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It may only be October, but I believe I’ve found the perfect stocking stuffer for the upcoming holiday season. The pocket sized cookbook A Field Guide to Cookies by Anita Chu promises to assist you in learning how to identify and bake virtually every cookie imaginable. She isn’t kidding either. The author offers up recipes in all the major cookie categories including drop, bar, molded, and rolled.
Each recipe is neatly outlined with a general description of the treat, the historical background, serving suggestions, helpful baking notes, and even storage tips. Best of all, located in the center of the book are color images of every recipe. This is especially helpful due to the number of recipes inside that I’ve never heard of before. Have you ever made a Financier? How about a Speculass or a Congo Bar? Sometimes I find it hard to break out of my chocolate chip cookie comfort zone, but I sincerely believe this cookbook will nudge any home cook out of the baking rut you may be experiencing.
The Chocolate Chip Amish Puff Cookies I chose to create from A Field Guide to Cookies had a unique name and familiar ingredients. As the book states, these cookies are quite similar to the more well known snickerdoodle. There were two variations of this recipe, one with chocolate, and one without. You aren’t supposed to roll the chocolate chip version in cinnamon and sugar, but I decided to take a little liberty and they came out fabulously. As soon as I set the plate down in my office they were gobbled up in record time.
So who wants cookies?! You’ll have until Wednesday, October 8th to enter to win your very own copy of A Field Guide to Cookies. All you have to do is leave a comment on this post (one comment per person please). A winner will be selected via the nifty random number generator on Wednesday, October 8th at noon and than I’ll promptly ship the book to your home. Good Luck!
Chocolate Chip Amish Puff Cookies
Originally Published In: A Field Guide to Cookies by Anita Chu
Yield: About 2 dozen cookies
1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon cream of tartar
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup softened unsalted butter
1/2 cup light brown sugar
1/4 cup sugar
1 egg
1 cup chocolate chips
1/4 cup sugar
4 teaspoons ground cinnamon (Note: I only used one teaspoon in this step)
Sift the flour, baking powder, baking soda, cream of tartar, and salt into a bowl and set aside.
In a stand mixer, cream butter and sugars on medium speed for several minutes until light and fluffy. Add the egg and mix until combined.
Add the flour mixture, and mix on low speed just until combined.
Cover dough and refrigerate for 30 minutes. Stir in the chocolate chips.
Combine cinnamon and sugar in a bowl.
Preheat the oven to 350ºF. Line several cookies sheets with parchment paper (Note: I use silpats).
Roll tablespoon-sized balls of dough in the cinnamon sugar and place on cookie sheets about 3 inches apart.
Bake for 8 to 10 minutes, rotating sheets halfway through, until golden brown. Cool cookie sheets on wire racks.
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Pick me Pick me Pick ME! Your blog is awesome! Thanks for sharing all the good recipes
I just recently found your blog and I love it! Great recipes!
Those look delish! I found your blog on StumbleUpon and thought I’d say hi!
Mmmmmm! I’m going to mark this recipe on delicious and hope this comment wins me the book, then I won’t have to use the online version to bake these cookies.
Yummy, those look so good. Who doesn’t love cookies???
these cookies are so cute! they look great! i’m gonna try them out this weekend!
Those look like little bites of love! Yum!
I make a point of trying at least one or two new cookie recipes each holiday season (besides the new recipes I try throughout the year), although it’s hard because my family members always want the same ones over and over again.
It is going to take everything in me to just GO TO BED right now instead of going into the kitchen to bake these cookies. I really want that book!! 🙂
There’s nothing I’d love more than a big ol’ book full of cookie recipes! Nice blog…btw.
MMM, yummy, who doesn’t love a good cookie! Love your blog.
Those cookies look great, your blog is great and that cookbook sounds, well, great 🙂
I love cookies. Have made your secret chocolate chip recipe many times since you posted it. They are GREAT! These look yummy too. I would love a new cookie cookbook. Marjie
I am definitely going to try these out and the book sounds perfect – so many new things to try!
Oh…I’ll have to make those…
Those cookies look wonderful.
those cookies are perfection. good ol’ amish. if i wasn’t addicted to tv and the internet and all that, i’d infiltrate. 🙂
i’m up for a new cookbook! i love baking cookies!
A cross between a snickerdoodle and a chocolate chip cookie? Two of my favs…sgin me up! I think i’ll try these this weekend.
Did you say cookies!? Those are so pretty!
Cookies please!
