CHAPTER TWO

COOKIES & BISCUITS

This chapter is rather long — but believe it or not, we actually had to cut it back! There are so many delicious cookies and biscuits to choose from, we felt we could almost write a whole recipe book on them alone, so here is the abridged version of the Bourke Street Bakery favourites over the years.

Cookies and biscuits are everyone’s favourites, and while they may seem like a simpler thing for a novice baker to tackle, you still have to behave a little like a quasi-scientist when making them. When you put that flattened ball of raw dough into a hot oven, you are setting off a series of chemical reactions, and every tweak you make will engineer your cookie or biscuit to be softer, chewier or more brittle — so do make sure you are exacting with your process.