Shortcut baking can be easy and sophisticated — for novices, experts, and everyone in between! More than 800 quick and delicious recipes from the winner of The Food Network's Ultimate Recipe Showdown—including the $25,000 winning recipe! Beginning with a box of cake mix, brownie mix, refrigerated cookie dough—or opting for an equally easy no-bake cookie—is not only easier than pie, but also leads to sweet success time and time again. Home bakers have always taken advantage of newly available shortcuts, whether in the form of pre-shelled and chopped nuts, shredded coconut, measured sticks of butter, or the uniform bits of chocolate we know so well as "chips." Making quick, easy, and delicious desserts using store-bought mixes and other shortcuts is not about abandoning traditional cookie and dessert recipes, but about celebrating a host of new options. Each recipe in this collection has been streamlined for easy, everyday baking—if you can wield a wooden spoon, you have all the skills necessary to start turning out any of these mouth-watering treats. Go from Humble Beginnings to Scrumptious Endings With These Clever Shortcuts: A roll of refrigerated chocolate chip cookie dough becomes Decadent Chocolate-Dipped Toffee Chippers Start with applesauce and a package of devil's food cake mix to make Devil's Food Whoopies with Cocoa Fluff Filling With quick-cooking oats, a few minutes, and no oven, you can make German Chocolate Cookies Start with fresh pears and a package of vanilla cake mix to make Fresh Pear Cookies with Browned Butter Icing A package of spice cake mix becomes Chai Spice Cookies With miniature candy bars and a roll of refrigerated sugar cookie dough, you can make Candy Bar Cookie Pops Using a package of brownie mix you can wow your guests with Bananas Foster Chocolate Upside Down Cake And over 800 others…including the Food Network's Ultimate Recipe Showdown $25,000-winning cookie recipe!

Creator of The Food Network's Ultimate Recipe Showdown best cookie recipe pulls together more than 800 of her scrumptious recipes that all start with a roll of refrigerated cookie dough, box of cake mix, brownie mix, or ready-to-eat cereal.

Transform your pantry staples into fast, easy, and delectable desserts! The age-old delight of homemade cookies just got easier. With The Ultimate Cake Mix Cookie Book, you'll find that the secret to some of the tastiest, and most irresistible desserts imaginable is a convenient box of cake mix. With a few extra ingredients, turns of a spoon, and whirs of a mixer, you'll have spectacular homemade cookies without the hassle. This mouthwatering collection features more than 375 drop, filled, and bar cookie options prefect for busy bakers. From all-American classics to European bakery temptations, these recipes include: Chocolate Chip Cookies Oatmeal Cookies Triple-chocolate gooey bars Strawberry-cheesecake thumbprint cookies And many more! The Ultimate Cake Mix Cookie Book is a wealth of delicious, shortcut dessert options for parents, novice bakers, and anyone else with a sweet tooth who's short on time. Praise for The Ultimate Cake Mix Cookie Book: "If you love cookies, this book is for you. If you like short-cut recipes, this book is for you. If you're searching for a particular cookie recipe, bet you'll find it here. It's true—this is the ultimate cookie book!"—Reader Review

The ultimate collection of recipes to make real food, real fast -- with hundreds of ways to cook smarter, not harder. The Kitchen Shortcut Bible is for all of us who love to cook, but never seem to have enough time. Rather than a book of way-too-clever hacks, this is a collection of more than 200 ingenious recipes that supercharge your time in the kitchen without sacrificing high quality or fresh flavor. Bruce Weinstein and Mark Scarbrough come to this, their definitive guide to shortcut cooking, after twenty-nine cookbooks and decades of experience in the kitchen. Not only do they know about putting great meals on the table, they also know that most people's nightly question isn't "what's for dinner," but "what's for dinner in the next half hour?" They've got risotto in minutes, no-fry chicken parm, and melted ice cream pound cake. But these recipes aren't merely "semi-homemade." They've also got slow cooker confits, no-boil stuffed cabbage, and a fine holiday turkey straight out of the freezer, as well as new ways to think about sheet pan suppers, Asian noodle dishes without a wok, and no-churn ice creams. And no MacGuyver-ing either! There are lots of new ways to use the kitchen tools you already own, imparting concrete shortcuts that save time and make something good into something great. When dinner is a problem to be solved, this is your cheat sheet.

More than 130 recipes for irresistible cookies, quick-to-fix bars, crowd-pleasing cakes and more, that all start with a simple box of cake mix

Cake Mix Cookies will enable you to whip up mountains of delicious cookies using a secret ingredient: cake mix. You'll find more than 70 recipes for creative cookies and decadent bars in this handy cookbook. Cake mixes cut prep time and make it easy to create perfect Peanut Blossoms, gooey Chocolate Hazlenut Cookies, and tangy Coconut Key Lime Bars in no time at all. You'll be shocked by the simplicity of the recipes in Cake Mix Cookies. Chapters include "Old-Fashioned Favorites," "Chocolate Creations," "Fun and Fruity," "Just for Kids," and "Holiday Flavors." Your guests will never guess that cake mix was the secret ingredient for these and other luscious sweets: • Peanut Butter Cheesecake Bars • Toasted Coconut Cream Cheese Pinwheels • Chocolate and Oat Toffee Bars • Orange Chai Spice Sandwich Cookies • Jingle Bells Ice Cream Sandwiches Cake Mix Cookies is spiral-bound, So it will rest conveniently flat while you cook. There are also beautiful color pictures of almost every treat in the book.

Superstar blogger Dorothy Kern’s Crazy for Cookies, Brownies, and Bars serves up 85 scrumptiously new and wonderfully creative recipes—each with its own photo.