Cookie Recipes
Find the best cookie recipe for your food business
A good cookie recipe will delight your customers and bring them back for more. Everyone loves cookies! There is no shortage of creative ideas for baking cookies, either. Whether you choose simple and quick bar cookies, traditional favorites (like chocolate chip), foreign favorites or something entirely unique, you're bound to create something your customers will remember.When seeking cookie recipes and cookie recipe tips, look for cookies your customers are familiar with, as well as some that will be probably be new to them. Then, display them well and you'll be making many impulse sales. When researching cookie recipes, try the following:
1. Seek an online cookie recipe that appeals to you or has been reviewed by online readers.
2. Buy a cookie recipe book written by an established cookbook author.
3. Test several cookie recipes and cookie recipe ingredients in your kitchen, choosing only the very best concoctions for your customers.
Select an online cookie recipe
Recipes found online have the advantage of being free, and often they are reviewed by fellow bakers (although most are amateur). Although it makes sense to look for a cookie recipe at a well-established recipe website, don't neglect smaller websites dedicated to cookies.
Try: Cookie-Recipes.net offers many free cookie recipes, such as banana cornmeal cookies, German chocolate bars, inside-out chocolate chip cookies and oatmeal lacies. Joyofbaking.com has a large collection of free cookie recipes, including those for biscotti, shortbread, chocolate chip, gingerbread and linzer cookies. BakingCookies.com also has a large database of free cookie recipes organized by type: balls, bars, toffee, chocolate and so on.
Find a cookie recipe card for "healthy" cookies
Assuage your customers' guilt by offering healthy cookies, too. You can make a cookie healthier simply by using whole wheat flour, but also consider low-sugar or sugar-free cookies, cookies with only natural ingredients and cookies with less fat.
Try: Eating Well provides cookie recipes that are carefully sweetened, free of hydrogenated fat and contain all-natural ingredients; recipes include apple-oatmeal, cranberry-honey spice pinwheel and spiced pumpkin cookies. AllHomemadeCookies.com has free cookie recipes with no refined flour, no eggs, no sugar or reduced sugar.
Make use of a cookie recipe book
A good cookie recipe book is a must if you have serious interest in baking cookies for your customers. Not only will a cookbook offer tested recipes, but it should offer excellent general baking tips that can help make cookies easy to prepare and delicious to eat.
Try: Bed, Bath & Beyond sells "Martha Stewart's Cookies," containing 175 cookie recipes, plus baking tips. Tower.com offers "500 Cookies" by Susannah Blake, which is full of techniques, tips and recipes.
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