I love baking so this would be a great book to win!
Please pick me! I am a cookie making and eating machine and always on the lookout for new, unique ideas. Love your blog! (Does flattery push the nifty random number generator in my favor??)
Pick US! Pick US! We love cookies and even more we love making them!!!
Your cookie photo is great … making me want a big bowl for breakfast!
Oooooh C IS FOR COOKIE AND COOKIE IS FOR ME!
Every single cookie?!? Wow. Snickerdoodles are some of my favorites!!
I just did a cookbook inventory, and I have not one baking book. This sounds like hours of fun on a rainy weekend. I hope the random number generator brings me good fortune.
I would love this cookbook! I’ve been making cookies starting after Thanksgiving each year and giving them to firehouses, nursing homes and various other service oriented places that have touched our lives. This would be such a great asset to my library and tradition!
These look really tasty. Though my family would probably appreciate it if I made something besides chocolate chip cookies (my favorite).
I’m a huge fan of Anita’s, and plan on getting this cookbook anyway, but it would be even better to win it!! These cookies look sooo good!
An interesting idea – a field guide. I too am trying to break out of the gingersnap and sour cream sugar cookie rut that I go to again and again. I would love to win a copy of this! Love the blog!
this would inspire lots of baked goods to bring to the office!
Mmm tasty, I’d love to win the book and branch out with my cookie making! Count me in!
Anita is a sweet, kind, generous blogger and talented baker. I’m so excited about her book!
I love cookies. What a perfect gift. Great for taking on holidays when your staying somewhere that has a kitchenette.
I hardly every make the same cookie twice, as there are just so many cool recipes out there.
I am going to try this recipe! I really like your blog 🙂
dude.. you KNOW I’m in.
btw… those cookies look a little too good. Maybe making me want to find an Amish friend or something good.
xxoo
Those cookies look wonderful!
I can’t wait to get a copy! I’ll be trying this reicipe VERY soon!
I have a neighbor who is really sick, I was wondering what to make the family. This recipe looks like the one!
oh yes!!! I’d love this book!
I’ve always thought 41 should be a lucky number! 🙂 These cookies are so puffy, I love them.
I LOVE LOVE LOVE cookies! And this cookbook sounds fantastic! Please enter me in the contest to win it! Thanks!!!!
This cookie really sounds interesting I am going to have to try it. Thank you
This is making me hungry!
I want this book! who doesnt like cookies??
thanks 🙂
jessica
Okay, seriously. Chocolate chip and snickerdoodles in one cookie? Swoon! Cookies are definitely my forte and I would totally put this book to good use…Thanks!
What a fun book! And a generous give-away!
My daughter and her new husband went to Amish country and tasted the baked goods at their farmers market stands-she said his eyes rolled back in their sockets and he kidded her that maybe he had married too hastily..good thing this family has a sense of humor. I’ll send this recipe to her…thanks
One on the best things about retirement is baking. This cookbook sound fabulous!
wow! way to pull the lurkers out of our lurking.
wow, these sound delicious! i think i will try them out this weekend!
They look great! Anita is so talented…you’re right it would make a great stoking stuffer!
mmm…i’ve been trying to find the perfect chocolate chip cookies and these look scrumptious!
I LOVE your blog. I hope I win!
Hi, those cookies look so good! Your site is great 🙂
wow, so the book has finally be released? i’m always fascinated by the sweet treats that anita whips up. so are these cookies more of the soft and cakey type? anyway, thanks for the generous offer, erin! 😉
These cookie look so good, Pick me please!
I <3 cookies!
Those cookies look so yummy! I may have to try that recipe!
To quote:
“Me eat cookie! Om nom nom nom”
— The Cookie Monster
Whose real name is apparently… Sid. I didn’t know that, but look it up if you don’t believe me!
Those look great! Love your blog!
As much as I hate rolling dough, these look like they might be worth the effort.
I made these last night! So, so good!
Those cookies look yummy!!
Would love the cook book.
🙂
Sounds like a great book. Thanks for the mention and giveaway.
I know Anita’s book will be fabulous, I love her blog!
how does the cream of tartar affect the texture of these cookies?
Oh wow! Her book sounds so amazing!
This sounds like an excellent book! I love, love, love baking cookies especially this time of year. Thank you for the give away!
Those look so good! Now I want cookies…
Looks great! Trying this recipe this weekend.
Mmmm…. Puff cookies!
These look great! Hoping for the book!
