103 step-by-step recipes for crazy-good favorites If you love hand-held treats and desserts made to be shared, then look no further than Southern LivingÕs new CollectorÕs Edition Ð Best Cookies & Bars. Master all of your - favoritesÑand new twists on classic treatsÑwith step-by-step recipes for drop, filled, and rolled cookies, bars and brownies, frostings and fillings, even homemade candy. This mouthwatering guide features more than 100 sure-fire recipes with beautiful step-by-step photography, plus tips and tricks for achieving the best resultsÑall from the experts in the Southern Living Test Kitchen, the authority on Southern cooking. Delight family and friends with all-American classics including Outrageous Peanut Butter Cookies, Classic Chocolate Chip Cookies, Lemon Meltaways, and the best Brownies. Also included are Southern favorites such as Chocolate Dipped Pecan Cookies, Mississippi Praline Macaroons, Pecan Sandies, and of course Pecan and Lemon Bars. YouÕll impress everyone with the sophisticated and flavorful homemade goodies that youÕll create, all with the help of Southern Living.

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This new essential guide to entertaining is divided by occasion, offering a fresh lineup of menus and ideas from Oxford, Mississippi's go-to caterer for every celebratory scenario life serves up. In this update to the best-selling book of our mothers' and grandmothers' era, Elizabeth's tell-it-like-it-is voice provides a twist to the classic Southern advice that is a refresher for entertainers of any age or experience. Packed with delicious recipes from the original book like Smoked Salmon Canapes, Hot Cheese Squares, and Brandy Alexanders, the book also includes popular picks from the current pages of Southern Living as well as Elizabeth's treasured recipe box. The Southern Living Party Cookbook is an entertaining handbook loaded with lifestyle tips and hilarious Heiskell stories, along with lush photography to help you get the look from table setting to plated dish.

Features fifty recipes for Southern-style cookies, ranging from crispy peanut cookies and pecan pie bars to chewy praline-chocolate fudge bars and mint julep brownies, accompanied by anecdotes of Southern cookie lore, and baking tips.

The food experts at Southern Living put a lot of love into thisvalue-packed, softcover version of their first-ever cookbook of the South's favorite desserts. A must-have for any kitchen, Classic Southern Desserts is as much a look-book as it is a cookbook, with gorgeous, full-color photos accompanying every mouthwatering dish. Over 200 of the Southern Living Test Kitchens' highest-rated recipes for luscious cakes, pies, cupcakes, cookies, and much more, as submitted by generations of home cooks, were handpicked for this book-the kinds of old-fashioned recipes that everyone remembers from childhood, updated to fit today's trends and ingredients. From a chapter on Luscious Layers & Other Cakes all the way through Ice Cream & Frozen Desserts, there's something for every sweet tooth. Special banners throughout, such as "Sweets to Share," "Kids Love It," "Bake & Freeze," and more, offer unique recipe ideas. Updated classics like Four-Layer Coconut Cake, Million-Dollar Pound Cake, and Fresh Georgia Peach Pie, are just a taste of what will keep readers coming back for more. Plus, helpful advice from the Southern Living Test Kitchens Professionals is included, with tips on topics ranging from beating egg whites to perfecting crumb crusts to frosting a cake.

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! In this "sage, valuable volume" (Publishers Weekly), First Lady Barbara Bush shares the best of her adviceto family, staff, and close friends. First Lady Barbara Bush was famous for handing out advice. From friends and family to heads of state and Supreme Court justices, and certainly to her staff, her advice ranged from what to wear, what to say or not say, and how to live your life. She especially loved visiting with students of all ages, from kindergartners to college graduates. When she turned 80, she owned up to all her advice-giving and explained it this way: After all, in 80 years of living, I have survived 6 children, 17 grandchildren, 6 wars, a book by Kitty Kelly, two presidents, two governors, big Election Day wins and big Election Day losses, and 61 years of marriage to a husband who keeps jumping out of perfectly good airplanes. So, it's just possible that along the way I've learned a thing or two. At the end of the day, she taught all of us some valuable lessons. As First Lady, she made a point of cuddling a baby with AIDS and hugging a young man who was HIV positive and whose family had rejected him, showing us by example the importance of compassion and the myth of fear. As a mother, she made sure we all knew that your children must come first, and one of the most important things you can do is to read to them. As a friend and mentor, she showed that you had to be true to yourself, and even at the end of her life, she taught us how to die with grace. Full of Barbara Bush's trademark wit and thoughtfulness, Pearls of Wisdom is a poignant reflection on life, love, family, and the world by one of America's most iconic -- and beloved -- public figures.