Discover the delicious mystery that started it all! No one cooks up a delectable, suspense-filled mystery quite like Hannah Swensen, Joanne Fluke?s dessert-baking, red-haired heroine whose gingersnaps are as tart as her comebacks, and whose penchant for solving crimes?one delicious clue at a time?has made her a bestselling favorite. And it all began on these pages, with a bakery, a murder, and some suddenly scandalous chocolate-chip crunchies. Featuring...

Baking cookies teaches us many lessons about life and love. Includes a recipe for sugar cookies.

Cookie Monster bakes beautiful and tempting cookies in his bakery, but he has so many customers that he cannot even have a taste.

Christmas is Mr. Putter's favorite time of the year. He starts thinking about Christmas presents in July. It's easy to buy gifts for the postman, the grocer, and the librarian. But he has to think very hard about a gift for his neighbor, Mrs. Teaberry. Mrs. Teaberry likes strange things. She likes coconuts that look like monkey heads and tiny dresses that fit her teapots. She even likes fruitcake. That's it! He'll make her a good cake for Christmas,...

Roan Sullivan is the naswer to Jazzy Walker's prayers. The doting single dad is a whiz at campfire cooking, so who better to help her win this year's annual cookie challenge? With his help, Jazzy is sure she can finally take first prize right out of the grasping hands of Andi Browning, the gal who stole her fiance right from under her nose. A widower with a four-year-old daughter, Roan tells himself there are a million reasons not to help Jazzy. She's...

With the questionable help of his friends, Big Brown Rooster manages to bake a strawberry shortcake which would have pleased his great-grandmother, Little Red Hen.

Alice Ramirez has always loved baking. Her family owns Say It With Flour, the small bakery in town. And Ali's specialties are cake pops: delicious confections on a stick. But Ali's sweet life turns sour when a sleek coffee shop opens across the street, giving her bakery a run for its money. Worst of all, the owner's son, Dane McGuire, likes to bake too. He's the new kid in Ali's school ... and happens to be annoyingly cute. When Dane and Ali engage...

Told in multiple viewpoints, A Tangle of Knots is a magnificent puzzle. In a slightly magical world where everyone has a Talent, eleven-year-old Cady is an orphan with a phenomenal Talent for cake baking. But little does she know that fate has set her on a journey from the moment she was born. And her destiny leads her to a mysterious address that houses a lost luggage emporium, an old recipe, a family of children searching for their own Talents,...

"Leila Wayward is a little witch who excels at everything she does...and now she dreams of winning the Magnificent Witchy Cake-off...But even with the most bewitching of recipes, she realizes a terrible truth: she's a disaster in the kitchen. Luckily, Leila has three magical sisters who are happy to share their culinary secrets with her. What's more, Leila discovers that baking with them is fun"--