The recipes are smart, approachable, and delicious.
It is, in this dessert-loving cookbook fanatics humble opinion, the most gorgeous book of the season.
In other words, this showstopper isnt the work of mere mortals, but professional artists working their magic.
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Flavors have changed, but maybe cookies haven’t kept up with them, Szewczyk says.
Good thing he is making up for lost time.
Why havent my oatmeal raisin cookiesalwayscontained chocolate-covered raisins?
Red Wine Brownie Cookies, from “Cookies” by Jesse Szewczyk.Clarkson Potter / Chelsea Kyle
Or preserved lemon in your lemon crinkle cookies, or cilantro in your lime-sugar cookies?
Theyre pushing these neat, contained little packages, as Szewczyk calls cookies, to the limit.
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Take theSalt and Vinegar Potato Chip Cookies.
He usesa full tablespoon of vanilla in ninety percent of the cookies.
Just go for it, he says.
The Salt and Vinegar Potato Chip Cookies also showcase the wizardry at play in the book.
For more wizardry, see the smoky chapter, where cookies get smoky flavor from a number of techniques.
In the Smoky Muscovado Sugar Cookies, he usesliquid smoke.
The clever, fun, subtly tangy, and rich cookie is, in a word, perfect.
Want to have your cookies and eat them too?
Maybe the answer is to do as Szewczyk would do: Just go for it and buy two copies.
