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Creative Cookies for Fun and Profit

Cookies are classic bakery fare. From chocolate chip to walnut raisin, bakers can get creative with cookie flavors, shapes, and sizes. Every baker has a favorite cookie, and almost every guest is sure to smile when a patisserie platter includes an assortment of these sweet bakery treats.

Bake a Great Cookie

Baking basic cookies is a fairly simple process. It typically includes ingredients such as sugar, flour, butter, and eggs. From this basic foundation, bakers can add an assortment of special ingredients, such as nuts, chocolate chips, coconut, raisins, or candy.

Cookie Baking 101

Once you've picked a few bakery favorites, it's time to try baking them in your own home patisserie. If you are baking a cookie that uses fruit, nuts, coconut, or other natural ingredients, you'll want to make sure you bake with only the freshest selection. This will help ensure that you bake the best- tasting cookies.

Before you bake, get all your bakery goods lined up and measured out, especially if you're a beginning baker. This will help you concentrate on the great cookies you are about to bake, without stressing out about how much butter you need or whether you have enough eggs.

Cookie Career

Once you've made a few batches and improvised on some original cookie recipes, you'll know whether you've got what it takes to make a career out of delicious baked goodies.

Some bakers become famous for their special cookies and develop their own followings and even commercial opportunities. Baking classes at cooking schools can show you how to be the neighborhood sensation--or maybe the next Debbie Fields.