King Arthur Flour Releases Their New Cookie Companion For The Holidays

The holidays are coming, which means that it's time to start thinking about your holiday baking. Just in time comes The KING ARTHUR FLOUR COOKIE COMPANION: The Essential Cookie Cookbook, in which the employee-owners of King Arthur Flour Company have compiled more than a century's worth of experience in baking mouthwatering cookies.

The KING ARTHUR FLOUR COOKIE COMPANION is the follow-up to the acclaimed King Arthur Flour Baker's Companion (2003), which won The James Beard Foundation's coveted KitchenAid Cookbook of the Year award. The new book features hundreds of cookie recipes divided into nine "Essentials": brownies, chocolate chip cookies, oatmeal cookies, molasses-ginger cookies, sugar cookies, peanut butter cookies, shortbread, decorated cookies, and biscotti. It's the ultimate cookie companion for any occasion, and will undoubtedly provide inspiration for even the most seasoned holiday baker.

From traditional (sugar and chocolate chip cookies) to holiday creations like Peppermint Sticks and Butter-Pecan Rum Balls, each cookie in The KING ARTHUR FLOUR COOKIE COMPANION starts with a master recipe and many include variations to reflect different tastes, textures, and ingredients. Shannon Zappala, experienced baking instructor at King Arthur Flour, is available for interviews and cookie demonstrations. Together, Shannon and The KING ARTHUR FLOUR COOKIE COMPANION can teach you about any cookie and help you learn:

Detailed techniques for turning cookie batters into cones, edible bowls, and beautiful holiday creations
Decorating instructions and ideas for making cookies into dramatic creations for holidays, theme parties, and birthdays
Old world favorites including pizzelles, krumkake, and spritz cookies
Recipes for icings, fillings, and dips
How to weigh and measure and even substitute ingredients when you realize that you've run out of something essential or need to eliminate an ingredient
After 100-plus years of baking and teaching more than 25,000 students per year, the expert bakers at King Arthur Flour have researched, baked, and tasted almost all of the world's best cookies. This all-inclusive, must-have baking resource is the sweet result of their passion for everything cookie.