Its review time again….yep Gooseberry Patch cookbook review time.
Boy have I been having fun…a sweet sweet kinda fun! I’ve been baking from one of the newest Gooseberry Patch Cookbooks ~Best Ever Cookies!! Yum YumO!
Cookies…Cookies…Cookies…
Glancing and drooling through this book I wanted to bake something right away. A recipe that I would have the ingredients for without going to the store *mostly because I couldn’t wait!* So first up on this baker’s list are Nut Gems. They are so simple, with ingredients that one would more than likely have hanging around in the pantry and what baker does not keep a supply of butter handy? * Paula would be so proud*
For this recipe you only need six simple items. I’ll share them with you here:
1 cup of butter, softened
¼ cup sugar
2 cups all-purpose flour
1 cup chopped pecans or walnuts
2 teaspoons water
Garnish: powdered sugar
Blend together butter and sugar until smooth. Stir in flour until well combined. Stir in nuts and water. Form into one-inch balls and place on ungreased baking sheets. Bake at 350* for 20 minutes or until golden brown. Cool slightly and roll in powdered sugar while still warm. Makes 3 dozen.
Talk about melt in your mouth! So soft and buttery…the only thing that would make these cookies better is a tall glass of cold milk! Of course you could just drink it out of my tea cup if you want. These cookies are delectable enough for wedding and baby showers because of their charming bite size beauty and impeccable taste!
Double whammy!
Here’s a helpful hint from one of the many pages of this cookbook~
Have you ever baked a batch of cookies too long? No… not me! Haha. Well here’s a simple solution opposed to breaking a tooth and throwing them out the back door: If they’re a little too hard, but not burnt, slip a slice of fresh bread into the cookie jar overnight. Cookies will soften like magic! If they are burnt...throw them out the back door! Thanks Gooseberry! What makes an oatmeal raisin cookie even more special? When it is filled with chocolate covered raisins! Oh yeah!! Who would have ever thought? Well Katie Majeske from Denver, PA did and boy did she have a great idea!! YumO! Her recipe for Hannah’s Oatmeal Cookies is divine! With a hint of cinnamon and almond too… Your taste buds will be happy dancing! They are definitely a cookie jar classic with a surprising twist!
You'll have to get the book for this recipe!!
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Eat them plain or throw a couple of these in a bowl and top with sweetened strawberries and whipped topping and man-o-man. I gave mine a light dusting of powdered sugar as eye candy. My husband loves these…good thing too, as this recipe makes a LOT of cookies!!
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Now that I have got cookies galore, I’m gonna wrap some of these fine eatables up and ship them to New Orleans! My daughter and her husband will love them and I’ll be glad to share them *so me and hubby don’t eat them all*.
And now for the excitement….drum roll please…pay attention now…you get a chance to win this cookbook, right here, right now!! Yep...I'm giving away a brand new copy of Best Ever Cookies.
Boring but IMPORTANT DETAILS TO ENTER THE DRAWING ~ If you are an anonymous commenter or DO NOT have a blog of your own…please leave your name and e~mail address along with your comment and also tell me what your favorite homemade cookie is. Your e-mail address is for the sole purpose of getting in touch with you when you win!! Please note that this give-away is limited to US and Canadian addresses only, due to postage costs...so sorry :) That’s it...simple as can be! I will select one name as the lucky winner on Wednesday March 9, 2011.
If you are not the winner...don't fret! You can pre-order your cookbook here before they hit the shelves. Once you are on the Gooseberry Patch page, just click on the Amazon button for a savings discount!
SIDE NOTE: To read my review of Gooseberry Patch's "Mom’s Very Best Recipes" cookbook …go here …
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i also love Gooseberry Patch graphics…so cute!!
105 comments:
Ohhh...YUM! The cookies all look so good...I LOVE Gooseberry patch! ;D
Excellent review! I post mine soon, but I'm excited to see that we chose different recipes. These look amazing! - www.delightfulcountrycookin.com
OMG's! YAH! cant wait to get our little cookies in the mail!!! Thanks so much. you are the BEST! Loves you!
What wonderful cookies. They all sound so delicious. My favorite cookie has to be chocolate chip or white chocolate macadamia nut. YUMMO!!
