
Fabulous Modern Cookies
Lessons in Better Baking for Next-Generation Treats
By: Paul Arguin, Chris Taylor
Paperback | 1 July 2022 | Edition Number 1
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Chris Taylor and Paul Arguin bring fresh perspective and heaps of creativity to everything they bake. Now reinventing America’s most traditional handheld dessert—the “cookie”—they offer 100 reliable and exciting recipes that are sure to impress. From Salted Honey Drops to Black-Bottom Lemon Squares, and Coffee Bean Crunchers to Bronze Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies, these are next-level biscuits. Combining their passion for serious baking with their professional backgrounds as accomplished scientists, Arguin and Taylor apply new methods and rationales for ingredient pairings adapted from food science texts to develop novel base recipes and innovative techniques.
In these pages, they share what they’ve learned in lively tips and tricks for every recipe and style of biscuit. Complete with mouthwatering photos, options to make ahead, decorate or indefinitely adapt, these outside-the-box recipes are the very definition of fabulous.
About the Authors
Paul Arguin and Chris Taylor are accomplished scientists and bakers. Husbands Chris and Paul are co-authors of the IACP award-nominated The New Pie (2019). They live in Atlanta, Georgia.
Industry Reviews
Do we need another cookie book? As far as I'm concerned, the answer is always "yes." Here we have the classic cookie food groups (bar, drop, rolled, slice-and-bake, etc.), but they've been wickedly turbocharged with unique flavor hacks. Why wouldn't you insinuate a layer of ganache into your black-bottom lemon squares? Why wouldn't you powder freeze-dried raspberries for your sugar cookies? And for heaven's sake, why wouldn't you add milk powder to your browned butter for the world's most insanely malty chocolate chip cookies? Prepare your secret-stash cookie jar, folks - you're gonna need it.--T. Susan Chang "NPR"
Taylor and Arguin (The New Pie), two scientists who fell in love and married thanks in part to a shared affection for baking, whip together their passion and smarts in this delicious and dazzling volume. Employing rigorous techniques and innovative flavor combinations, they offer 100 boundary-pushing takes on cookies, from dropped and rolled confections to ones shaped like mustaches and bananas. Riffs on both American and international classics rely on unconventional ingredients to boost flavor. Bronze butter chocolate chip cookies, for instance, use dry milk powder to deepen toffee notes, while the addition of red curry paste to peanut butter cookies yields a Southeast Asian-inspired twist. Insightful intros to sections feature expert ingredient and equipment guides (perfectionists will especially relish the detailed breakdown of scoop sizes and "proper portion placement" for drop cookies). To balance the seriousness, the authors sprinkle in cheeky rhyming headnotes--"The addition of fig/ Is something you'll dig," they declare before introducing their fig and maple nut slices--and nods to cultural touchstones, including the rye and honey-based Everybody Ryes (an homage to the late Stephen Sondheim) and heart-shaped Stonewalls that get their rainbow speckles from Fruity Pebbles. For cookie fanatics, this one's sure to be a hit. Agent: Joy Tutela, David Black Literary. (Apr.)-- "PUBLISHER'S WEEKLY, starred review"
ISBN: 9781682686591
ISBN-10: 1682686590
Published: 1st July 2022
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Number of Pages: 360
Audience: General Adult
Publisher: W W Norton & Company
Country of Publication: GB
Edition Number: 1
Dimensions (cm): 20.5 x 20 x 2.5
Weight (kg): 0.79
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