A mildly interesting set of recipes. I have been known to bake instead of doing something I should be doing - but usually I just want to make something yummy and get on with it, rather than deliberately choosing something complicated to take extra time. The author keeps recommending that...or recommending using store-bought ingredients (canned biscuits, for example) to speed things up. The style is cute, including the little icons for faster, slower, down the rabbit hole... There are several (many) recipes I want to try at least once, and some may enter my repertoire. I'm less interested in the ones designed to take extra time...but Gardner does have a recipe for toffee cookies, including making the toffee, which is something I've been looking for for a long time. Glad I read it, now I have to go back to all my bookmarks and try the recipes. ( )