Have a God Filled Day
Shirley
Cora oh my...I think I would have to mail those off also...I would eat them all!!lol
My favorite cookie is the Texas Ranger cookie...it has a little bit of all things yummy in it.
Great now I need to go bake some...thanks Cora...lol
Hugs Cindy from Rick-Rack and Gingham
Love the looks of the Amish Buttermilk Cookie!
Kelly
kmarolf@yahoo.com
Cora, now I am hungry with no cookies in the house. I guess I have to bake now and hopefully don't have to throw them out the back door....that has been done here before. lol. great job to you on your review.
The Amish cookies look like a recipe I've been looking for.Chocolate chip is my favorite.Warm Blessings!~Amy
These all look delicious. I have butter softening on the counter as we speak to whip up a batch of white chocolate chip cookies! It's snowing outside and I thought a warm batch of cookies sounded yummy.
Great review and good luck to everyone that entered!
they look soooooooo yummy. i hope you enter me in the drawing. i would love to win this book.
Once again, your review rocks!! LOVE the photos!! You are so talented!! I'd have to say my favorite cookie is probably a sugar cookie with homemade frosting!! :-)
Love your cookbooks. My favorite cookie to make is Chocolate Oatmeal no bake Cookies. Waiting to hear I won this cookbook.
Oh Hannah’s Oatmeal Cookies sound delish!
My favorite all time cookie is Oatmeal Pecan Cranberry Nut cookie.
This would make a great addition to my ever expanding Gooseberry Collection. :)
LyndaLoo
i LOVE cookies...and all of these look divine. i baked cinnamon rolls for dinner, they were fab! but, i forgot to take a picture.
oops! i meant i baked them after dinner...we didn't have cinnamon rolls for dinner. although, i don't think anyone would object.
Now I wanna bake some cookies too! Please enter me, can always use more good recipes!
Please enter my name in the cookbook winning contest! Cookies are my favorite thing to bake! They generally don't take a lot of time, and you can whip up a last minute dessert in a hurry! AND, it is so easy to add your own touches. My favorites are oatmeal and sugar cookies (especially at Christmas!).
Nancy B. = nbowen@sals.edu
My favorite is oatmeal chocolate chip. These recipes look great.
What an informative and yummy post......The cookies look delicious and oh how I want one....or two or three....guess I'll have to bake some......
Please put me in for the giveaway cookie cookbook....I would love it......
BUNANNIE@Prodigy.net
I've made lots of those Nut Gems-they are sooooo good! I think they are called by many names-my Christmas cookbook calls them Russian Tea Cakes. But by any name-they still taste as sweet!
~Debra
These recipes sound great. I especially like the idea of using chocolate-covred raisins in the oatmeal cookies. Lillian Lane, jkklane@surewest.net
Chocolate covered oatmeal cookies sound delicious. Please put me in for the contest. Thank you
Sarah
seputt@yahoo.com
This sounds like a real "must have" addition to my *huge* GP cookbook collection. Our favorite cookie? It's a tie - Blonde Brownies (recipe from my mother-in-law) and Oatmeal Raisin (or choc. chip) which is an old family recipe from my mother's side.
Joyce
jmeinhardt@kc.rr.com
Cookies are my absolutely favorite thing. They freeze so nicely and you can take out however many you need. My favorite is Peanut Blossoms.
Oh Joy!! You can never go wrong with a warm freshly baked choco chip cookie. Keepin my fingers crossed.
YUMMY YUMMY cookie recipes! I want them all and now please!
Those oatmeal cookies look FANTASTIC! I would have never thought of doing that. And I love the first ones, which we have always called "wedding cookies". The look beautiful in that gorgeous cup and saucer. I might make some today.
Yeah, all the cookies look great! I have this cookbook and I did not see the Amish cookie recipe. It is one that I will try for sure. I think if I had to choose a favorite from "looking" and not tasting (yet), the round powdered sugar cookies in the tea cup look delicious!
Thanks for sharing and for a chance to win!
Janan - you know how to reach me!
lOVE THE OATMEAL COOKIES WITH CHOCOLATE COVERED RAISINS! YUM!
