Article: Whip Up Top-Secret Sweets in Your Kitchen

I love Mrs. Fields' chocolate-chip cookies, so when I thought I had the authentic recipe for those gooey delights, I was anxious to whip up a batch of the best cookies on earth.

Whoever put the recipe to paper claimed it came straight from Mrs. Fields' kitchen, so I figured it had to be great. But it didn't take long - 10 minutes in a 375-degree oven - to discover I'd been had. I was just one of many thousands of people who had been suckered into believing that a multimillion-dollar company had sold its most valuable secret formula.

The untrue story behind it was that a woman had called the Mrs. Fields Co. to get the recipe and was told it would cost her $2.50,

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