let the insanity begin with all kinds of fruit cookies -
chocolate white chocolate raspberry, wild blueberry lemon white chocolate, banana mango coconut, banana walnut. And they're all available for the next two months either as individual flavors or as part of our August/September Specialty Dozen:

3 Chocolate White Chocolate Raspberry
3 Wild Blueberry Lemon White Chocolate
2 Banana Mango Coconut
1 Banana Walnut
and of course, 3 Chocolate Chip

The price, $42.95/dozen

What: DeLuscious Cookies & Milk
Where: Los Angeles, CA
Price: $38.95 for the Basic Dozen
Justification: The cupcake reign collapses as cookies rise to the top.

Kiki Taylor's Take
Once the block long lines grew old, conscious consumers questioned the $3 and $4 cupcake. Yet years later, it seems the cupcake won as the wallet slims and the hips widen. Another perceived loser in Battle Cupcake? The cookie. What happened to the simple pleasure found in gulping a glass of cold milk while devouring a warm chocolate chip cookie? And I am not talking about microwaved Chips Ahoy.
 

It's hot and Summer is here with a vengence in LA, getting even for that mild June. I don't know about you, but my cravings for fruit go through the roof when it's hot. Which lead me to conclude that it's time to bring back our fruit-filled cookies: banana mango coconut, chocolate white chocolate raspberry, wild blueberry lemon white chocolate and banana walnut.

For those of you who have not heard of LA's BEST, it's an amazing afterschool program which targets the most in-need elementary schools in the LA Unified School District.

Friday, we had the pleasure of baking cookies that were to be decorated by 160 children at Fair Avenue Elementary. Their smiling faces covered in blue, green and pink frostiing was enough to light up anyone's day!

check out lasbest@lacity.org

For those of you who have not heard of LA's BEST, it's an amazing afterschool program which targets the most in-need elementary schools in the LA Unified School District.

Friday, we had the pleasure of baking cookies that were to be decorated by 160 children at Fair Avenue Elementary. Their smiling faces covered in blue, green and pink frostiing was enough to light up anyone's day!

check out lasbest@lacity.org

Ok DeLuscious fans,

We have to remind you Season 5 premiere for Entourage is this Sunday, July 12th!! Don't forget to watch it - live, TIVO or On Demand, your call.

We are huge fans and completely in awe of Doug Ellin's talent to write and create real characters. Don't forget, he shoots in LA, real LA cafes, apartment buildings, open spaces.

Riddle me this, because i just don't get the whole red velvet obsession. Yes, I have brought our couture red velvet 'n cream cookies back for the month of July, but only because people keep asking for them.

I know those of you who love red velvet will say it has an amazing taste, but I bake. I know what's in red velvet and any way you slice it, the ingredients found in any red velvet cookie or cake cannot be stupendous, earth-shattering or phenomenal. They can be moist or dry, have a faint of obvious cocoa flavor, but amazing?!

I think I'm going to have a heart attack - 6 months till Christmas and 3 months till Yom Kippur, which translates into no more coffee until January 2010....a very sad fact, but a joyful one for my staff. I'm pretty insane on caffeine.

So, this month, it's all about red, white and blue. And, because everyone is obsessed with red velvet, we're bringing back our red velvet 'n cream with a blue marzipan star on top.

It's time to wipe off the dust from my June 2007 gluten-free chocolate chip cookie dough recipe and try it again because the National Academy of Sports Medicine has asked me to create a gluten-free cookie. We'll see if ours passes their taste test.

You're probably wondering why DeLuscious is dedicating a blog to a cemetery. In order to understand, you must visit this oasis in the heart of Hollywood; its lake and gardens transport you temporarily to another place in time. (The entrance is on Santa Monica Blvd, just east of Gower). Thank you Tyler Cassity for spending millions to refurbish Hollywood Forever (formerly, Hollywood Memorial Park).