Holiday Savory Cookies for Grown-Ups

NEW YORK - Nov. 29, 2013 - PRLog -- Wherever you lift a cup or glass to the season, it's time to up the game of the  bite accompanying your drink. Nothing says holidays are for grown-ups, too,  in so clear a bell tone as a celebratory cocktail or dessert cookie.

Kelly Cooper, author of Cookies for Grown-Up which pairs each cookie with an adult drink, is reshaping the way we think about entertaining any time, but particularly at holiday office and friends parties.

If you're a Christmas tea (or coffee) type of gal or guy, Ms. Cooper suggests a plate of Holiday Delectable Cookies  easily concocted with caramelized pear and ginger and half a walnut.

If your holiday drinking tradition runs more to drinking brandy (as was Charles DIckens' custom), then accompany your toast with  a spice dried-plum Tradition cookie, updated for the adult palate. Santa's tastebuds included.

And what say you to greeting the New Year with champagne and a ricotta-filled Nouveau cookie  topped with either blackberry or cherry and ginger?

Of course, there's a possibility that you eschew both brandy and bubbly and seek only the answer to the  most urbane holiday question:  What cookie goes with a vodka martini?

"Infuse" is Kelly Cooper's answer. "Black olive, orange and fennel permeate these cookies to create a unique infusion of taste," she says. "This cookie is a great hors d'oeuvre or appetizer.  Its complexity makes it a bit of a show-off---no one will guess how easy it is to bake."

From both coasts, and points in between, foodies are cheering Kelly's first book, the handsome hardcover  Cookies for Grown-Ups (Red Rock Press).

Gramercy Tavern Pastry Chef Nancy Olson says, "Ms. Cooper's unique flavors beckon us to dive into her book and begin baking; each baking adventure is as rewarding as eating the little treasure at its end. "

Culinary critic Sylvia Carter, whom New Yorker writer Calvin Trillin calls the den mother of food writers, puts it this way, ""Kelly Cooper isn't the first baker to come up with savory cookies, but she might do it best."

In short, Cookies for Grown-Ups is the new entertaining guide of the season, indispensable for the holiday host and a great gift for the baker  on your  list.

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Recipes are available for up to two of the four cookies mentioned, along with high-rez cookie and book cover photos.  We can also offer Charles Dickens’ own Christmas Brandy Punch recipe---if used A Christmas Dinner by Charles Dickens (Red Rock Press) should be credited.  Just tell what you'd like.