You know the phrase “let them eat cake”? Well here’s a new book from Elinor Klivens that believes it may as well be chocolate cake!

I know. I know. Chocolate. Perhaps the most over discussed topic in the pantry. But this cookbook is more than just another book with chocolate in the title (Amazon lists 11,381 results to the title query ‘chocolate’). Yikes that’s a lot of calories!

Because the truth is this book is not really a book about chocolate. It’s about chocolate as a final product, a very specific and delicious final product– Chocolate Cakes: 50 Great Cakes for Every Occasion (Chronicle Books). It's a book I think you'll enjoy.

The author has had success with this one subject concept before. Her previous books include The Essential Chocolate Chip Cookie Book, and the even more specific– Big Fat Cookies. She’s probably working on the book Crunchy Little Yellow Cookies as we speak.

So there probably is a hungry market ready to eat this book up. But it better be very hungry because 50 chocolate cakes is a lot of cakes– especially because, as the title suggests, they are all chocolate cakes.

Have you noticed I don't do desserts very often here at Sippity Sup?

I do cookies even less. I think this is only the 3rd time I have done cookies in nearly 500 posts.

"So what's up?" you ask? "How come you did desserts two days in a row Greg?"

Well the truth is I am fishing for compliments. That's right. I sure have noticed that dessert posts get the lions share of the love out there in blogland. I am sure none of you could possibly eat as many desserts as you oogle over. But that's probably the point, huh? There is no caloric penalty to virtual eating so you may as well pig out.

So I figure if you can't beat 'em you might as well join 'em!

I didn't stoop as low as tying my cookies up with a pretty ribbon. I mean I'll beg, I'll even make a fool out of myself. But ribbons are just not Sups! style. But maybe I oughta reconsider that too, huh?

Because I am starting to feel like old news. Or I guess a better term for a washed up foodie is stale bread. I am beginning to feel like stale bread.

So it's cookies today. Chocolate Marble Cookies. Because if desserts are a sure thing. Chocolate is a home run. There I am feeling fresher already!