This week: A look inside Rose Levy Beranbaum’s The Cookie Bible, updated events calendar, recipes, EYBD previews and giveaways

Hello dear members. I am up to my eyeballs in April cookbooks preparing for this month’s new cookbook review due next week. Accordingly, this week’s roundup will be short but very sweet. Today I’ll give you a detailed look inside Rose Levy Beranbaum’s The Cookie Bible slated for publication on November 9, 2021. If you are preordering from Book Depository or Amazon, please remember to use our BUY BOOK button. For your convenience I’ve added the Amazon links here: Amazon US; Amazon CA; and Amazon UK.

Rose is the author of many cookbooks, most of which are devoted to baking with the exception of Rose’s Melting Pot: A Cooking Tour of America’s Ethnic Celebrations and Rose’s Celebrations which share savory recipes primarily.

The Cookie Bible is an epic tome filled with a wealth of deliciousness. The chapters are organized as follows: Rolled by Hand, Dropped or Piped, Shaped by Hand, Rolled and Cut, Holiday Cookies, Bar and Cake Cookies, Meringue and Candy Cookies and Extra Specials. This last chapter holds recipes such as Cajeta, Milk chocolate mousse ganache and Prune lekvar. And, of course, the book begins with an introduction, a “Golden Rules and Baking Gems” chapter and pages devoted to equipment and ingredients.

Rose provides the following details for each recipe. Let’s dissect the recipe for Peanut butter and jelly buttons – photo below: The amount of cookies yielded, a headnote, oven temp, baking time and special equipment needed are at the top of the recipe. The ingredients are listed clearly in a table in both weight and volume. Rose even goes the extra step to tell us how much the finished dough should weigh. Why? We can make sure we didn’t skip an ingredient. If the dough is to weigh 300 grams and our dough weighs 275 grams we can determine which ingredient we missed (in this instance we either left out the egg or granulated sugar). I am so guilty of forgetting an ingredient at times – banana bread without sugar isn’t my favorite.

Instructions then follow: mise en place, making the dough, preheating the oven, shaping the dough, baking the cookies and then cooling the cookies are broken down in easy to read formatting. The recipe for the jelly portion of the cookie is then set out, followed by storage tips and lastly to seal the deal Rose leaves us with a baking gem. For example, “superfine sugar will result in fewer cracks….”. Indeed, Rose is the gem here.

There are traditional cookie recipes which have been perfected by Rose along with some fun selections such as Churro nuggets, Mrs. Swallow’s perfect lemon cookies, Pistachio pavés, and Les pique-niques to name a few. Between Rose and Dorie, all our baking dreams will be fulfilled this fall/autumn.

For a look inside Dorie’s next cookbook, Baking with Dorie: Sweet, Salty & Simple see this roundup. If you are preordering Dorie’s book from Book Depository or Amazon, please remember to use our BUY BOOK button. For your convenience I’ve added the Amazon links here: Amazon US; Amazon CA; and Amazon UK.

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The last week on the blog

Since our last roundup, Darcie has written these articles:

• When it’s okay to be in hot water
• Save time and hassle with this nut-toasting technique
• Getting to know gluten
• New Netflix show based on a book by Jessica B. Harris

Darcie’s weekly food news antipasto is shared every Sunday and the tag #foodnews brings up these information-packed posts from the most current to the first one. Darcie can be followed on Instagram at darcie_bakes.

Roberta Muir has joined our EYB team with a weekly news post from Australia and New Zealand. Roberta’s articles are tagged AUNZnews which link/tag will bring up all her posts in date order. Roberta can be followed on Instagram at robertamuir.

Since our last roundup, I have posted the following:

• Mother’s & Father’s Day Gift Guide
• May 2021 The Great Big Cookbook Club Roundup – please note the Australian Facebook cookbook club added to the roundup started by member Lambsears.
• The Honeysuckle Cookbook – Giveaway (US with 1 copy worldwide)
• Rodney Scott’s World of BBQ Cookbook Giveaway (US)
• Please be sure to check our updated Calendar for author and bookstore events. Many dates coming up very soon!

And as always I continue to update our Kindle deals post so check the blog for new sales – the ICYMI post explains the Kindle post in detail. Our 2021 cookbook preview post is changing every day and this weekend. My Instagram is thecookbookjunkies.

Thanks to our members who used our affiliate links while doing their shopping. The commissions earned help us to index more books, please remember to click here before shopping Amazon USA * Amazon Canada * Amazon UK anytime.

Jenny and the EYB Team

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Recently Indexed Titles

• Southern Ground: Reclaiming Flavor Through Stone-Milled Flour by Jennifer Lapidus – author events
• Vegan Mexico: Soul-Satisfying Regional Recipes from Tamales to Tostadas by Jason Wyrick
• The Nimble Cook: New Strategies for Great Meals That Make the Most of Your Ingredients by Ronna Welsh
• The Elements of Dessert by Francisco J. Migoya

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Member Photo of the Week

Ricotta cake with kumquat marmalade from Dessert Person: Recipes and Guidance for Baking with Confidence by Claire Saffitz submitted by member j.va

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Featured Online Recipe

Lentil taquitos with avocado crema by Jerrell Guy author of Black Girl Baking and the blog Chocolate for Basil

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EYBDigital Previews

Recently we uploaded our 986th EYBDigital Preview where a selection of full sample pages is available for the following cookbooks.

Learn more about EYBDigital Previews.

Note: To learn why you cannot add all EYBDigital Preview recipes to your Bookshelf, please read this Help page.

• 2 recipes and a selection of pages from Max’s Picnic Book: An Ode to the Art of Picnicking by Max Halley and Benjamin Benton
• 4 recipes and a selection of pages from The Pepper Thai Cookbook: Family Recipes from Everyone’s Favorite Thai Mom by Pepper Teigen and Garrett Snyder
• 3 recipes from Dana’s Bakery: 100 Decadent Recipes for Unique Desserts by Dana Loia Pollack Pub date 7/6/21
• 3 recipes and a selection of pages from Nadiya Bakes: Over 100 Must-Try Recipes for Breads, Cakes, Biscuits, Pies, and More by Nadiya Hussain US pub date 7/27/21 We have linked the 3 recipes in the US preview as online recipes for the UK edition of this title.

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Cookbook Giveaways
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• Enter our US/CA/UK/AU giveaway to win a copy of Australian Food by Bill Granger. Contest expires May 4th, 2021.
• Enter our US/CA/UK/AU giveaway to win a copy of Africola: Slow Food Fast Words Cult Chef by Duncan Welgemoed. Contest expires May 5th, 2021.

*Publishers thank us for our continued patience while awaiting the arrival of prizes as warehouses are not operating at full capacity yet. The cookbook giveaway roundup shares all current giveaways.

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