Book excerpt: Dazzling and delectable cookies for every occasion and taste—from Perfect Chocolate Chip Cookies to Homemade Oreos and Matcha Shortbread Cookies. This comprehensive collection of over three dozen cookie recipes provides all the much-loved classics, along with tips and variations on how to make them unique. The recipes are simple enough to be understood by beginning bakers and share a timeless quality that will make them cherished by cooks of all levels. The recipes are the type home cooks will return to again and again. Whether you’re an avid baker or a novice, the experts at the Williams-Sonoma Test Kitchen have you covered. Inside this beautifully photographed volume, you’ll find recipes for all types of cookies, including drop cookies, holiday cookies, sandwich cookies, and bar cookies. Step-by-step photos and instructions illustrate how to roll out dough, cut cookie shapes, and decorate with panache. Drop Cookies: Chocolate Chip; Peanut Butter; Oatmeal Raisin; Cowboy; Coconut, Butterscotch, and Macadamia; Chocolate Crinkle. Holiday Cookies/Gift Giving Cookies: Sugar; Ginger-Molasses; Gingerbread People; Spritz; Snickerdoodle; Candy Cane; Peppermint Bark; Thumbprints; Meringues; Florentines; Almond Crescent. Sandwich Cookies: Chocolate Pretzel-Peanut Butter; Lemon Cream; Homemade Oreos Bars: Blondie; Toffee Triangles; Peanut Butter Rice Crispy Brownie Bars; 7-Layer Bar; S’mores Brownies; Orange Creamsicle.