Sweet Maria's Cookie Jar

Sweet Maria's Cookie Jar
Author: Maria Bruscino Sanchez
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Total Pages: 229
Release: 2002-10-25
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 1429941553

For a sweet snack or a delectable dessert, Maria Bruscino Sanchez, baker and author of three previous cookbooks, offers this cookie collection of family recipes, popular bakery treats, classics, and variations on familiar favorites. Cookies and cookie-lovers come in all shapes, sizes, and tastes, and this book has something for everyone, including Cappuccino Drops, Cheesecake Squares, Amaretto Biscotti, Chocolate Nutella Sandwiches, Italian Love Knots, classic Chocolate Chip, and a selection of low-fat, low-sugar, and gluten-free cookie recipes. Complete with information on ingredients, kitchen equipment, as well as baking tips and techniques, this collection of easy to make recipes is sure to produce tasty results. Whether you like your cookies dropped, rolled, filled, piped, or fried, Sweet Maria's Cookie Jar has the recipe you're looking for, and more than a few you'll be thrilled to discover.

Sweet Maria's Italian Desserts

Sweet Maria's Italian Desserts
Author: Maria Bruscino Sanchez
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 178
Release: 2000-10-20
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 031224133X

A collection of recipes for Italian desserts that provides simple instructions, tips from the bakery, and background information on the customs and history of the desserts.

Small, Sweet, and Italian

Small, Sweet, and Italian
Author: Maria Bruscino Sanchez
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2013-09-17
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 1250026679

"In her newest baking book, everyone's favorite Italian baker, Maria Bruschino Sanchez of Connecticut's Sweet Maria's Bakery, takes the mini sweet treat trend on an eye-opening Italian vacation highlighting classic Italian treats, like cannoli and sfogliate, in small sizes for scrumptious small bites while offering readers an trove of new recipes that are hers alone--tiny cappuccino hazelnut or Bellini cupcakes, bite-sized orange cornmeal cakes, mini jelly-filled bombolini, individual pear and fig crostatas, mini cornetti and tangy limoncello tartlets. Sanchez fills tiny parfait glasses and baking dishes' with Arborio Rice Pudding Parfaits, Pannetone Bread Pudding and White Chocolate Hazelnut Tartufo. Small, Sweet and Italian includes more than seventy-five recipes with easy to follow instructions that will turn any kitchen into a Sweet Maria Kitchen. So, this fall, think "small, sweet, and Italian" when you're looking for dessert with an Italian twist!"--

The New Lasagna Cookbook

The New Lasagna Cookbook
Author: Maria Bruscino Sanchez
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Total Pages: 178
Release: 2008-09-16
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 1429964847

Maria Bruscino Sanchez has a secret: she's just wild about lasagna. She just can't get enough of that hearty deep-dish Italian favorite, stuffed with juicy fillings, sauced to perfection and bubbling over with cheesy goodness. But she also knows she's not alone. In The New Lasagna Cookbook, Maria gives every lasagna lover their heart's desire. She has scoured the world for inspiration to create a book brimming with delectable lasagna triumphs from traditional versions to classics with a twist to new-wave, meat and vegetarian varieties. Tempt the taste buds with such crowd-pleasers as Lasagne Quattro Formaggi, Artichoke and Spinach Lasagna, Pulled Pork Barbecue Lasagna, and many others. Completing the book with starters and salads, as well as some delicious desserts, Sanchez provides the tasty blueprint for a meal bursting with flavor for every craving. Her easy-to-follow and engaging style gives beginning cooks an excellent primer on lasagna basics while seasoned kitchen veterans will find themselves joining her on a culinary trip around the world. Perfect for family dinners big and small, as well as the best answer to the perennial question "What should I bring?" The New Lasagna Cookbook is destined to become a well-worn classic on the shelf of home cooks everywhere.

Sweet Maria's Italian Cookie Tray

Sweet Maria's Italian Cookie Tray
Author: Maria Bruscino Sanchez
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 132
Release: 1997-07-15
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 9780312156701

Six years ago, Maria Bruscino Sanchez opened a bakery in her hometown of Waterbury, Connecticut, to satisfy the ever-increasing orders for her cookies and cakes, baked from handed-down recipes. Today, Sweet-Maria's is a booming business that has garnered terrific reviews, numerous baking awards, and a passionately devoted clientele. This book collects 65 of Maria's most asked-for recipes. Line illustrations.

Sweet Maria's Italian Desserts

Sweet Maria's Italian Desserts
Author: Maria Bruscino Sanchez
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Total Pages: 199
Release: 2000-10-20
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 1429941170

Sweet Maria's Italian Desserts is baker Maria Bruscino Sanchez's loving tribute to the desserts her family has enjoyed for generations - desserts you'll find in Italy and in Italian-American homes on special occasions and, in many cases, any day of the year. These are festive favorites like Traditional Cannoli, Espresso Cheesecake, Tiramisu, Amaretto Chiffon Cake, Spiced Gelato, and many others. The result of years of baking in Italy, in her popular bakery, and in the kitchens of her grandmother, mother, and aunts (many of whom do the baking at Sweet Maria's), the book includes cookies, cakes, pies, tarts, pastry, sweet breads, frozen desserts, fruit dishes, and other specialties-all made with warmth, tradition, and a love of great desserts. Presented with simple instructions, tips from the bakery, and a dollop of background information on the customs and history of the desserts, these creative, top-notch recipes will bring delicious favorites to your kitchen. "In her latest endeavor, Sanchez serves up enticing recipes for Italian and Italian-American specialties, including the ubiquitous cookies as well as cakes and tarts."--Publishers Weekly

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Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder

Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder
Author: Joanne Fluke
Publisher: Kensington Books
Total Pages: 330
Release: 2013-04-11
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1617731242

First in the New York Times-bestselling mystery series: “A cleverly plotted cozy full of appealing characters and delicious cookie recipes.”—Publishers Weekly Take one amateur sleuth. Mix in some eccentric Minnesota locals. Add a generous dollop of crackling suspense, and you've got the recipe for this mystery series featuring Hannah Swensen, the red-haired, cookie-baking heroine whose gingersnaps are almost as tart as her comments and whose penchant for solving crime is definitely stirring things up. While dodging her mother’s attempts to marry her off, Hannah runs The Cookie Jar, Lake Eden’s most popular bakery. But after Ron LaSalle, the beloved deliveryman from the Cozy Cow Dairy, is found murdered behind her bakery—with Hannah’s famous Chocolate Chip Crunchies scattered around him—she’s determined not to let her cookies get a bad reputation, so she sets out to track down a killer. But if she doesn’t watch her back, Hannah’s sweet life may get burned to a crisp. “Culinary cozies don’t get any tastier than this winning series.”—Library Journal