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The Southern Cookie Book #giveaway

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My name is Jenny and I have a problem…well truthfully… I have many problems including why is Kanye West still relevant but I digress, my problem today are cookie cookbooks. Why can’t I pass up a cookie cookbook? Maybe because I love cookie cookbooks – not your Betty Crocker recipes or the same old recipes being revamped by changing an ingredient but unique books that bring something new to the table.

The Southern Cookie Book fits that criteria – delivering some old classics but yet many new recipes for the cookie monster in all of us and even includes candy and fudge recipes.

Southern Cookie Book - Cover FINAL

 

White Chocolate-Orange Dream Cookies, Smoky Mountain Snowcaps, Chai Tea Eggnog Cookies and Hummingbird Oatmeal Cookies await us in this book that has a beautiful photo of each recipe – I really love that in a baking book. We eat with our eyes first – and I pick recipes (at times) with my eyes first. Pictures aren’t always a deal breaker – but they sure do sweeten the pot.

I love that The Southern Cookie Book has so many new recipes (at least to me and I own just about every cookie book out there). Could be my failing memory – but I don’t recall seeing recipes for Marble-Cinnamon Sandwich Cookies, Swoon Pies or Lemon-Basil Butter Cookies before.

Besides the recipes and photos, I appreciate the tips and hints spread throughout the book such as “the scoop on perfect bars and brownies” or “the scoop on perfect rolled cookies”. Even experienced bakers love a good hack to make baking more efficient.

Oxmoor House wants us all to try one of the recipes and have allowed me to share the recipe for Peach-Pecan Rugelach which can be downloaded at that link. Just look how gorgeous they are!

Peach-Pecan Rugelach

It’s been snow raining (my new term) for days now, and I’m going to make a recipe from this title this afternoon before I start dinner. I’ll come back and post an update with the results. Update: I had never made rugelach before and always wanted to — I made a twist on the Peach-Pecan – chocolate and pecans — and while mine are ugly – they taste incredible. The dough is easy to work with and has a wonderful flavor and texture.

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Now for the GIVEAWAY: Oxmoor House was gracious enough to offer one of you a chance to win this title. To enter leave a comment on this post about your favorite cookie. For a second entry, please share this post with your friends – share buttons are below the post to aid you. Be sure to leave a second comment. The giveaway is open to U.S. addresses only and a winner will be chosen on May 15th.

Thanks to Oxmoor House for this opportunity. Random Number Generator picked #38 Laura Benson!

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Comments

  5. 5

    My favorite Cookie is Pignoli Nut – during the summer we call them Sand Dollar Cookies…. Rugelach is a close second!

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  10. 10

    Flourless peanut butter cookies are my favorite. The peanut butter flavor is super intense and they have the best texture.

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  11. 11

    Chocolate truffle cookies. No. Plain old chocolate chip. Or is it Oatmeal craisin with white chocolate chunks?

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  13. 13

    I make twenty kinds of Christmas cookies, it’s hard to pick just one, pecan tassie, chocolate cherry, and ginger creams are three of my favorites.

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  16. 16

    I love too many cookies. Crisoy, sift, buttery, chocolatey. Depends on my mood. A good lemon cookie. A chewy sugar cookie. A chocolatey chip cookie with a chewy center and crispy edges. A snickerdoodle. A peanut butter cookie so peanut buttery that your tongue sticks to the roof of your mouth. I could go on, but no need. I just love cookies 🙂

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  23. 23

    I adore cookies. I love eating them and I love making them. Probably my two most favorite are gingersnap (the kind that are soft and chewy) and soft sugar cookies with frosting.

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  26. 26

    My favourite cookies are toffee crunch cookies and a nice, soft, chewy oatmeal raisin cookie! As a native South Carolinian now living in Pennsylvania, I would love to have this cookbook!

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  27. 27

    My cookie jar always has cookies in it. Love making any kind and always open for new ideas and recipes

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  28. 28

    Francois Payard’s Flourless Chocolate Fudge Walnut Cookies are perfect. They make wonderful ice cream sandwiches.

