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I know you’re not supposed to judge a book by its cover, but, look at this one!
Cookie inspiration at its finest and without even cracking the cover!
Julia Usher is the author of the recently published book, Cookie Swap: Creative Treats to Share Throughout the Year
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I’m also happy to announce that I will be giving away one signed copy of Cookie Swap thanks to Gibbs Smith Publishing! Details on how to enter can be found near the end of this post.
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Not only does Julia focus on cookies beautiful to look at, but she includes a multitude of unique and delicious sounding recipes such as Rosemary Blonde Brownies, Lemon-Thyme Bonbons and Under Her Thumb(print) Cookies pictured below.
I confess I haven’t actually tried making any of them yet, but as far as I’m concerned all I needed to buy this book were pages like this:
And this:
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You can find Julia’s book on Amazon
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Cookie Swap GIVEAWAY!
Now on to the giveaway! One lucky winner will receive a signed copy of Julia’s book, Cookie Swap
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How do you enter?
It’s easy. Just leave answer the following question in the comment section below before 7pm EST on Tuesday, March 16th, 2010:
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What is your favorite cookie to eat or to make?
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Another way of entering the draw is to retweet this post on twitter. Tweets will be added to the draw!
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The contest is international and the winner will be chosen randomly at www.random.org.
Hope you enjoyed the interview and good luck with the giveaway!
xo,
Marian
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I am recently really loving a chocolate sugar cookie from Martha Stewart. Chewy and chocolatey!
Sugar cookies with icing!
I love gingerbread! The spiciness of the cookies works soo well with the sweet icing.
To eat: chocolate chip cookie
To make: sugar cookies
Chocolate chip cookies with Ghiradelli chocolate chips.
I would have to say chocolate chip cookies! I can never resist them!
So many favorites! My new favorite are these coffee almond ones – grown up chocolate chip cookies! http://thepioneerwoman.com/tasty-kitchen-blog/2010/03/a-tasty-recipe-coffee-toffee-bars/
Peanut butter chocolate chip. hands down.
Sugar butter with M&M for me!
No doubt about it…sugar cookies!!
I looked through this book at a book store, and it looked incredible!
I love oreo cookies! But I like to decorate sugar cookies.
I like gingersnap cookies with a little sugar on top of them. Delicious. Love the giveaway.
I would love to win this book as a gift for a friend. My favourite cookie is oatmeal.
Oh, for eating, it’s definitely Chocolate chip – my family has an excellent recipe, so full of walnuts, they melt in your mouth.
But for making? Sugar cookies! I love decorating them, even if I’m not very good at it yet!
I love a soft and chewy oatmeal raisin!
My favourite cookie is: Pepernoten.
They are very small spiced cookies/treats for our Sinterklaas holiday we celebrate on the 5th. of december in the Netherlands.
I love making and eating whoopie pies. They taste so good and they are a fun little thing to create!
Wow! Those beach bags filled with cookies look almost too good to eat! I love making sugar cookies, but for my fiance, Ghirardelli chocolate chips cookies take the cake!
My favourite cookie to make and eat would have to be homemade Chocolate Chip Skor Cookies!
Gingersnaps because they satisfy so many senses: taste, smell, sound (the snap) and sight (they puff up and then deflate into a nice cracked surface).
I live in Hershey, PA and the best kept secret is not the chocolate. It is the Hershey’s Chocolate World cookies. The Reeses Peanut Butter cookie is my favorite. Seriously, get a cookie if you ever visit Hershey.
The book looks amazing….I really like any kind of cookie but my fav is chocolate chip.
I think my favourite cookie for sure has to be my moms shortbread cookies….they are from an old recipe and are just delicious…
My favorite cookie, would have to be a big, chocolate chip cookie, with pecans, right out of the oven. As for making cookies. I love to make sugar cookies, b/c they are easier to decorate
I love baking chocolate chip cookies and eating the dough raw. I have vowed that when I am older and have my own place, I will always make double batches of cookies. Bake a half, eat a half.
Win, win.
Chocolate chip. yummmm.
Shortbread because it is easy.
a soft warm sugar cookie just right out of the oven.yum
There are so many cookies I like, but my favourite is chocolate cookies with peanut butter filling in the middle of the cookie.
Nothing smells better than a batch of peanut butter cookies! Nothing tastes better than dipping them in milk! — The only downside is the mandatory 5 mile run to burn it off… So I usually skip that part.
my favorite is sugar cookie with soft pink icing and white, pink sprinkles……
I love chocolate chip, the family recipe for sugar cookies! I’m sure that I could find a new favorite in this fabulous book though!
Thanks!
My favorite cookies are pizelles!
My favorite cookie are “my” oatmeal toffee cookies… everyone goes crazy for them, and I can eat a dozen practically before they’re cooled!
My favorite cookies to make AND eat are my Christmas lemony stained glass window cookies. I make them every year and eat way too many.
Your cookies are gorgeous. I love how you use round cookies with pictures oppose to shaped cookies. So inspiring!
My fav cookie has cranberry, chocolate (white or dark) and oatmeal in it.
My fav cookies to make are decorated sugar cookies. I love taking the time to make something beautiful.
I love baking, decorating and eating sugar cookies!
I LOVE eating kourabiedes cookies. I remember as a kid visiting a friend of mine who is greek and her mom giving us these icing sugar coated cookies from heaven. Even now a friend of mine who goes to the Danforth (Little Greece in Toronto) picking me up a box from her favourite bakery. I have tried making them but they never are the same.
Right now I’m loving biscotti, but I’ll bake and eat Toll House cookies any day.
Betty Crocker’s 1963 Chocolate Crinkles! What memories these bring back. I love flipping through my classic 1963 “Cooky Book” looking at all the pictures to find that perfect cookie that somehow captures my mood and satisfies my soul. For some reason the rich chocolate with the contrast of the white powdered sugar, always calls to me! The perfect cookie!
Thanks for the opportunity to win, I’d love to have another book, that I’m sure will bacome a classic, in my collection!
You really can’t go wrong with a traditional Chocolate Chip Cookie. Especially one that is warm and fresh from the oven with a big glass of milk. Mmmmm, cookie.
my favorite cookies are Chocolate chocolate chip cookies.
My favorite cookie to make and eat are Pecan Wedding Balls with the powdered sugar, butter, and pecans! YUMMY! They have to be warm, though. So delicious!
My favorite cookie to eat is chocolate chip
I love to make good ole chocolate chip cookies. I like them just undercooked!
Ahhhhh am I too late, I want to win the book…..pic me random org pick me
Please enter me in your contest to win the book….
Chocolate chip cookies, thanks for the chance!
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