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Chocolate- and cookie-lovers need to own this book. Or, if you are a chocolate- or cookie-lover and you do not bake, you need to buy this for your spouse, roommate, parents, etc. This is Nestle’s compendium of “most-requested” cookie and cookie-bar recipes, and most of them are stunning: Toll House Chocolate Chip (of course), Oatmeal Scotchies, Chunky Chocolate Chip Peanut Butter Cookies, Milk Chocolate Florentines, Macadamia Nut White Chip Pumpkin Cookies, and my personal favorite, White Chip Orange Cookies!

If you’re looking for low-fat dessert alternatives, look somewhere else… these recipes are loaded with white sugar and butter, and will have you on a list for bypass surgery if you eat them too often. But for those special occasions when awesome cookies are called for, this book will take you where you want to go. (Ironically, the book offers a half-dozen “reduced fat” cookie recipes, although I haven’t tried any of them. Due to my white-chip-orange blindness, I can’t seem to get past page 46.)

The book is hardback, and is nicely laid out with clear text, easily followed recipes, handy baking tips, and large photographs.

Patronize these links, man:

• Amazon (hardback)