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Delicious desserts for two

With recipes as good as these, make sure you leave room for dessert...
Mine-all-mine sweet and salty chocolate cookies
by Nigella Lawson

The lone-dweller, in need of the balm that only a freshly baked biscuit can provide, is faced with a most unsatisfactory choice: do without or make a batch big enough to keep a huge hungry household happy. I had to put that right, and I have created a cookie recipe that answers my every requirement: deeply chocolatey, sweet but not too sweet, and sprinkled with sea salt flakes.

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