I need this book! I’m a cookie fanatic and never have enough cookie recipes!
Wow! These look awesome! And it’s my first time to your blog. Can’t wait to do some exploring!
Those look divine. I’m getting hungry. I love chocolate with cinnamon – brilliant.
The cookies look delicious and I cannot wait to make some. I’ve just found your site. I’ll be spending the days scouring through all the previous posts so I can get caught up. 🙂
These look like puffy clouds of chocolate chip cookie!
Wow!
These look great!
lol these cookies are so petite! i’m going to try them today =) why are they called “amish” though?
I NEED to eat these!
Yummy! I know of someone who would love to find this in their Christmas stocking!
Hmm. These sound intriguing. I’m lacking in the chocolate chips, but still intriguing. I might have to check out this book.
Can’t wait to try these for the next school club bake sale. Please enter me in the contest!
Got Milk?? The cookies look yummy! Thanks for the post!
I love chocolate chip cookies with a puff in them. These look great! Sometimes choc chip cookies are so flat. I hate that!
I’ve never seen these before but they look scrumptious. I’m a cinnamon fiend though so I’d use it all!
Mmm…me want COOKIES!
Those looks so cute and delicious!!
I love all chocolate chip cookies in all their incarnations. These look fantastic. I will have to make them this holiday season.
ohhhh. YUM enter me in the mix 🙂
Yum, makes me think of Amish Friendship Bread (which I love!)
Omg those cookies look so good! I’d put all the cinnamon in–they’d be like chocolate chip snickerdoodles!!
The colder weather makes me want to bake cookies and eat them warm out of the oven so they’re still chewy with a cold glass of milk!
These look so amazing, I want to just reach through the screen and eat one!! Yum!
Are they really Amish??
I’m so glad I found these! I’m always searching for the perfect chocolate chip cookie recipe. This may be THE one. The chocolate and cinnamon sound like it could be the mouthwatering combination needed for that “can’t stop at just one” recipe I’m craving.
Wow…thanks for sharing! I found your blog through foodgawker, and it’s pretty awesome!
i wish my friends and family would put cookbooks in my stocking LOL 🙂
These are like little baby chocolate chip cookies – so adorable! Oooh that book sounds fab.
&%^&!!! Are you serious? Cookies are my joie de vivre. I so HAVE to win this.
I have been looking for a puffy chocolate chip cookie for so long! I think my search is over. Thank you!
those look delicious!!
I never heard of that cookbook before but it looks like a really good one to get. Great cookies. I’m having coffee, right now, so that would be really good with it.
I’m making these on Wednesday…
I found the picture of these cookies on TasteSpotting and connected to your terrific blog. I am left drooling and cannot wait to buy the missing ingredients to try them.
Those cookies look delicious! Can’t wait to try this recipe out.
OHMYGOD These are the most wonderful cookies.. I couldn’t help myself, I had to make these today. These are THE PERFECT chocolate chip cookie!
Thanks so much for sharing it 🙂
i tried these today and they were wonderful!! a new fave!
ooOOooo….choose me. i like cookies!
Oooh field guide to cookies! I could definitely use that!
COOL SOUNDING BOOK!
ENTER ME!
Just discovered your blog recently and love it! Hope it is OK to add you to my blogroll!
Those cookies look amazing and I would love to have a chance to win the book!
Count me in! 🙂
Pick me! I love cookies!
That’s a neat twist on chocolate chip cookies. I’ll have to try this recipe out!
With the holiday season around the corner, this would be great!
WOW. You’ve been discovered!
I’ve made the Speculass before. In fact, I’ve made them and hidden them in th freezer to keep to myself!
Wow, those cookies look great. I love it when they’re fluffy and not flat.
Sounds like a great book for any baker! And those cookies look like the perfect match for an afternoon cup of tea.
No, choose me! I love cookies 🙂
Sign me up. I’m a cookie baking fool! Haven’t seen this book yet though.
Shanna
Look delicious! Sign me up!
Have I mentioned how into baking I am becoming? I LOVE it. The baking, not the cooking. But, it’s a start! And Chris is more than a little thrilled.
I need this book! My cookbook collection does not include a cookie book, and that needs to be fixed ASAP.
Your picture alone made me click to your website, from my google reader. I didn’t even know about the contest. But now that I have read the post, why wouldn’t I want a chance to win the book that produce these lovely cookies. Thanks for the opportunity!
Pick me, I very much heart cookies.
