title: The Daily Cookie: 365 Tempting Treats for the Sweetest Year of Your Life
author:  Anna Ginsberg 
description: Anna Ginsberg is a self-taught home cook and grand-prize winner of the 41st Pillsbury Bake-Off Contest and numerous other local and national cooking contests. She has appeared on the <i>Today</i> show and has cooked onstage with Oprah Winfrey. She details her cookie-baking adventures in her Cookie Madness blog, cookiemadness.net. You can also find Anna on Twitter @Cookie_Madness.
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  I’m less than a week away from being crowned King.
  
  
  To celebrate my last days of freedom, I’m indulging in all kinds of hedonistic
  activities—including attending the coveted Virgin Auction.
  
  
  When I see Izzy on stage, I forget where I am. She’s gorgeous. I must have
  her. At any cost.
  
  
  Even if only for three weeks.
  
  
  Even if it can only ever be temporary.
  
  
  And especially because it’s the last time I can do something for myself and
  not what’s best for my country.
  
  
  I’m bound by duty and honor, but for the next few weeks I get to have my
  American cake and eat her too…one decadent bite at a time.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Table of Contents
  
  
  
  
  
  [Chapter One](part0004.html#_idParaDest-1)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Chapter Two](part0005.html#_idParaDest-2)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Chapter Three](part0006.html#_idParaDest-3)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Chapter Four](part0007.html#_idParaDest-4)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Chapter Five](