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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 doughor opting for an equally  easy no-bake cookieis 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 bakingif 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-DippedToffee 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 othersincluding the Food Network’s  Ultimate Recipe Showdown  $25,000-winning cookie recipe!