Cocoa Ginger Crisps

I really liked these cookies. I love a good ginger cookie, and the hint of chocolate in these is great.

Also I don't think that I have made any other cookies that call for corn syrup in them. Sorry, folks I have nothing against corn syrup and I will continue to use it when called for.

This recipe comes of The Cookie Bible in the Hand-Formed Cookie section - I didn't hand form these cookies, I used my small cookie scoop instead - hey if I don't have to get my hands dirty I won't!
Changes that I made - the book calls for an oven at 350 baked for 10 to 12 mins, I changed it to an oven at 325 for crisp prefect cookies, and 300 for slightly soft cookies - depends on what you want. I find that all of the oven temps in this book are just a tad high.
 I also want to brag here that this is probably the closest that my picture has ever looked to the recipe picture in the book. 

There also were zero complaints about these cookies, when I make my own family cookbook some day these will be in it. You didn't know about that? I do plan on making my own cookbook for my 3 kids, of all the recipes that I have made over the years, so they can have all their mom's/childhood recipes all in one place. I read all the time about people's parents and grandparents passing and they never got such-and-such recipe from them, and they just can't recreate it for all they try. So, I think it would be nice to have it all together in one place for my kids. More recently I have thought that instead of typing out recipes that it would be even more meaningful if I hand wrote each recipe. When my great-grandma passed away I received a bunch of her cookbooks, and notes and I loved the recipes that were written in her own hand writing, they just felt more important to me. I don't mean I would write out 3 copies, write out 1 copy and get it printed 3 times and bound. I don't know though, I'm a bit of a procrastinator.

Rating:
*****/5

Cocoa Ginger Crisps - the books picture

Cocoa Ginger Crisps - my picture

Jingle Jumbles - minus the jumble

This recipe came from The Cookie Bible in the Holiday Treats section. I didn't add in the raisins which I'm guessing is the "jumble" part of the cookie. I don't like raisins, and yes I realize that some other people in the house do like raisins, but I don't. And they can bake all the cookies they want with raisins, but I'm not going too.

It is a very simple recipe I only had to make a couple changes. The recipe calls for an oven at 375 baked for 12 to 14 mins, I changed it too an oven at 325 for 10 mins. I was supposed to hand roll these up into little balls - I used a small cookie scoop instead. I really liked these and would make them again.

Rating:
****/5

Jingle Jumbles

Double Chocolate Cranberry Chunkies minus the Cranberry

Yes, minus the cranberry part because I don't like them - and too bad if other people in the house do! I wanted to eat these cookies. It's not much fun to bake some new recipe up and not be able to eat it because it has something icky in it.

This recipe came from The Cookie Bible in the Drop Cookie section. There is the picture in the book and then a picture of what they actually look like when a real regular person makes them.

I didn't add in the cranberries - just added more chocolate chips. And had to adjust the time and temperature because the first batch ended up as pucks. Recipe calls for an oven at 350 for 11 to 12 minutes- I had to change that to an oven at 300 for 10 minutes.

Out of the 3 people that tried them, 2 people liked them and 1 person didn't. They were easy enough to make but not the best double chocolate cookie I've tried. But, if the family asked for then again I would make them.

Rating:
***/5

This is the books version of Double Chocolate Cranberry Chunkies

Scooped and ready for the oven - the dough was delish.

Double Chocolate Chunkies

I originally bought The Cookie Bible because I wanted to bake my way from the start to the end. I do have many more reviews of cookies from this book to share. But I will no longer be baking every cookie in the book anymore, since the youngest has nut allergies and there are a lot of cookies that involve nuts of some kind in them - so for now I just get to drool over the pictures of them.  I think the book is a good collection of all kinds of cookie and bar recipes. Some people in reviews are mad because some of the recipes come from company's whose brand of ingredient is in the recipe. I don't care about that kind of thing, as most of the brands are from the states and we don't have those brands available to buy up here anyway. If the recipe calls for blahblah baking powder - I'm just going to use the brand I already have in my cupboard. Just because a brand is named doesn't mean you can only use that brand. I might go through it sometime and count how many recipes there are that I can make, and how many include nuts. I own a few solely cookie cook books and I use this one and one other one the most. And it's one of the ones that people that come over to visit usually grab and have a glace through, cause who doesn't love homemade cookies?!