This just in: Sweet Melissa’s Melissa Murphy is NOW a cookbook author. And the book is coming out in March. In fact, I should have a copy in my hands very soon.

Sweet Melissa is quite the superstar. Well, we’re excited because we’re continuously amazed by the quality of the desserts over at Seventh Avenue’s Sweet Melissa’s, which has become quite the local mom hang. And not just moms.

Everyone around here seems to like Sweet Melissa’s on Seventh Avenue between 2nd and 1st Streets.

Here’s the blurb from the publicist at Penguin Press. Nice publisher, Melissa:

We all have that a favorite sweet treat… a gooey sticky bun warm from the oven, a slice of fresh peach and raspberry pie, or the perfect, mouthwatering chewy chocolate chip cookie. Brooklyn local, Melissa Murphy of the beloved Sweet Melissa Pâtisseries, shares all her favorite treats in simple, tried-and-true technique recipes in The Sweet Melissa Baking Book (Available March 2008, ISBN 9780670018741, $27.00).
There are desserts for every day, such as Toasted Almond Lemon Bars, Double Dark Chocolate Cherry cookies, and delicious Chocolate Walnut Brownies. There are desserts you can have for breakfast, including Sweet Potato Bread with Cinnamon Orange Glaze, Raised Waffles with Warm Brown Sugar Bananas, and Caramel Apple Turnovers. Melissa offers decadent recipes that will impress and charming anecdotes from her childhood memories of picking apples for preserves and pies to her day-to-day experiences running a beloved bakery.