Article: just desserts; Cookies are so good you don't need ice cream.(TASTE)

Byline: Al Sicherman; Staff Writer

These days almost every homey comfort food has an "updated" version at hip restaurants, and desserts are no exception. For an updated ice-cream sandwich, "Bake and Freeze Chocolate Desserts" author Elinor Klivans replaces the soggy thin cookies in the standard freezer-case version with these chocolate-chip cookies, in which the cookie itself is chocolate, too. There must be no cookie recipe that has as many versions as the chocolate-chip cookie pioneered in the 1930s before the chocolate chip was even invented. That most of the variations are pretty good only reinforces what a fine thing the original is.

This one, for example, is so ...

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