Brand-new cookies and delicious new spins on the classics are here, with simple well-tested recipes and all the tips, techniques, and ideas that you need to please a crowd or satisfy the most sophisticated palate around.

Over the course of her baking career Greenspan has created more than 300 cookie recipes. To merit her approval, every cookie had to be so special that it begged to be made again and again. Here she includes dozens of choices for cookie swaps, shows you how to make cookies unlike any you've seen before and presents those that bring out the inner tinkerer in all of us. In other words, the recipes she loves to share with her family and friends.

The included 150 recipes are sure to lift your holiday spirits, with delicious classics like Gingerbread Cookies, as well as new favorites like Cardamom Cookies and other instant hits. With vegan and gluten-free recipes to choose from, you can be confident no one feels left out in the cold this Christmas season. From cookie swap champions to beginner bakers, this is the perfect gift for anyone looking to bring a hint of sweetness back to the holidays....

A happy cat lives a wonderful life in the back of a cookie store, where the bakers take loving care of him and he receives special visitors. Includes seven recipes for sweet treats.

Each in a series of animals denies taking the cookies, but the true thief turns up in a cave.

After a day of making and selling cookies, Mr. Baker gets to enjoy one himself. Includes cookie recipe.

After a lonely gingerbread bear creates some friends by mixing up a new batch of dough, he realizes that being a cookie has some major disadvantages.