The Cookie Companion: A Decorator's Guide

I met the author briefly when I ran past her at a book signing at Barnes and noble. I grabbed a couple of her cookies for my kids in the car and kept a mental note to check out her book. Fast forward 8 months- I saw the book at gygi and thumbed through it, bought it then and tried her recipes that night. I WISH I HAD STOPPED AT BARNES AND NOBLE TO GET THE BOOK SIGNED AT THAT FIRST ENCOUNTER. She is an artist. This book is truly awesome!!! I am a serious cookie baker. I consider cookies a food group. I host a crazy huge cookie exchange every few years where I make 60 dozen elaborately decorated cookies (10 different types of cookies; 6 dozen of ea type). I’m really into cookies 🍪. This book is an incredible resource for color matching, getting color combo ideas and for a few solid cookie recipes that I will use again and again. I don’t keep a lot of cookie cookbooks because usually I only LOVE one or two in each book and I clip the recipe and put it in my binder. I will keep this book on hand for the chocolate recipe and the color matching- which was a game changer for me. I threw away all of my old food coloring and went with the brand they mentioned in the book so I could used the color recipes. Also, have you ever had a cookie with royal icing and it tasted good? Me neither until this book. I mean-aren’t they usually beautiful yet nasty- not anymore, you can have it all. Yummy cookie recipes and gorgeous decorating ideas.

Georganne Is Easy to follow, Light-hearted, and entertaining Terrific information! I Love the Photographs. I read this book over and over. It's a great reference guide.

This book is worth the price alone just for the color formulas. If you are making cookies that need to match something like wedding colors, this book is your salvation. I've been making decorated sugar cookies for eight years, and matching colors is always a trial and error exercise in wasted royal frosting. Lots of tips. Very helpful. Most cookie decorating books are good for one read and then you don't need to reference them again. This book will be a constant reference.

I purchased this in the hopes that it would have a bit more information for people who have not done cookie decorating for a while. I was hoping for a resource list but I found nothing like that. I appreciated having the color charts that help one to find the right color of icing/frosting. I also liked having some pictures/tutorials of how to decorate the cookie examples in the book. Perhaps my lack of exuberance in this is what I should have realized by the title - this a cookie companion, not a book that covers more detail that I would have liked to have seen. The Chapters: 1 - Let's Get Started 2 - Colors 3 - Color Charts 4 - Color Palettes 5 - Compendium 6 - Index 7-About the author There are some simple recipes for cookie dough as well as icing. I believe I will use this book most for the color charts, as those can be very valuable.

Excellent book with fantastic pictures and directions. Includes recipes and a color mixing chart. Great for beginners and experts.

This book includes detailed directions for coloring and decorating cookies. The recipes and tips were very helpful. I particularly enjoyed the organization of the book and the writing style. It was fun to read which I can’t say about too many cookbooks! I’m on my way to mastering this craft.

a very good book if you are interested in good cookie recipes that wont spread on cookie sheet, or that you wish to decorate the cookies with royal icing or buttercream icing - also formulas to mix colors to get the color that you want - very informative - and useful for when I bake cookies - trouble is, I sometimes eat the cookies before I have a chance to make the royal icing!

Nice recipes

Love this book! It's not only about decorating ideas but explains hiccups in your cookie dough, royal icing and how you can fix it or modify your cookie to be the best! Color chart is awesome! I gave it to my daughter as she is in love with the book!

Excellent book Well detailed with step by step pictures. Very good tricks n tips. Recommended

A lot of tricks and tips.I learn a lot and i wish to practice all of them.I love The color charts

Livre vraiment super, plein de bons conseils, d'astuces, d'idées utiles, de demos de deco, d'explications claires pour faire les choses comme il faut, le plus simplement possible et l'auteure redige ses commentaires avec beaucoup d'humour, ce qui ne gache rien. Si comme moi, vous êtes debutante dans l'art de decorer des biscuits et avez encore de la peine a savoir quelle consistance doit avoir votre glacage royal ou comment obtenir un bleu turquoise avec vos colorants, ce livre est pour vous! Si vous utilisez les mêmes produits que ceux mentionnés dans le bouquin (je pense particulièrement aux colorants alimentaires), les pages declinant une multitude de possibilites de couleurs selon les melanges effectues vous seront super utiles sinon, une partie du livre ne vous servira a rien. Pour celles qui se le demandent, la version reçue est la version actualisee (la première avait ete mal imprimee et beaucoup d'erreurs avaient été constatees dans le lexique de couleurs). Comme les tirages corriges ont été imprimés a peine a quelques semaines après la sortie du livre en librairie, il n'y a pas de 1ere/2eme impression, ou tirage ou edition. Donc inutile de chercher a savoir si ce que vous commandez est la version corrigee ou pas. Dans le doute, sachez que la première page de couverture est rouge dans la version corrigee, bleue dans l'originale avec des erreurs. Je ne savais pas quelle version vendait amazon, mais j'ai commandé le livre quand même. J'ai reçu la version actualisee. Ravie, donc.

Bellissimo volume sulla decorazione di biscotti. Ricette, trucchi, modi di fare - mi è stato molto utile leggerlo! Tante belle immagini poi...