The Mason Jar Cookie Cookbook How to Create Mason Jar Cookie Mixes Lonnette Parks

ISBN: 0-7570-0046-0 Length: 160 Pages Size: 7.5 X 7.5-inch Format: Quality Paperback Category: Cooking / Courses & Dishes / Cookies Price: $12.95 Availability: In Print   Contents Reviews

Nothing gladdens the heart like the tantalizing aroma of cookies baking in the oven. But for so many people, a busy lifestyle has made it impossible to find the time to bake at home--until now. Lonnette Parks, cookie baker extraordinaire, has not only developed fifty kitchen-tested recipes for delicious cookies, but has found a way for you to give the gift of home baking to everyone on your gift list.

For each mouth-watering cookie, the author provides the full recipe so that you can bake a variety of delights at home. In addition, she presents complete instructions for beautifully arranging the nonperishable ingredients in a Mason jar so that you can give the jar--complete with baking instructions--to a friend. By adding just a few common ingredients, such as butter and eggs, your friend can then prepare fabulous home-baked cookies in a matter of minutes. Recipes include Best Ever Chocolate Chip Cookies, Blondies, Cranberry Dream Drops, Gingerbread Cookies, Oatmeal Raisin Cookies, and much, much more.

Whether you want to bake scrumptious cookies in your own kitchen, you'd like to give distinctive Mason jar cookie mixes to cookie-loving friends and family, or you're searching for a unique fund-raising idea, The Mason Jar Cookie Cookbook is the perfect book. It just may bring home-baked cookies back in style.

Lonnette Parks has been baking cookies since she was seven years old, and is an award-winning pie maker and cake decorator. The author currently resides with her family in Salem, Virginia, where she is the owner of the Blue Ridge Cookie Jar Mixes company, a firm that specializes in creating gift Mason jar cookie kits.

Contents

How to Use this Book

Introduction

Section 1. The Joys Of Mason Jar Cookies
Introduction
The Ingredients
Making the Cookies
Creating the Jars

Section 2. Fifty Mason Jar Cookie Recipes
On Left Pages: Illustrated Breakdown of Levels of Ingredients
On Right Pages: Complete Baking Instructions

Glossary of Cooking Terms
Resource Listings
Index

Reviews

"Lonnette Parks offers easy recipes like Cranberry Cream Drops and gingerbread cookies."

Woman's Day, December 7, 2004

"A perfect book for the holidays."

Home Cooking Magazine, Nov./Dec. 2003

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