The Best Cookie Cookbooks · Beautiful Cookbooks

Baking Yesteryear insists that chocolate sauerkraut cake, potato chip cookies, and avocado pie belong on your counter, and B. Dylan Hollis has spent hundreds of test batches proving it.

Baking Yesteryear: The Best Recipes from the 1900s to the 1980s cover

100 Cookies by Sarah Kieffer asks the question every home baker secretly wonders—what if you stopped overthinking and started banging the pan instead?

100 Cookies: The Baking Book for Every Kitchen, with Classic Cookies, Novel Treats, Brownies, Bars, and More (100 Baking Recipes for Every Kitchen) cover

Stop buying vegan cheese and start making something better, which is exactly what Miyoko Schinner and Isa Chandra Moskowitz deliver in The Homemade Vegan Pantry.

The Homemade Vegan Pantry: The Art of Making Your Own Staples [A Cookbook] cover

Mandy Wolfe, Rebecca Wolfe, and Meredith Erickson show you how salad night becomes the night everyone's actually excited about in Mandy's Gourmet Salads.

Mandy's Gourmet Salads: Recipes for Lettuce and Life cover

Let Yotam Ottolenghi and Helen Goh's Sweet introduce you to the pastry chef who started it all, with 110+ recipes built on cardamom, rose, pistachio, and the kind of flavor courage that makes a simple cookie sing.

Sweet: Desserts from London's Ottolenghi [A Baking Book] cover

BAKE makes a case that your oven's been waiting for a baker this confident, and Paul Hollywood has the recipes to prove it.

BAKE: My Best Ever Recipes for the Classics cover

Alex Snodgrass brings 105 recipes to The Comfortable Kitchen that prove comfort food and nourishment aren't enemies—they're the same meal.

The Comfortable Kitchen: Bestselling Approachable and Nutritious Recipes for Everyday Meals That Bring Joy Back to the Family Table (A Defined Dish Book, 2) cover

David Lebovitz's My Paris Kitchen shows how Paris rewrites its own rulebook, and modern Parisian cooks follow eagerly along.

My Paris Kitchen: Recipes and Stories [A Cookbook] cover

Nearly 150 recipes so good people will assume you've been baking professionally, which is exactly what Bobbie Lloyd delivers in The Magnolia Bakery Handbook.

The Magnolia Bakery Handbook: A Complete Guide for the Home Baker ― A Beautifully Photographed Dessert Cookbook cover

Mooncakes and Milk Bread by Kristina Cho teaches you to pull steamed buns, butter pineapple cakes, and dumplings that taste like a Beijing morning straight from your own oven.

Mooncakes and Milk Bread: Sweet and Savory Recipes Inspired by Chinese Bakeries (A James Beard Award-Winning Cookbook. The Perfect Gift for Bakers, Baking Fans, and Foodies) cover

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