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From Baking with the Cake Boss and Cake Boss: this collection of ten mouthwatering cookie recipes will bring the perfect amount of sweetness to any occasion.
Buddy Valastro makes cookies that are as delicious as his famous cakes. With this collection of ten perfect cookie recipes—complete with hassle-free, easy-to-follow directions and beautiful photographs—you’ll find your favorite recipes. Here are classics, like Chocolate Chip Cookies, Biscotti, and Chocolate Brownie Clusters, and holiday treats, such as Icebox Christmas Cookies, Rugelach, and Linzer Tart cookies.
A perfect purchase for the holiday season, Buddy’s Best Cookies will send you straight to the kitchen to mix up your next batch of delicious, irresistible treats.
Buddy Valastro makes cookies that are as delicious as his famous cakes. With this collection of ten perfect cookie recipes—complete with hassle-free, easy-to-follow directions and beautiful photographs—you’ll find your favorite recipes. Here are classics, like Chocolate Chip Cookies, Biscotti, and Chocolate Brownie Clusters, and holiday treats, such as Icebox Christmas Cookies, Rugelach, and Linzer Tart cookies.
A perfect purchase for the holiday season, Buddy’s Best Cookies will send you straight to the kitchen to mix up your next batch of delicious, irresistible treats.
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Buddy Valastro
Buddy Valastro is the star of TLC’s hit series Cake Boss and Next Great Baker and Food Network’s Buddy vs. Duff, as well as the author of four cookbooks, including the New York Times bestsellers Cake Boss and Baking with the Cake Boss. He is the owner of Carlo’s Bake Shop and lives with his wife and four children in New Jersey.
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Buddy's Best Cookies (from Baking with the Cake Boss and Cake Boss) - Buddy Valastro
Buddy’s Best Cookies
(from Baking with the Cake Boss and Cake Boss)
10 Delicious Cookie Recipes from the Cake Boss for the Holidays—and Any Occasion!
Buddy Valastro
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Contents
Tarelles
Icebox Christmas Cookies
Rugelach
Linzer Tart Cookies
Classic Biscotti
Modern Biscotti
Pignoli Cookies
Peanut Butter Cookies
Chocolate-Chip Cookies
Chocolate Brownie Clusters
About the Author
Tarelles
Vanilla Cookies
MAKES ABOUT 40 COOKIES
This basic cookie—one of the first ones I ever learned to make—is a wonderful one for gauging where you are in your early development as a baker. Because it’s such a no-frills affair, there’s nowhere to hide; its success depends entirely on proper mixing and baking.
When I was a kid, my father taught me to use both hands at the same time to roll these out, so I was able to make more of them, faster, than anybody else in the kitchen. This memory comes up for me often because these also happen to be my son Buddy Jr.’s favorite cookies to roll at the bakery on the weekends, and the fact that he’s able to do such a great job with them at such a young age shows me that he’s clearly got the same gifted hands that I have—and that my Dad had before me.
1¼ cups sugar
2 extra-large eggs
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
1¼ cups vegetable shortening
½ cup whole milk
2¼ cups all-purpose flour, plus more for flouring your work surface
2¼ cups pastry flour, or additional all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1. Position a rack in the center of the oven and preheat to 350°F.
2. Put the sugar, eggs, and vanilla in the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment and paddle on low-medium speed until combined, approximately 2 minutes. With the motor running, add the shortening and paddle for 30 seconds. Pour in the milk and paddle until it’s thoroughly absorbed into the mixture, approximately 2 minutes.
3 Stop the motor and add the flours and baking powder. Paddle on medium-high speed until it comes together into a smooth ball of dough and pulls away from the sides of the bowl, 3 to 5 minutes, then scrape down the bowl and paddle with a rubber spatula.
4. Lightly flour a work surface. Transfer the dough to the
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