Maida Heatter's Cookies by Maida Heatter

"Cookie recipes so tempting that it could add pounds just during the perusing. No matter how many cookbooks you have, this one is worth adding to your kitchen library."--"People"

"Maida Heatter is the Julia Child of desserts. [Her recipes] Never fail to delight."--"Newsweek"

As Maida says, "Cookies are love, the love of making them, and the love of sharing them." Jam-packed with over 200 recipes for scrumptious bar cookies, drop cookies, rolling-pin cookies, icebox cookies, crackers, brownies, biscotti, and more, this is Maida's absolutely biggest cookie book ever. Based on her first book to win a James Beard Award, it features everything from exquisitely simple Plain Old-Fashioned Sugar Cookies to Chocolate Chip Pillows, Pecan Squares American, and even her legendary Palm Beach Brownies.