I did make the brrrr-ownies and they were okay. A little sticky-chewy and hard to cut but fairly tasty. I am just surprised to hear of some much excitment over the book when I have been so underwhelmed. I wasn't even going to try another recipe but I had received the cookbook to review from the publishers and thought I owed it another try. ← And you were going to do a review on the basis of trying two recipes? ← Well, sure. Two recipes out of like 230 is a sufficient sample from which to make an overall judgement, right? ← For the event, I was supposed to publicly test and review only 2 recipes. I could of course make more, but I could only post 2. Since I was so disappointed, I was only going to make the 2 before the deadline and then try the rest at my leisure.25 other people are also trying and posting 2 recipes. You can check it out here. I do a lot of developing of original recipes so I prefer to concetrate on that, rather than endlessly cook from a book I didn't really enjoy. Also: do you think people who review cookbooks in newspapers have time to make dozens of recipes before they review the book? There is no reason to be snarky, I was instructed to make and review two recipes and I did. I didn't say it made me an expert, but that's what I had to do. I think making 2 recipes and being underwhelmed is fine. I picked 2 very different recipes and did not find them special. I also only reviewed the recipes I made, not the book as a whole, a distinction that perhaps you will appreciate.