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The Essential Chocolate Chip Cookbook: Recipes from the Classic Cookie to Mocha Chip Meringue Cake Kindle Edition

by Elinor Klivans (Author), Kirsten Strecker (Photographer) Format: Kindle Edition
4.4 4.4 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
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Chocolate chip-filled recipes that “run the gamut from a variety of cookies and candies to muffins, pies, tarts, puddings, cakes and ice cream desserts” (San Bernardino Sun).

One of the greatest pleasures of life is biting into a warm chocolate chip cookie straight from the oven. Now imagine it’s Chocolate Chip Bread Pudding or Chocolate Chip Angel Cake with Chocolate Marshmallow Frosting. The Essential Chocolate Chip Cookbook offers forty-five recipes that cover all the dessert bases—cookies, cakes, candies, brownies, tarts, frozen treats, and more. Chocolate chips saturate these recipes inside and out, so there’s also a guide to the differences between these tiny indulgences. Using milk, semisweet, bittersweet, and white chocolate, Klivans encourages readers to discover their favorite chocolate chip recipes by, of course, tasting them all!

“If you keep chocolate chips stashed in your fridge or cupboard and want to whip up something beyond the usual chocolate chip cookies, you’ll find 45 creative ideas in The Essential Chocolate Chip Cookbook.” —Tampa Bay Times
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  5. Publication date
    May 25, 2012
  6. Grade level
    8 and up
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Editorial Reviews

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'Elinor Klivans is one of my favorite food writers. I love her recipes and I love her voice, which is that of a reliable, witty friend who lures you in with chocolate. I can never resist her.' Nigella Lawson, Food Network host and author of Nigella Bites and Nigella Express

'This exceptional recipe [called Kitchen Sink Chocolate Chip Cookies], from a new book called The Essential Chocolate Chip Cookbook by Elinor Klivans, delivers the goods.'Fort Worth Star Telegram, Feb 2008

'Need inspiration for that bag of chocolate chips in the cupboard? The Essential Chocolate Chip Cookbook, by Elinor Klivans, has dozens of temping ideas, from (no surprise) cookies to (surprise!) Swiss fitness bark.'Chicago Tribune, March 2008 and reprinted in the Akron Beacon Journal in April 2008

'Mounds of morsels make these studded goodies truly magical.'—Quick and Simple Magazine, March 4, 2008

'This exceptional recipe [Kitchen Sink Chocolate Chip Cookies] delivers the goods.'—Fort Worth Star-Telegram, February 28, 2008

About the Author

Kirsten Strecker is a New York-based photographer.

Elinor Klivans is a cookbook author from Camden, Maine. Her books include Big Fat Cookies and Cupcakes!.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B008846E3C
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Chronicle Books LLC; 1st edition (May 25, 2012)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ May 25, 2012
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 7251 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 128 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.4 4.4 out of 5 stars 15 ratings

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Elinor Klivans

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Elinor Klivans is a notable cookbook author and food writer who has published articles for Bon Appetit, Fine Cooking, Cooking Pleasures, and the Washington Post, among others. A former pastry chef, she is a member of the International Association of Culinary Professionals and lives in Camden, Maine.

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4.4 out of 5 stars
4.4 out of 5
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rebecca
5.0 out of 5 stars love it
Reviewed in the United States on June 22, 2010
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i bought this for my sister, for Christmas, but I couldn't wait that long to give it to her. And I am soo glad I didn't wait.

the cookbook is beautifully laid out, really lovely and original recipes. every photo is both mouthwatering and beautiful.

our first taste of the recipes was the chococlate chip angel food cake with chocolate marshmallow frosting. Heaven.

This is my first introduction to this author, and I am looking forward to building my sister's library with more of her work.

love it. recommend it.
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ohmyhellohi
3.0 out of 5 stars eh.. more like 2.75
Reviewed in the United States on December 4, 2022
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These are okay recipes. They will serve you well but they aren’t the base that I would want to use for my cookie recipes. And she uses a lot of the same base for each one.
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rnbaker
5.0 out of 5 stars another hit
Reviewed in the United States on January 12, 2008
This is another great book from elinor klivans. All of her recipes have clear instructions and give excellent results. I have made the cookie dough cheesecake and hot brownie sundae - both easy and very delicious!!! One drawback is that the print of the ingredients list is very light and small - somewhat difficult to read and requires double checking.
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Stephanie Pendergrass
4.0 out of 5 stars Great for serious chocolate chip lovers
Reviewed in the United States on February 11, 2010
I've made just a couple recipes so far and they have both turned out well (even the pie crusts made from scratch, which I have never done before!). The instructions are very clear.
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H. Grove (errantdreams)
3.0 out of 5 stars Not up to Chronicle's usual standards
Reviewed in the United States on April 3, 2008
Elinor Klivans's The Essential Chocolate Chip Cookbook is absolutely lovely, including a decent number of color photographs, a clean layout, and easy-to-read recipes. The pages are thick and somewhat glossy, comparatively easy to keep clean. You'll find everything in here from cookies to bar cookies, muffins to pies, tarts and puddings to cakes, and of course, ice cream desserts. The table of contents names each and every recipe, while the index allows you to look up recipes by major ingredient. If you want to find that lovely banana cream pie with graham cracker crunch, you can look under 'bananas' in the index or the 'pies' chapter in the table of contents.

The first recipe we made was a cinnamon and chips chiffon cake. Unfortunately, the mini-chips sank straight through the batter during baking, stuck to the pan, and then largely stayed behind when the cake was removed, leaving the cake with holes and a thick layer of remaining chocolate chips at the top. We made banana-oatmeal chocolate chip cookies; every person who tried them agreed they would have been better with about half the chips in them.

The real kicker was the cookie dough cheesecake bars, however. In the photo, a full layer of cheesecake filling sits atop a graham-chocolate chip crust. Small blobs of crispy baked chocolate chip cookie dough obscure some of the filling, and lines of chocolate drizzle criss-cross the entire thing. In reality, the crust kept falling apart; the layer of cheesecake was minimal and difficult to taste amongst everything else; the 'cookie dough' was far too abundant and didn't come together as a dough; and if we'd actually included the drizzled chocolate, the result would have tasted overwhelmingly of chocolate. Our guess is that there should have been about twice as much cheesecake filling; the crust perhaps needed a bit more butter; and the cookie dough needed more liquid (a little milk? an egg?) and should have been halved.

The flavors are good, if unbalanced (the chocolate overwhelmed the other flavors in the recipes). The book is beautiful. Unfortunately, not a single recipe we tried came out great, and they tended to have noticeable 'issues.' As much as I love Chronicle cookbooks on the whole, this is not one of their best.
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