LOVE ALL THE PICTURES ON THE BLOG
The cookies look so good!! My favorite is Oatmeal Raisin and I can't wait to make my next batch with the new twist of chocolate covered raisins!!! I always enjoy reading your blog!!
I want some cookies in the mail, oh, but wait, maybe I just run over and get some milk and cookies and visit!! My favorite cookies, I have two, oatmeal and sugar cookies. Can't wait to try the oatmeal cookies above!!!
ohhhh This book looks dreamy. Thanks for the recipe. I can never turn down a good chocolate chip cookie. So good. Thanks!!
It is SO hard to pick a favorite cookie! It is a toss up between chocolate chip and oatmeal cranberry walnut.
~ Blaire
I just love everything "Gooseberry"...those nut ball cookies are my mom's favorites!
the 1st cookie is one of my all time faves! yum.
great idea with the chocolate covered raisins
Hello Cora~I can honestly say...there's never been a cookie made that I've not enjoyed. They may be a confection small in size, but they're packed with a big "sweet surprise!"
Sweet wishes,
Sara
Cora... as usual.. love your post.. and wow what a tip about the bread and over baked cookies..that is awesome..
and now I want to defer from that great post for just a second,, (even though I want to be considered for the free book)
your photography. I love it,,as you know,, I have said it many of time..as a lover of picture taking myself,, but with no formal training and still not understanding the features of my camera.. can you please email me and let me know..... how do you get that soft , pastelly color to your photos..is it a camera setting or an editing features..
please let me know.. this question has been bugging me for months..
please email me at
momsnewbeginning@aol.com
thank you cora..have a blessed day..
I love mexican wedding cakes! The gems sound similar!
I love any cookie, but homemade Peanut Butter cookies are the best and they are so simple to make.
Hope you have a Blessed day :-)
Crystal
crystalshook@charter.net
Can't wait to try the cookie cookbook!
I love Gooseberry Patch. My favorite cookie has to be the dirty snowballs. My name is Leah Dodson and I hope I win. My email address is magdalenasuzette@yahoo.com.
Thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks so much for your review of Gooseberry Patch's Best Ever Cookies cookbook...I really want to try the Nut Cookies...I have a similar recipe called "Russian Tea Cookies" that we always make at Christmas, so it'll be interesting to see how they compare. It would be so cool to win this cookbook too...I love Gooseberry Patch and have a bookshelf dedicated to my collection! My email address is:
bassoff@juno.com
Thanks so much...your blog is great! :)
Best regards,
Debbie Bassoff
sounds just so yummy- love your music- pam pamsfamily2006@yahoo.com
My favorite home-made cookies are the no bakes my dad makes me (the only thing he cooks) or the pumpkin spice cookies, make from a box of cake mix and home canned pumpkin!!!
charitydahn@hotmail.com
Charity Deffenbaugh
I would love the cookie recipes. Any cookie that's homemade is a favorite just because it's homemade!! :)
They all sound so yummy
shaw151940@yahoo.com
My Favorite and my husband's are oatmeal raisin cookies
Russian Tea Cakes are my most favorite homemade cookie. If I don't give them away, I will eat every single one.
forgot my email last post walker.staycee@gmail.com
I love Oatmeal Raisin cookies the best. I can't wait to try them with the chocolate covered raisins! I'd never thought of that.
I also love Goose Patch Cookbooks!
Doris Raum dr69339@yahoo.com
Love this cookie blog! I'd never thought about chocolate covered raisins before in my Oatmeal Raisin Cookies, but will be trying them for sure. It's hard to choose one favorite cookie, because they've always been my favorite thing to bake, but I think I'd have to say an old fashioned Ginger Snap cookie is one of my all time favorites...first made them when I was ten years old!
Debbie
DebCham12@aol.com
Can't beat any cookie that combines peanut butter and chocolate! This cookbook sounds awesome and I would LOVE to win one!
Kris
kristines30@hotmail.com
I love your blog, I just found it today, I am a Gooseberry Patch fan on facebook. My favorite cookie is going to be the chocolate covered raisin oatmeal cookies...what an excellent idea:) I would love to enter to win the cookbook, flossie88@msn.com and I am going to try to follow your blog, if I can figure it out. Thanks so much for sharing all of these recipes!!
