Review: Mrs. Fields Best Cookie Book Ever!

admin — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 03:07:38 +0000

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.

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Review: A Baker’s Field Guide to Cupcakes

admin — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 00:51:51 +0000

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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