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1.0 out of 5 starsCookies are just ok
Reviewed in the United States on February 21, 2022
I tried five cookies from this cookbook; peanut butter millionaire bars, chocolate covered raisin oatmeal cookies, berry swirl cookies, bourbon snickerdoodle cookies, and mango white chocolate cookies. All of the cookies were just ok, and I will probably never make any of them again.
The peanut butter millionaire bars had a shortbread cookie on the bottom that was almost inedible (I have never heard of a shortbread cookie made with melted butter and it did NOT work). The mango white chocolate cookie was good, but hard to work with and spread too much (even after long refrigeration). We had to use peach for the third berry flavor because the store was sold out of raspberries- but the cookie was sooooo dense and hard. Good flavor- but I think I’m just going to go back to the Neapolitan cookies from 100 cookies. The chocolate covered raisin cookie was just ok- it’s still sitting on my plate uneaten after a single bite.
The bourbon snickerdoodles were good- but not any better than classic snickerdoodles. You can’t taste the bourbon or browned butter and I expected more.
I wouldn’t recommend this book to anyone after 5 cookie recipes and 5 flops. I think it needed some more recipe testing because it’s just not there yet.