cover image Mrs. Fields I Love Chocolate! Cookbook: 100 Easy and Irresistible Recipes

Mrs. Fields I Love Chocolate! Cookbook: 100 Easy and Irresistible Recipes

Debbi Fields. Time Life Medical, $17.95 (120pp) ISBN 978-0-8094-7808-8

Fields, the well-known entrepreneur, follows up her highly succesful Mrs. Fields Cookie Book with another devoted entirely to chocolate. But it will come as no surprise that the new book opens with an extensive chapter about cookies. Fans will appreciate these. Her ``Mother Lode Brownies,'' for instance, are made up of a brownie layer, baked, spread with a caramel coating and topped with nuts, semisweet chocolate chips and milk chocolate chips. It's difficult to imagine anything more excessive, although the author makes a good attempt to do just that with double-fudge chip cake, chocolate turtle pie, and ``Triple Chocolate Suicide.'' This book is not for the faint of heart or for those looking to lose weight. But if you crave chocolate and feel somehow neglected or forbidden, Fields will offer manna without restriction. Photos. 500,000 first printing; $115,000 ad/promo; author tour; first serial to Family Circle. (Sept.)