Creative Cookies: Delicious Decorating for Any Occasion

If you buy no other book on cookie baking and decorating, buy this one. This book taught me how to decorate cookies. The recipes are also dynamite. The decorations range from basic to wowza and the instructions are clear. Best of all, the "basic" designs are still wonderful. Your friends say, "oh how wonderful" as you gaze at the ceiling and think, "yeah, I did it with a toothpick!" Everyone thinks you are brilliant and you didn't spend a zillion dollars on supplies or spend a week in the kitchen. Do you have to spend time on the cookies? Of course. Anything worth doing takes time. However, the glace icing is much easier to work with than Royal Icing and tastes soooooo much better. I have recommended this book to every student I have ever had - no one has ever been disappointed. In other words, buy this book, read this book, use this book and you will have a blast and have wonderful cookies as well.

Finally, someone has written a book on baking beautiful cookies, complete with beautiful, clear, full-color photos, easy-to-follow instructions and great ideas for cookie gift-giving. There are many, many (believe me, I've looked) books on cookies, but all of them seem to neglect the fact that cookies can look as beautiful as any cake or pastry. A cake is a good gift if you have a way to transport it, or if there aren't terribly many people to be served from it, but cookies are easy to take anywhere without too much effort, can often be made quite a bit in advance, and can be made in "batches" so that many can share the extraordinary goodies. Toba Garrett is an experienced chef (I've been trying to register for her sold-out classes several times) with an impeccable reputation (not an easy thing to attain in New York City!) who writes in a very easy to understand fashion. The recipes are easy and the cookies astoundingly beautiful (and shhhhh!, they're not hard to do either--but your guests won't know that!)

This was better than some of the other box that I bought but I was expecting more examples

Ok..ok.. so im not into fondant on a cookie or a cake because, well, it tastes gross. HOWEVER..one can easily adapt each idea with color flow, royal icing or chocolate. I was entirely impressed at the quality of work and ideas. nicely done, in my opinion. if you like decorating cookies and need pictures for ideas...this is one i'd surely recommend for your confectionary library.

Great book for the novice cookie decorator! It's full of ideas for all occasions. It takes you through each beautifully decorated cookie, showing you a color picture of what the finished product will look like, giving you the recipes to use (both for the cookie and for the icing/decorating) and giving illustrations on exactly how-to-do-it and what decorating items and recipe ingredients you'll need to complete the chosen product.

I had heard about this book a while back but at the time I was just going to the library to find books but this one was not available so as a new member of Amazon.com I just took a chance on ordering it and I could not have been more pleased....This book is great as I love all things by Toba Garrett and was not let down by her cookies and her style of decorations; I heard this book was a must to have for cookie bakers and I can atest that if your shelf or case does not have it, you are really missing out on a book that showcases cookies like no other cookie book has done before.

Great book. I always baked cookies but never with cutters for decorating. I made her butter cookies and cut them out with my cutters. PERFECTION!!!!! I'm still trying to get the hang of flooding, but the glace icing is delicious! You don't have to do the more complicated techniques, I didn't. I started out slow...brushing cookies with sieved apricot jam and pouring sparkles on the cookies. AWESOME!!!!

nice gift for daughter-in-law who loves to bake

great book

I have flipped through Creative Cookies, and was left uninspired. It seems to be a fairly practical book, with plently of instruction that outlines some different approaches to decorating cookies. It would be great for anyone who is "in between" in cookie decorating (ie. having done a few cookies before, and looking to branch out with some different ways of decorating.) It shows the royal icing flooding technique, covering cookies in rolled fondant, and some basics.That being said, nothing in the book jumped out as amazing to me. I wasn't inspired to make (or try to make) any of the cookies pictured. It was somewhat boring to me, and not necessarily completed with the best effects. Some parts of the cookies just looked lazy to me (there is a spring one, where she talks about painting the flowers on, and in the photo it looks like she drew the flowers on with pencil first! Not that I can say it was pencil for sure, just looks that way. If I got that cookie, I'd be leary.)There are other cookies that have writing on it that has been "fancied up" far too much. To the point that you can't even decipher what is being written on it. And the one that left me most unimpressed was a Welcome Mat cookie for new neighbours. I was expecting to turn the page and see a cute rectangle cookie with woven icing and "Welcome" in the middle of it, but was disappointed to see an abstract blue oval, with the words "Welcome Mat" written on it. Seemed so redundant to me, and almost looks like she spelled someone's name (maybe Matt's) wrong.Anyway, as I say, the book does have techincal merits to it, but I wouldn't expect a book that will blow you away and give you something to aspire to.

日本のクッキー本はデザインがかわいいけれど、今のところ繊細さではこちらが上。ウェディングやちょっとフォーマルな場でも使えるデザインが多いかと思います。美しいカラー写真が多く、ラッピングアイディアも得られることでしょう。

表紙の青色に惹かれて購入しました。かわいい、ポップというよりはきれい、上品な作品が多くてとても好きです☆