Thanks for the Great blog! My favorite to eat is Vanilla Wafers, but favorite to bake is Jelly Bean Cookies-they make my husband and kids so happy, lol.
Looking forward to the cookbook!
Courtney Barna to_court@yahoo.com
My favorite cookie is white chocolate chip with dried cherries. Great giveaway. Love your blog too.
I like all cookies -- but snickerdoodles are a favorite.
Kathi, kathleennoland@yahoo.com
Hello there! I have so many favorite cookies, but my favorite to make at home and eat are Italian rainbow cookies aka 7-layer venetian cookies. I also love chocolate-hazelnut cookies!
Thanks for the book review-I love Gooesebery Patch cookbooks and my email is danielle.battaglia@gmail.com
Thanks for the great Blog.. I am new to the site, but look forward to following you .. I would also like to enter to win your cookbook.. cwmartucci@yahoo.com and my favorite cookie is the flying pecan
I love peanut butter cookies the best!
Love the Nut Gems! Would love this cookbook!
Valerie
Pennagal@aol.com
They all sound delish - yummy!
Amy
amyallen77@comcast.net
Love your cookbooks and love your blog!! My favorite cookies are snickerdoodles or the Nutgems you gave but we always called snowballs. Love those!!
I love no-bake cookies the best. They are super simple and so yummy!
Melissa Qualls mjqualls@sbcglobal.net
I love cookies and baking cookies so much that it's really hard to pick a favorite, but I think mine are my mom's Oatmeal Raisin. Soooo yummy! And I love Gooseberry Patch cookbooks. I haven't found one yet that I don't like!
I LOVE Gooseberry Cookbooks and would be thrilled to win!!
christinaburrell at hotmail dot com
Nothing says "h0me" like Gooseberry!! Thanks for the chance to win this cookbook. Take care!! Betty Marzo burgndeeve2005@aol.com
Those cookies look yummy!!!! :) My favorite homemade cookie is chocolate chip cookies. They never last more than a day or two around here and then I have to make them again. ;) Thanks for the chance to win the cookbook. Linda Dubbelman lcdubbelman@telus.net
I abosolutely love anything with white chocolate mmmmmmm.
trumpet26@hotmail.com
What an adorable little blog you have. I will have to look around it more. I'd love to win the cookie book!
Waves howdy dooo to another Bama Beauty! Sending some Birmingham ((((((honey huggles)))))) Lovely blog & post ya got here 8) I love any ole kinda cookie as long as I got something to nibble on whilst I read homespuny blogger stuff! I'm glad I found yours...
angeldove7dt@gmail.com
My favorite homemade cookie is one that my grandma used to bake-a chocolate cookie with homemade white frosting--YUMM!!!
Please enter me into this drawing..all amazing cookies but my favorite of course have to be chocolate chip cookies..
Blessings...
xoxo Gert
My favorite has been a chocolate cookie with oreo pieces in it - i swear, everytime i make it, it brings me back to the cafeteria in college (which for me is a VERY good thing!)
My very favorite cookie is a chewy chocolate chocolate chip cookie I've been making for years. Happens to be my daughter's favorite, too. :)
Oh you're FUNNY! Like there's only one fav?! There's the candied jalapeno cookies a friend made the other year (I haven't tried to make them yet), PB, chewy chocolate, snickerdoodles... and the list just goes on.
I love homemade cookies snickerdoddles are 1 of my favs
My daughters and I have a cookie baking day every year in December, baking and making plates for friends and family gifts. Favorite homemade cookie is Raspberry Thumbprints.
My favorite cookie recipe is from my Grandma's old Kitchen Klatter cookbook. They're called "Dorothy's Christmas Cookies." We make them several times a year and frost them with a basic frosting. Delicious!
I just love to make cookies . . . any kind suits me just fine, but my kids request choco chip, sugar with sugar sprinkles or Monster cookies the most. Would love to have new recipes . . . .
Kyla
olsonkyla@rocketmail.com
Peanut Butter and snickerdoddles are my fav
Re doing peanut butter and snickerdoodles
kity47@hotmail.com Kathy Murray
My favorite homemade cookies are chocolate chip...yum.
fdcj82@yahoo.com
Would love to get this book!! I like the Nut Gems. My favorite cookies to make are White Chocolate Dipped Cherry Shortbread cookies and Chocolate Chunk Cherry cookies.
kmgervais@nycap.rr.com
I love anything cookie. I love Gooseberry patch. Simple ideas we grew up with.