Who doesn’t want a cookie cookbook? You can never have enough cookies.
This looks really amazing, do you know of any altitude adjustments that need to be made?
Yummy looking cookies!
I love your website. I’m always looking for new recipes to make with my daughters.
These look great!!
I had no idea how hungry I was until I just looked at those cookies. YUM! And the opportunity to get a new cookie cookbook? Count me in!
These look amazing! Will be trying them out tonight. Cinnamon sugar and chocolate always go together.
OMG!! i LOVE to bake and those cookies sound AMAZING!!!
I have to make these tomorrow! Yum.
These cookies look really good. Thanks!
I’m in! I could use some cookie help. I can cook anything, bake most things, but my cookies are just never quite what I’d like them to be. Sigh. I love cookies.
I’ve just discovered your blog. It’s going on my RSS immediately. 🙂
Those biscuits look gorgeous!
Oh I hope I win!
Sinful. Must have.
Thank you for making this available, and congrats on being freatured by Slashfood.com!
Those cookies look great. I’d love to win that cookbook.
COOOOKIES!
i can’t WAIT to make these cookies – the snickerdoodle chocolate chip combination sounds amazing!!
Gimme gimme! I want, I want, I want!
I love cookies. Please picke me!!!!
Squeeeee! OMG Those are so cute! I can’t wait till my kitchen is finished so I can try them out in Real Life!
Interesting cookies.
I hope I’m not too late to enter for the drawing of the book “Field Guide to Cookies”. I’d love to win – smile.
Thanks for sharing this recipe. Looks tasty! Claudia
What a tasty sounding recipe. I can’t wait to try them. It combines two family favorites. I’ll have to make them when the family is gone, so I actually get to eat a few before they disappear. Thanks!!
Yay, cookie cookbook! 🙂
Wow, I’m cutting it close today, but there’s a chance the randomness gods will smile upon me! These look fantastic…
My boys love cookies and I love cooking. Great combo, huh?
This reminds me of our family’s quintessential copy of the Betty Crocker Cooky Book, only updated for the 2000’s! Very awesome.
Love to bake for my boys and hubby 🙂 New recipes and books are always welcome, especially for cookies. Thanks for the opportunity.
Let’s see if winning is fated for me today.
cookies are the BEST!!
*tossing hat into contest ring*
These look absolutely amazing. Snickerdoodle and chocolate chip combined? Yes, please!
I would so LOVE to win this book! It will be a nice companion to my recently acquired cupcake cookbook!
I do like cookies 🙂
Wonderful recipes!
Oh, these look scrumptious! And they’d be just perfect on this gray, rainy mid-Western day.
Am I a winner?
Those puffs look ridiculously delicious. Can’t wait to make them.
not the thing to look at just before lunch… yum.
Going to make these tonight, already won
chocolate chip cookie bake off at office
with previous recipe on web.
I am a cookbook addict!! Would love it!!
Cookie cookbooks are awesome.
Great post. Love baking cookies.
Another thing to add to my baking bender.
I know I’m past the giveaway date, but I still wanted to say that those look positively grabbable! I also adore the little polka-dot bowl. 🙂
These were very straight forward and easy to make. Following the exact instructions, I didn’t have any problems. I used a convection oven and 8 minutes seemed to be the best time for the cookies to bake. I can easily say these are the best cookies I’ve made. Thanks!
Great recipe! These came out just as cute as your picture, and they’re mighty delicious.
I’ve just discovered your blog. Wow… I like your recipes!
Chocolate chip and cinnamon in one cookie…It’s a very good idea!!!
I tried the recipe. My cookies did not look as puffy as yours. Is it possible that my cookie dough was not cold enough ? However, these cookies are very good anyway.
Thank you for this good cookies recipe.
sorry i keep commenting so this will be my last. but i just have to comment on this particular recipe because its the best!! i use this cookie recipe every time i make chocolate chip cookies and they never fail. its a high flour content recipe so people need to remember to underbake otherwise the cookies will be hard rocks. i only bake them for 6 minutes at 350 and then stick them in the freezer immediately after. I also change things around. i dont use cinnamon and i use white chips instead of chocolate chips
I’m baking these literally right now as a birthday gift <3 I'm obsessed with all these recipes and I would lovee to have that book!! I'm hoping they turn out amazing (:
I was raised in Ohio Amish country (Holmes County) and had close Amish and Mennonite friends and family. I have never once see or heard of this recipe. Can you tell me where it came from?
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