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C o o k i e s , B a r s ,

a n d B r o w n i e s

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on’t think this chapter is low made in bulk, baked, and stashed in the
priority just because it is posi- freezer for later parties, bake sales, and
tioned at the back of the book. lunch boxes. Other new favorites this

In fact, you could say I’ve saved go-around include the Fudge Snowtop
the best for last because making a bar and its cousin the Almond Chocolate
or cookie or brownie is so simple and Chip Fudge Snowtop. These most excel-
fast. You can squeeze it in between other lent cookies contain, of all
tasks, like roasting a chicken or ingre dients, a container
sorting laundry or finishing up of thawed whipped
the chapter on layer cakes! topping. My children

Of all the cookies in my first love to watch them puff
book, it was the chocolate cookies up like snowy hilltops as they
that I found myself making time and bake. They, too, freeze well.
time again. So, I wasn’t surprised to The bars, as well, are both comfort-
find myself looking forward to creating ing and decadent to eat. We are partial
the recipes for this chapter. Like, for to the Peanut Butter Chocolate Bars in
example, the Chocolate Chunk Walnut the first book, so I had to include them
Chewies and the Chocolate Cinnamon this time—in a variation using chunky
Chip Chewies, which have become peanut butter. They are so deliciously

favorites in our house. They can be rich! My new favorites include the