For Chocolate Lovers Only

Appears in

The Cookie Lover's Cookie Book

By Richard Sax

Published 1986

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Chunky White Chocolate-Macadamia Cookies

Heavenly Hash Break-Up

Coconut-Chip Blondies

Giant Peanut Butter Top Hats

Disappearing Double Chocolate Brownies

Impossibly Rich Chocolate Pudding Cups

Milk Chocolate-Toasted Almond Candy Bar Cookies

More Cookies for Chocolate Lovers

What is it about chocolate that makes people go unashamedly crazy the moment it appears? Scientists have tried to explain this phenomenon—it seems there’s a chemical substance in cocoa beans called phenylethylamine that, when released in your brain, causes the same chemical reaction as that which occurs when you’re in love.