Our December book club will look a little different! Join us on December 8th for a little pre-holiday cookie swap and get together. We will dive into two wonderful cookbooks - make a fun cookie recipe, bring the cookies and a tupperware, and leave with a box of assorted cookies! Making a recipe is definitely not a requirement, feel free to just join us for the party, to chat about the books, swap recipe stories, and celebrate our book clubs!
Both of these titles also make great gifts. Make a recipe, join us, and then gift the book to a friend!
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Holiday Book Club Gathering! - Tuesday, December 8th - 6:00 - 7:00 pm
Cookie Queen by Susan Spungen
80+ unique and inspiring cookie recipes from the “Babe Ruth of Cookies” (The New York Times) perfect for a simple cookie fix or an elaborate gift box assortment
Making cookies is both an art and a craft. With Cookie Queen, you have an exciting and invaluable resource whether for a single good cookie recipe or for embarking on a cookie box project, a holiday activity that in recent years has risen to the level of competitive sport. Want to bake but not sure which cookies would go well together? This book takes a modular approach, so whether you want to make three different cookies or thirteen, picking from the different sections will give your boxes and platters variety. No need to spend a lot of time planning to figure out what will taste good and look good together. This mix and match approach is baked into the concept, with gluten-free swaps to include everybody.
Susan Spungen is a cook, food stylist, recipe developer, and cookbook author. She was the founding food editor at Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia from its inception. She was the culinary consultant and food stylist on the feature films Julie & Julia, It’s Complicated, and Eat Pray Love. She is the author of Recipes: A Collection for the Modern Cook, What’s a Hostess to Do?, and Strawberries (a Short Stack Edition) and co-author of the bestselling Martha Stewart’s Hors d’Oeuvres Handbook. She lives in New York City and East Hampton, New York.
The Joy of Cookies: New Classics and Old Favorites to Share by Joanne Chang
Forbes Best Cookbooks Of Fall 2026
A warm, stunning, celebratory baking book of favorite cookies, classic and new, from James Beard award–winning baker and founder of the beloved Flour bakeries in Boston, Joanne Chang.
Joanne Chang says it all started with a chocolate chip cookie. Specifically, the Nestle Toll House chocolate chip cookie—the first she ever baked as a child with her mom: perfect, gooey, and warm. She baked cookies for her fellow Harvard students and study group and became known as the “cookie girl.” When she left her career as a management consultant to pursue her baking passion, she did it with a tray of cookies, jokingly declaring to her former colleagues that one day, these cookies will be famous! Now, the critically lauded baker, co-owner of the acclaimed Flour bakery, and beloved cookbook author is here to celebrate the joy of cookies that she’s shared all her life.
Joanne Chang is the founder of Flour Bakery, which has ten (and counting) locations in the greater Boston area; the author of five other cookbooks (Flour, Flour Too, Baking with Less Sugar, Myers+Chang at Home, and Pastry Love); and the recipient of the 2016 James Beard Award for Outstanding Baker.