You can be a world-class cookie baker, making perfect-every-time cookies that everyone loves. It's not a crazy idea at all, with Crazy for Cookies, Brownies, and Bars as your guide.

Author Dorothy Kern is one of the most trusted and widely read baking bloggers on Earth--and with good reason. Her tested-to-perfection recipes are easy to make, scrumptiously delicious, and full of creative new flavor ideas. In these pages, she serves up more than 85 recipes, each with its own color photo.

Dorothy shows you how to make cookies in batches big or small and offers expert tips on how to store them so they stay fresh for a long time. What's more, she guides you in taking your cookie skills in new directions, into the delectable world of brownies (lots of different kinds of brownies!), blondies, shortbreads, shortcakes, cookie cakes, and more. Her book includes cookies that range from traditional favorites to all-new concepts:

• Seriously the Best Chocolate Chip Cookies
• Trail Mix Oatmeal Cookies
• Raspberry Almond Spirals
• Nana's Drop Sugar Cookies
• Orange Dream Cookies
• Chocolate Peanut Butter Potato Chip Cookies

Beyond the cookies, you'll love the recipes for:

• Brown Butter Pecan Blondies
• Apple Shortbread Bars
• Caramel Crunch Bars
• Bacon and Caramel Brownies
• Vanilla Lovers' White Chocolate Brownies
• Fruit Tart Cookie Cups
• Birthday Cookie Cake

...among tons of other delicious crowd-pleasers. Your family and friends will be thrilled with the results--and so will you.

It's the definitive book on cookies--and so much fun to use!