1. Home
  2. News
  3. The best time for cookies is now.

The best time for cookies is now.

Posted by Anne M on Saturday, Dec 12, 2015

Need recipes for cookies? Need them now? Whether you need to make cookies to serve at holiday gatherings or to give as gifts, you can check out, download, and read cooking magazines on your computer, phone, or tablet from the Iowa City Public Library. You don’t have to come downtown. You don’t have to wait until the library is open. All magazines are available to you right now in your home. For more information on our digital magazines, check out icpl.org/zinio.

But to save you even more time, here’s what recipes you can find in the December issues:

betterhomes Better Homes and Gardens

Dorrie Greenspan developed a vanilla cookie dough recipe with four different twists that will specifically stand up to wrapping and shipping. Find her recipes for double-ginger crumb cookies, vanilla polka dot cookies, Christmas spice cookies, and white chocolate-poppy seed cookies.

bonappetit Bon Appetit

Bon Appetit has given some punch to classic cookie recipes. They’ve added green tea powder and freeze-dried raspberries to rainbow cookies, sesame seeds to the black and white cookie, and spiced brown butter to the Linzer. Nothing boring here. Also try the chocolate-nut rugelach and Danish salted-butter cookies.

countryliving Country Living

You’ll find recipes for red velvet snowballs, triple chocolate hazelnut cookies, white chocolate and peppermint blondies, biscuit and jam cookies, spiced shortbread, fruitcake cookies, sugar cookies; Making sweets as gifts? Packaging ideas included.

marthastewart Martha Stewart Living

Tired of the traditional chocolate fudge? Martha Stewart Living added a layer of white chocolate and peppermint.

Find these magazines and many more at icpl.org/zinio. Enjoy!

About the Author

Anne M's picture

Anne Mangano has worked for the Iowa City Public Library since 2007, serving as the Collection Services Coordinator since 2013. In this position, she oversees the Library’s collection, including the selection, cataloging, processing, repair, and removal of materials. She also plans and directs ICPL’s digital collections, including the Local...

Other Posts by Anne M

See more posts from Anne M

Anne M Recommends

  • Cloud cuckoo land : a novel

    by Anthony Doerr

    FICTION Doerr Anthony
    Literary Fiction, Fiction

    Constantinople, 1453: Anna lives in a convent where women toil all day embroidering the robes of priests. She learns the story of Aethon, who longs to be turned into a bird so that he can fly to the paradise of Cloud Cuckoo Land, a better world, and reads it to her sister as the walls of Constantinople are bombarded by armies of Saracens. Lakeport, Idaho, 2020: Seymour, an activist bent on saving the earth, sits in the public library with two homemade bombs in pressure cookers. Upstairs, eighty-five-year old Zeno, a former prisoner-of-war, and an amateur translator, rehearses five children in a play adaptation of Aethon's adventures. The future: On an interstellar ark called The Argos, Konstance, alone in a vault with access to all the information in the world, knows Aethon's story through her father, who has sequestered her to protect her. All are dreamers, misfits on the cusp of adulthood in a world the grown-ups have broken. -- adapted from publisher info

    amangano's picture

    If you read “All the Light We Cannot See,” Anthony Doerr’s 2014 novel about two young people living in war-torn Europe, you know it was phenomenal. This is the much-anticipated next novel. It was worth the wait. This novel spans places and time. It has an interweaving narrative from characters living during the collapse of the Byzantine Empire to 20th century Idaho to sometime in the non-distinct future. What anchors them and puts them together is a book and libraries. It is specifically about a lost book (lost multiple times in history), the aforementioned “Cloud Cuckoo Land” and found again by the characters and what this Greek comedy meant to each person. I can’t recommend it enough. -Anne M
See more recommendations

Recent News

Add new comment