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Looking for some new cookie recipes that will knock the socks off anyone that takes a bite? With over 250 recipes to choose from, Tish Boyle makes the task much easier with mouth-watering introductions that describe in detail the appearance, texture, and taste of every cookie.

The chapters are organized by technique, but the recipes are reorganized in an ingenious index by occasion or use: Ship Well, For Grown-Ups, Over-the-Top Chocolate, Bake Sale Bonanza, and the like.

Food editor of the magazines Chocolatier and Pastry Art & Design, Boyle uses her experience as a pastry chef to update, improve, and choose between all those thousands of recipes for classic and best-loved cookies. She also includes recipes contributed by other excellent pastry chefs she’s met, and for the remainder she relies on her own creative genius.

Some examples of the recipes in this great cookie cookbook are: Russian Tea Cakes, Lattice-Topped Linzer Bar and Hermits, and crowd pleasers like Citrus Sandwiches and Blueberry Crumble Bars. These recipes will satisfy every palate and skill level.

The Good Cookie has plenty of handy tips, such as not using a nonstick pan when baking Madeleines (they’ll be over-browned). If you have children, you can also get them involved in helping you make these wonderful easy-to-make cookie recipes. With each step of the recipe numbered and easy to read directions, this book is for all ages of cookie lovers.

Get this book and start making some yummy cookies your family will love.

Have you ever reminisced over candy from days gone by? Or walked into a store and noticed they have your favorite childhood candies? Yes those were the days. The days when you were able to play outside before sundown knowing that you had better be in the house before the first street light came on or else. You remember those days when roller skating, hide-n-seek, and freeze tag were popular games.

The Autumn Harvest Thanksgiving Nostalgic Candy Basket makes the perfect gift or centerpiece for the Thanksgiving season. Filled with good old fashioned candy this delightful basket will make children of all ages happy and satisfied.

The Autumn Harvest Thanksgiving Nostalgic Candy Basket includes candy you remember like:

Apple Heads
Pop Rocks
Necco Roll
Pixy Stix
Bottle Caps
Red Candy Buttons
Saf-T-Pops
Candy Cigarettes
Unicorn Pop
Wax Lips
Giant Smarties
Bullseye’s Caramel Creams
Candy Necklace
Jujubes
Bullseye’s Caramel Creams
Bazooka
Licorice Pipe
Mary Janes

Each box of candy contains over 50 pieces (a mixture of small, medium, and full size candies). Some items may be substituted when necessary.

Total weight: 3 pounds.
$24.48 Product by Candy Crate.

This is a great basket to take along when you have class reunions, girlfriend get-a-ways, and for other events where childhood memories will be a topic of conversation. Don’t let this treasure find go without getting one for yourself. Pick up one of these baskets and watch the talks of days gone by liven up as people take a lick of Unicorn Pop or pretend to smoke a Candy Cigarettes.

Looking for a different pizza recipe that doesn’t include just sauce, cheese, and pepperoni?  This pizza cookbook is great for trying new recipes of pizzas like Chicago Pizza, California, New York, and talian. Pizza: More than 60 Recipes for Delicious Homemade Pizza has beautiful pictures included to help you see just how amazing your pizza will look.

Pizza is a cookbook for any type of chef that wants to make a homemade pizza in their own kitchen. Author Diane Morgan and five time world pizza-throwing champion Tony Gemignani share the secrets of making pizza, for example: tips for proper use of such related gear as peels, stones, tiles, pans, grills, and ovens. Not only does it take you through the recipe, but it also teaches you how to mix and toss the dough. Tony himself teaches the reader step-by-step dough tossing instructions that are clear and precise.

There are over 60 selections on the menu, including the thick, rounded-edge crust of classic Neapolitan pizza Margherita, the thin crust New York style Italian Sausage and Three Pepper Pizza, and the stick-to-your-ribs, deep-dish kind, smothered in spinach and mozzarella.

There are also plenty of new-fangled pizzas: layered with Thai curry flavored chicken or pineapple; cooked on the grill; even quick and easy versions using store-bought crust. Pizza fanatics will find six pizza dough recipes ready to suit anyone’s crust preferences.

With the cookbook’s great thick and semi gloss pages, you’ll love the pictures and the ability to wipe-off any mess you might make while making your masterpiece. Pizza: More than 60 Recipes for Delicious Homemade Pizza also makes a great gift for that pizza lover who wants to try something new. If you love to make pizza, this cookbook should be in your hands.

Halloween is my husband’s favorite holiday.  We decorate the house, go to the orchards and hit all of the Halloween Super Stores in search of that perfect addition to our decoration collection.  But what is my favorite part of Halloween?  To hear my girls run up to the houses in our neighborhood screaming “Trick or Treat!”.

Many of us have said that same phrase, or maybe some variation of it, from the first time we ever put on a costume. My kids over the years have picked up cute little rhymes and put them to good use to get the nights loot from our neighbors. However, do we ever give thought to how we came to this tradition of candy grabbing overload?

The Celts celebrated Samhain, which is where trick or treating began.  The pagans celebrated mother nature and her gifts. It was believed that on Hallows Eve the boundaries between life and death faltered, and that the dead once again walked the earth.

Offerings of food and drink would be left on doorsteps, and it was believed that this would appease the spirits and protect the crops for another year. This is also where a tradition called “souling” was started.

The act of souling was comprised of food in exchange for prayer.  The village poor would go door to door begging for food during this celebration.  If the beggars agreed to pray for the souls of the givers dead loved ones, food would be given to them.

As the years passed the tradition became food left on doorsteps for the village’s less fortunate who who would continue to pray for the souls of the dead. Eventually, the adults began sending children door to door to collect food or money for their family.

In some countries, the wearing of masks and receiving of gifts is still called “souling.” Small food items or money are still received by children. Trick or treating is a thoroughly modern and American tradition.

When it first started, trick or treating was exactly that. If a neighbor didn’t provide treats, the costumed person would perform some trick. This could range from innocent pranks to their house being egged. There are some countries that believed this was mischievous spirits. If the spirit didn’t receive food, they were likely to do something to the person of the house.

Today, our children go from house to house, saying “Trick or Treat” and receiving a load of sweet treats. Families travel from neighborhood to neighborhood for sweet treasures. Tricks tend to run more towards the fun rather than an attack on anyone in particular.  To signal that a home is not participating, they simply turn off their porch light so that it signals children know to move past that home.

As with anything, there are still the occasional trouble makers that egg houses, toilet paper trees, etc.  However, with the increase of police patrols working overtime on Halloween night, it seems most neighborhoods go without incident these days.  Today even the adults get into the Halloween spirit by way of fog machines, costumes and elaborate scenes for the kids to traverse through to get to the prize of a few sweet bits.

No matter how you choose to celebrate Halloween, remember to take a moment and tell your kids the origin of where this fun tradition started.  Then you can start them on their way to search for the mother load of sugary treasure that awaits them, just watch out for those mischievous souls that may still be wandering.

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