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Cooking Books -> Desserts
Alice Medrich's Cookies and Brownies
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by:
Medrich, Alice
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Publisher:
Warner Books
Published: October 1999
ISBN: 0446523828
Format:Hardcover
Pages:120
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Book Description
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In Alice Medrich's Cookies and Brownies, the goal is perfect results. For Medrich, a playful perfectionist who writes with wit, perfection includes big flavors, "noisy textures" that crunch and crackle, and lots of chocolate. Achieving it
requires paying attention to details, such as using unsifted, bleached, all-purpose flour, measured so a cup weighs close to five ounces. Other meticulously detailed advice helps you make evenly baked cookies that are tender and rich, not dry or
tough.
There are about 50 recipes in this book. Each is a gem, from the most buttery shortbread (using melted butter is a key) to the most sophisticated, barely sweet chocolate-chunk cookie, truly tangy lemon wafers, and incredibly easy Almond
Macaroons. For killer brownies, Medrich offers a new technique she calls the Steve Ritual. Guaranteed to make the outside crustier and the inside creamier, it involves a pan of ice water. Beyond cookie recipes, Medrich includes a doubly peanutty filling
for sandwich cookies and a careful guide to chocolate-dipping your favorite cookies and biscotti.
Luscious color photos and enchanting line drawings illustrate this articulate, one-of-a-kind cookie book. --Dana Jacobi
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"MEDRICH IS THE ULTIMATE DESSERT EXPERT." -Los Angeles Daily News When foremost dessert chef Alice Medrich turned her attention to cookies, the most basic of desserts, something wonderful happened-an unparalleled
collection of quick and easy recipes for the most deliciously dainty and divinely decadent cookies and brownies you'll ever taste.
Her name has become synonymous with rich, elegant, mouthwatering chocolate desserts. Now the award-winning dessert
maven who's been dubbed America's "First Lady of Chocolate" by Entrepreneur magazine gives cookie lovers everywhere an irresistible treat: a world-class cookbook packed with more than fifty of Alice Medrich's favorite foolproof and gloriously unfussy
recipes for such sweet sensations as Chocolate Decadence Cookies, Lemon Wafers, Espresso Swirl Brownies, and Toffee Bars.
A consummate professional who adheres to the highest standards, Alice Medrich also imparts the hard-won baking wisdom that
has made her a culinary star. Here are her tricks and proper techniques for choosing ingredients, mixing, rolling, decorating, and baking that ensure consistently superior results...and elevate cookie baking to an art.
Perfect for both serious
"foodies" and novice cooks, gorgeously illustrated with twenty-five full-color photographs, ALICE MEDRICH'S COOKIES AND BROWNIES is a celebration of fabulous cookies from a chef who knows-and delights in letting us in on-the secret.
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