The Cookie Dough Lover's Cookbook

This cookbook isn't a specifically kosher cookbook, although all the recipes are kosher friendly (and can easily be made parve). I really like the ideas in this cookbook so I'm posting a review here.

I was browsing Amazon for cookbooks a few weeks ago and noticed this one on one of their bestseller lists. It look interesting so I checked my library and they had it.

The author has a cooking blog and always loved cookie dough, but because of fears of salmonella refrained from snacking on cookie dough. One day, she experimented and came up with a totally awesome eggless cookie dough meant to be eaten raw. She posted that recipe on her blog and it became popular. It became so popular, she wrote a cookbook based on that one recipe.

I made her regular chocolate chip cookie dough truffles (you dip them in chocolate) and inside out cookie dough truffle (chocolate dough and white chips) for Chanuka and they were really awesome. Dipping them in chocolate was the most annoying part and one I'm not inclined to do again.

She has a bunch of different variation for her basic cookie dough recipe (vegan, gluten free, peanut butter, white chocolate- macadamia nut, inside out, oatmeal raisin, sugar, almond, gingerbread, mexican chocolate), which all look yummy.

The main issue I have with her book is that most of the recipes are spinoffs of that one recipe. The pictures are gorgeous, but I wouldn't buy a cookbook for one recipe. A lot of her recipes seem to overdo the cookie dough (cookies stuffed with cookie dough, brownies stuffed with cookie, cupcakes with cookie dough, cake with cookie dough in the middle instead of frosting etc.)

I loved the original cookie dough and the inside out variation I tried. I would like to try the peanut butter cookie dough, oatmeal raisin/chocolate chip, vegan and gingerbread. I also want to see if the basic recipe would work with oil instead of butter/margarine.

She has a recipe for Invisible Cookie Dough Ice Pops that can easily be made parve. They look interesting and I do want to try them before I need to return the book.

If your library has this book, it might be fun to check out. The basic recipes are pretty kid friendly and the pictures are amazing.

Truffle pictures:
Regular

Inside out

Here's a link to her basic cookie dough recipe: http://www.loveandoliveoil.com/2010/01/chocolate-chip-cookie-dough-truffles.html
I would half the recipe unless you really like a lot of cookie dough.


To purchase the kindle edition of this cook click here to purchase the hardcover, spiral version click here.

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