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  29. 29

    I really like spice cookies like Speculaas, but the chai tea eggnog cookies you mentioned when talking about the book could become a new favorite.

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  30. 30

    I love cookies with chocolate toffee chips. Don’t know what they’re called but yummy!

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  33. 33

    Italian love knots. I could eat a pound of those in one sitting.. They’re labor intensive, but so worth it.

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  36. 36

    Hard to pick just one cookie, but I’d have to say it’s between Oatmeal Raisin & Orange Drops. Thanks for the chance to win this fabulous book!

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  39. 39

    My fave cookie is the chocolate chip my daughter makes. She’d love this book as she can’t pass up unique cookie books either.

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  41. 41

    rugelach – i make them every year at the holidays – something about the cream cheese dough, apricot filling and nuts/raisins gets me every time. a bit fussy to make but so worth it. I look forward to trying the peach version. my everyday go to’s are chocolate chip and shortbread.

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  42. 42

    My favorite cookie is a triple ginger cookie– the combination of dried ginger with fresh ginger and molasses gives it a lovely heat and the candied ginger really intensifies the chewy texture of the cookie. LOVE them!

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  44. 44

    I have this cookbook on my wish list as well but there is nothing wrong with trying to win one. LOL. My favorite cookie is the classic chocolate chip with alot of chocolate chips.

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  45. 45

    I love a good shortbread cookie. My favorite has lime zest and is rolled in turbinado sugar.

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  46. 46

    I’ve never met a cookie I didn’t like but I think my favorite cookie would be a classic chewy chocolate chip cookie.

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  49. 49

    Do you have to ask what my favorite cookie is? 😉 I actually don’t know if I could decide, it would be like picking a favorite child. Levain ccc’s are my favorite if I get to have one (and cheat I would!). Love making my JT/NYT copycat ccc’s.

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  59. 59

    Rugelach, hamatashan, choc chips, rainbow, lemon, and many many more cookies, the more the merrier.

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  61. 61

    My favorite is date and nut cookies! My mother always made them at Thanksgiving and Christmas!

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  64. 64

    My favorite cookies are turtle cookies, with chocolate chips and gooey caramel, plus pecans.

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  65. 65

    Melting Moments. It was the only cookie my Mom and I baked when I was growing up. We used to make them every year and give them as Christmas presents. Though I admit, back then the recipe called for margarine so I actually prefer that taste over the ones made of butter. They just remind me so much of my Mom and my childhood.

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  69. 69

    Sugar cookies have my heart. I love the big soft ones with creamy frosting. I also love these bakery ones that are small and rolled in sprinkles. Honestly, the only cookies I’ve ever had and didn’t love are ones with raisins. I love raisins, just not in baked goods.

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  70. 70

    Shared on Twitter!

    I was referred by a giveaway post and this site was exactly my thing! Happy I found a new place to visit!

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  72. 72

    Chocolate Oatmeal No Bake Cookies are a favorite. as is a buttery chocolate chip cookie, soft in the center and crispy on the outer edges.

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  74. 74

    My favorite cookie depends on the time of year – Autumn is my Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Pecan Cookies. winter it’s Dorie Greenspan’s World Peace Cookies. The rest of the year is the NY Times Chocolate Chip Cookies. Our a bag of Tate’s Chocolate Chip Cookies.

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  76. 76

    My mother made a cookie at Christmas. She started with a date cookie and added nuts, candied fruit. Called them fruitcake cookies. Too bad she never wrote down the amounts of the things she added. Also a chocolate sour cream cookie with chocolate frosting from the original Betty Crocker cookbook.

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  78. 78

    My favorite cookies are mantecaditos – lemon-anise cookies that I make at the holidays. My mom found the recipe in a cookie cookbook years ago, which explains how a family with German roots happened upon a Puerto Rican cookie recipe and incorporated it into our holiday celebration!

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  82. 82

    Favorite cookie. Oh boy that’s a hard one. I love a cranberry oat with nuts cookie.

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  89. 89

    I already commented on my favorite cookie. I spit my coffee all over my laptop when I read your K. West comment. Thanks for the laugh, Jenny.

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