News from Chocolate Land

Two dozen hot cocoa cookies with chewy centers and toasted marshmallow tops. 1/2 cup cocoa, 350F, 11 minutes. The trick that stops spread.

Cake bars in one 9x13 pan: 16 servings, under an hour, easier than layer cake. Crumb texture rules and a 2:1 chocolate ganache topping.

Six Japanese cookie classics: matcha shortbread, hojicha snaps, sesame tuiles, melon pan, monaka, langue de chat. Plus a 70% dark dip.

A homemade 3 inch cookie runs 70 to 80 calories. A Starbucks or Panera cookie hits 360 to 390. The honest math by recipe, butter, and chip.