I Want to Eat Cookies will help you get all your favorite classics—many with tasty new twists—from pantry to plate in no time. Whether it's cookies to pack into lunchboxes and gift tins, cookies for a bake sale or dinner party, holiday celebration or birthday party cookies, or cookies just because you have a craving, your next sweet treat is just a few ingredients away.

I Want to Eat Cookies includes chapters on Scooped and Dropped Cookies, with Crispy Chocolate Chip Cookies, Snickerdoodles, Sesame Tahini Cookies, and Salted Cashew Crisps; Chilled and Sliced Cookies including Palmiers, Chocolate Wafers, and Lemony Sugar Cookie Slices; Filled and Stuffed Cookies, featuring Brandy Snaps, Almond Macaroons with Jam, and Chocolate Heart Thumbprints; Glazed, Iced, Drizzled, and Dusted Cookies, with Mocha Meringue Hearts, Vanilla Nut Crescents and Pretzel Cookies, and finally a Crushed, Stacked, and Soaked chapter, to make the most of leftover cookies (if there is such a thing) with Peppermint-Bark Ice Cream Sandwiches and Boozy Cookie Balls. Readers and eaters will discover helpful tips and tricks as well as basic techniques as they peruse the pages.

Gift the cookie monster in your life this easy-to-use handbook, or start a Cookie Book Club with friends and bake your way through (you don’t need to wait for holidays to have a swap!). Whatever the reason or the season, there’s never a wrong time to bake and to eat cookies!

Ellen Morrissey is a freelance writer, editor, and project manager. She was the Editorial Director of Books and Special Projects at Martha Stewart Living for 16 years, and has also edited books for Gourmet magazine and HarperCollins. Among her recent book projects are Kristina Cho's Mooncakes and Milkbread and Chinese Enough, Andrea Gentl's Cooking with Mushrooms, and Gabrielle Langholtz's United Tastes of America.