Making cookies is probably the one of the best memories I have with my Mom. She always made sure cookie jar was never empty. I've kept that tradition. My kids didn't even know what store bought cookies were until started going over to friends houses.
Would love to add this book to my cookbook collection.
Favorite cookie:Peanut Butter made with chunky peanut butter.
imzadi_ok@yahoo.com
Love cranberry white chocolate oatmeal, almost healthy enough to eat for breakfast!
hillsboropaines@gmail.com
Oatmeal chocolate chips are my fav...perfect with a cup of tea. Thanks for this chance, can never have too many cookbooks, love Gooseberry Patch!
LOVE, LOVE, LOVE just baked warm chocolate chip cookies!!! The best ever!!!
I would love to win this cookbook!
My favorite cookie is a new one I have been making. It's S'Mores chocolate chip cookies. They are so yummy!
kohl1997@sbcglobal.net
I am new to Gooseberry and have none of their cookbooks. This one looks amazing and I would love it so I'd be able to bake some of these goodies up with my grandchildren! The nut gems sound & look fantastic. The g'kids & I will have a blast rolling these out :) Thank you for this opportunity to enter your contest.
Diane Spencer
Quesnel, British Columbia
di.spencer@shaw.ca
Oh my how I love each and every one of your cookbooks that I can get my hands on..Love gooseberry patch..your so talented and such yummy cookies..nut gems .can you say .mmmmmmmmmmmmmm....thank you for a wonderful opportunity to enter....and I absolutely LOVE your choice(s) of songs...xoxox
Cookie
Just found you by way of Gooseberry Patch on Facebook--love the picture of the tea cup with cookies!! Those would be the first we would bake.
Thanks for the opportunity to enter. I know I'll be back to your site to visit.
Jane
guileys@bellsouth.net
yum! love gooseberry patch, love cookies - sounds like a perfect match. (i don't think i have a favorite cookie, i love them all!)
Hope this is my lucky day...I have several Gooseberry cookbook, just not this one. Hope I received an email telling me I won
My favorite would have to be chocolate chip cookies. Lots of good memories growing up with mom's homemade chocolate chip cookies...
Bandba@aol.com
You picked some great cookies to review! I can't wait to get started baking.
I have to say...your photography is excellent! You definitely captured the yumminess of the cookies!!
Great review! My favorite homemade cookies are Oatmeal Raisin...and the idea for using chocolate-covered raisins sounds excellent! Would love to win this book!
Wendy
wendy@technology-jobs.com
I'm a big fan of snickerdoodles though the amish cookies you listed sound great as well!!
anaturalprocess "at" gmail "dot" com
I would love to win this cookbook. My favorite cookies are gumdrop cookies. Donna
drburfield@comcast.net
Love the review of Gooseberry Patch's new cookbook, thanks for sharing! My favorite cookie is White Chocolate Macadamia Nut. Thanks again for sharing!~Crystal Willich caseyandcrystal@yahoo.com
Love the review of Gooseberry Patch's new cookbook, thanks for sharing! My favorite cookie is White Chocolate Macadamia Nut. Thanks again for sharing!~Crystal Willich caseyandcrystal@yahoo.com
Oh dear, I hope I'm not too LATE!! By the way, I LOVE your blog! Cute graphics!
I actually blogged about my favorite cookie last week. It's the most famous Chocolate Chip Cookie! How could no one not LOVE them!!
Actually, here's the link to it:
http://thesimplegirlblog.blogspot.com/2011/03/simple-girls-favorite-cookie-recipe.html
Thanks to everyone that commented! Good luck to all of you! The comments are now closed for the drawing....please bear with me, we are having some really bad weather at the moment, I may have to take cover!! Thanks again for your interest and thanks to my new followers!
Blessings to all............
Chocolate Chip cookies are my favorite. I hope I am not too late to be entered.
johnsoditus@verizon.net
Chocolate Chip cookies are my favorite. I hope I am not too late to be entered.
johnsoditus@verizon.net
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