This heavenly collection of dessert recipes—gifted to us from the greatest bakers and chefs from small-town café owners to fancy restaurateurs to TV show hosts—is a call to arms, to action, to revolution! Or, at the very least, a call to turn on the oven. Because who has time for the third-best brownie recipe or so-so Nutella-stuffed chocolate chip cookies?
Written with a fun and friendly tone and featuring easy, step-by-step instructions, 50 Things to Bake Before You Die will make you feel right at home as you bake up these world-class desserts, including:

• Brown Butter Nutella Stuffed Chocolate Chip Cookies (from Chelsey White)
• Strawberry Champagne Cupcakes (from Georgetown Cupcake)
• Brown Sugar Peach Cobbler (from Tieghan Gerard)
• Chocolate Cheesecake Mochi Muffins (from Sam Butarbutar)
• Chocolate Babka (from Duff Goldman)
• Cookies and Cream Macarons (from Cambrea Gordon)
• And more!

So bake up Courtney Rich’s sublime Ultimate S’mores Cake, and Joanne Chang’s soul-shaking Homemade Oreos. Bake them—before you die.