Bar Cookies A to Z

by Marie Simmons, Susan Marie Anderson (Photographer)

In this tempting collection, Marie Simmons brings together 50 recipes for North America's favorite kind of cookie-each one inventive enough for the most daring baker, yet simple enough to ensure the beginner perfect results. The most comprehensive book of bar cookie available, it includes all the traditional offerings, like brownies, hermits, fig bars, peanut-butter-chocolate bars and jam bars as well as delightfully sophisticated treats --Lemon Love Notes --Chocolate-Frosted Chocolate Espresso Bars --Toffee-Fudge Crunch Bars --White & Bittersweet Chocolate Chunk Bars

Genres: Cookbooks, Cooking, Nonfiction

128 pages, Hardcover

First published October 15, 1994

About the author

"I am an award winning cookbook author, prolific food writer and popular cooking school teacher, but mostly I am a passionate and dedicated cook. Most days you will find me in my sunny Mexican tiled kitchen cooking for friends and family and coming up with great tasting recipes for my blog, magazine features and cookbooks.

You might be familiar with my recipes through the Cooking for Health column I wrote for Bon Appetit magazine for many years. Or, perhaps you have one of my cookbooks in your collection. Some of my most popular books are the award winning The Good Egg and Lighter Quicker Better (written with Richard Sax), Fresh & Fast, Fig Heaven, Sur La Table’s Things Cooks Love, The Amazing World of Rice and the best selling 365 Ways to Cook Pasta. My latest, just released book is Fresh & Fast Vegetarian: Recipes that Make a Meal.

The hours I spend in my kitchen bring me back to childhood play dates cooking beside my mother and grandmother. These two excellent family cooks taught me how important it is to make sure everyone has something good to eat. Every day, I hear their words, and I do the same."

Reviews

[Austin · Rating 5 out of 5]

Had Some Really Great Recipes.

[Sara · Rating 3 out of 5]

A great collection of recipes. There were a few that I had to adjust & a couple that just didn’t work, but overall, a tasty collection

[Catherine Woodman · Rating 3 out of 5]

Small book, out of print now, but you can get it used for less than a dollar, and great pictures. I am trying to get into bars because when you are doing volume baking, bars are a way to get a number of pieces in a short time.

[Barb Bailey · Rating 4 out of 5]

Many good bar cookie recipes.

[Kim · Rating 2 out of 5]

Had some ideas that I never thought of, but still many recipes that I have seen versions of before.