This is a sweet little book, perfect for beginning readers, particularly little girls.  The title and book jacket illustration are somewhat misleading.  The cover shows a young girl spooning up an ice cream sundae–yum!  However, the sundae isn’t the dessert, she is–it’s her name.  Dessert is the eldest of four children, whose family owns a French-themed restaurant called ‘Fondue.’  As she starts third grade, she learns from her somewhat eccentric teacher to ‘walk to the beat of her own drummer.’  She uses this newfound knowledge to get her family to allow dessert, the treat, to be eaten first, rather than last, of the evening meal.  The story is fairly mundane, following Dessert around school and at home, having the typical issues that kids have.  Her biggest problem comes when she eats the entire dessert her mom had prepared in honor of her deceased grandmother.  The huge disappointment from her family causes Dessert to rethink her plans.  I was disappointed in the ending, because I thought Dessert would learn how to make and replace the eaten dessert herself.  Instead, she gets their restaurant’s bakery chef to make it for her.  Hummmm….not such a good learning moment.  Anyway, the recipe for the Double-Decker Chocolate Bars in on the back cover; I plan on making them to see if the book would be more believable as a cookbook.