COOKIE THAT CHANGED MY LIFE (ALFRED A KNOPF) (HB)

Nancy Silverton made her reputation as the original pastry chef for Wolfgang Puck's restaurant Spago. One day, biting into a particularly delicious peanut butter cookie, she and had an epiphany and set to work perfecting the rest of the American baking canon. With more than a hundred perfected recipes, this is a veritable encyclopaedia of the very best things to bake. Includes classics like Lemon Bars, Key Lime Pie, Layered Buttermilk Biscuits alongside Silverton’s own inventions like Double-Decker Chocolate Cookies, Iced Raisin Bars, and Chocolate Brandy Cake.