The Artful Cookie: Baking & Decorating Delectable Confections

By Aaron Morgan

Book Overview

Thanks to the careful guidance and boundless creativity of Aaron Morgan, an experienced and talented pastry chef, even the most intimidated cook can achieve spectacular results. Most of these 34 cookies use a simple sugar, shortbread, or gingerbread base, so they're easy to make. Magnificent color photographs and easy-to-follow instructions will have you piping, dipping, and painting these delicacies in no time at all. For pure indulgence, imagine this: luscious chocolate crowns sitting upon a crunch cookie base, covered in a thin layer of mouthwatering white chocolate. Kids will keep on begging for more of the peanut butter and jelly cookie rolls. With so many wonderful treats to make, the cookie jar will never go empty again.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 157990484X
• ISBN13: 9781579904845
• Release Date: March 2004
• Publisher: Lark Books (NC)
• Length: 108 Pages
• Weight: 1.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 8.3" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

Got this for one recipe

This book is fun. but I really got this only becuz I saw the bride and groom cookies and wanted to make them. Consequently, I didn't use those but made the cookies with the flower basket (weaving the fondant etc) and that turned out beautifully. Good ideas for reference.

Awesome Amazing, Aaron does it again

I purchased Mr. Morgan's last book (about Gingerbread Houses) and loved it, I couldn't wait to get my hands on his latest creation. As usual his creativity and talent shines through. I enjoy giving these types of books as gifts because my friends and I are not pastry chefs, we are merely mothers who want to make things that taste great, look great, and that can be recreated without the official title of 'pastry chef' after our names. Mr. Morgan's book does all of this. The colors, the pictures, the recipes, a treasure from cover to cover. Hope my friends don't read this, or they'll know what they're getting for Christmas! I HIGHLY recommend this book!!!

Professional "How-Tos" for Easy, Elegant Cookies

This delightful book shows, step-by-step, how to create elegant confections from basic cookie dough. "The Artful Cookie" explains in simple detail, how to prepare four basic dough recipes and four recipes for glaze, ganache and icings. In clear language, Pastry Chef, Aaron Morgan, outlines easy professional techniques, using ordinary ingredients and kitchen utensils to create delectable cookies you'd be proud to serve anywhere for any occasion. The Artful Cookie is a great present for parents who want to have fun in the kitchen with their children, as well as "the older kid" in all of us. The how-to photos are easy to follow, encouraging use of imagination in creating your very own delectable designs, and the results are downright delicious!