When Clark's mom makes brownies for school, Clark cannot stop himself from eating the delicious treat.

Mrs. Maggot, the dinner lady, provides disgusting dishes that nobody can finish so the children never get any desserts, so one day Hansel and Gretel sneak into the cupboard where the treats are stored--but they are caught, and have to come up with a way to avoid being put in the rubbish bin.

Illustrations and text follow a girl's journey to overcome her fear of the special dessert she loves so much: La Rosca de Reyes, a sweet bread with a baby Jesus figurine baked into it and eaten on Three Kings' Day.

"Look at what I can make. I can make an ice cream cake! One scoop, two scoops, ice cream goop. I think I made some ice cream soup!"--P. [4] of cover.

Third-grader Dessert's love of treats leads to a change in her large family's dinner routine, then an awful mistake, and later a true sacrifice after her teacher, Mrs. Howdy Doody, urges students to march to the beat of their own drums.

Examines different sweets and snacks.