save for the Oreo cookie) that I would ever eat.
After 10 years, this book still remains my go-to cookie book.
There aren’t a lot of baking cookbooks out there that just wow me. I mean, there are the ones that I depend on and there are others I marvel at the pretty pictures (call me six but there must be a plethora of pictures in my cookbooks). In the long run, I end up writing down the worthy ones into my personal notebook adding my revisions if necessary. Eventually, I do forget about the book unless there are useful conversion charts to reference. However, that is not the case with A Baker’s Field Guide to Cupcakes by Dede Wilson. To me, this is a very useful handbook that gives great ideas, encourages improvisation and simply inspires the artist within.
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