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No-Bake Cookies by Camilla V. Saulsbury

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Concept: 150+ no bake cookies and bars that can be made without turning on the oven (most require the stove or microwave). Recipes are broken down into following categories: Drop cookies, shaped cookies, cereal bars, cookie bars, and icebox bars. 

Author:Camilla Saulsbury is a freelance food writer, recipe developer and cooking instructor. Her culinary focus is translating food and flavor trends into fresh, innovative, and delicious recipes for the home kitchen.

Camilla has been involved in the world of food for almost 20 years, including catering specialty desserts in the San Francisco Bay Area, writing cookbooks and freelance food articles, and developing recipes for national food companies. Further, she has won several of the country's top cooking competitions, including the $100,000 National Chicken Cook-Off, the $50,000 Build a Better Burger Contest, the Food Network's $25,000 Ultimate Recipe Showdown (Cookies Episode), and Top Chef Desserts $5000 Viewer Challenge.

I didn't realize it until I looked the author up, but I have read (and liked) several of her cookbooks before this one. There are also several more of hers that I would like to look through. 

Food type: Dessert - cookies, bars, frozen (icebox) bars . Snacks - granola/energy type bars/cookies

Monologue score (1-10) (how entertaining, not the recipes): About a 3 

Difficulty level: Very easy to medium (difficulty comes in having to work quickly with ingredients before they cool/harden or in having to make two separate mixtures on the stove either at the same time or one right after the other). 

Approximate percentage of recipes I would be willing to try: 30% - I marked about 50 pages as I was reading (Even though it's only 1/3 of the total recipes, finding 50 recipes that I would be willing to try in one book is pretty good). 

Sample recipes I'm interested in trying:

  • Chocolate Chip Peanut Butter Cookies
  • Dark Chocolate Hazelnut Cookies
  • S'mores Clusters
  • Slim Mint Chocolate Wafers (Homemade Thin Mints)
  • Chewy Cinnamon Roll Bars
  • High Energy Dried Fruit Bars
  • Chewy Mexican Chocolate Bars
  • Dulce de Leche Truffle Bars
  • Gianduia Bars

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