Chocolate Comfort Cookies are part of the novel, The Grilling Season, by Diane Mott Davidson. Let’s see . . . the cookies have hazelnuts, plenty of chocolate, cream cheese, marshmallow creme, and dried cranberries; all those flavors come through. Yum! These are big cookies; great for bake sales, holiday time, anytime. I enjoy Diane Mott Davidson’s mystery novels that use the theme of food. Several recipes are included in each book, and each novel title is a play on a food or drink word. Diane studied political science at Wellesley College, and lived across the hall from Hillary Clinton. In a few of her novels (particularly The Cereal Murders), she references a prestigious eastern women’s college that her sleuth, Goldy Schulz, attended before transferring to Colorado State University. In real life, Diane transferred from Wellesley, and graduated from Stanford University with the double major of Art History and Political Science. Several years later she received a MA in Art His