I get my fair share of free cookbooks from publishers. If I really like the book, I feature it here on the blog. More often than not, those books are not really baking/dessert books, though usually have both in them. So I get especially excited when someone offers to send me an actual baking/dessert book. So when Houghton Mifflin Harcourt asked if I wanted a copy of The Gourmet Cookie Book* I was all over it. My original intent was to give it to my mother after I was done with it. But after having it now, I had to go buy my mom her own copy for Christmas (don’t worry, I didn’t spill the beans…she never reads my blog :P). The book highlights what they feel was the best cookie of that year, starting in 1941 and making and baking its way up to Gourmet’s sad demise in 2009. :( I was a bit overwhelmed with my choices. I thought about choosing my birthday year, only to realize I didn’t have the main ingredient. So I did what I sometimes do to cookbooks, I just opened a page and … [Read more...]