Are you ready for a box of chocolate cookie mix for a $15.95? Because the mix was made by the chocolatier Vosges, Bacchus Wine & Spirits owner Brian Caplan figured people would be interested. “We do very well with Vosges chocolate,” Caplan said. “When we saw they had a chocolate chip cookie mix, we thought we couldn’t lose.

I decided to get a box of the The Ultimate Chocolate Chip Cookie Mix by Vosges for the family to try. We had to add butter, eggs, a couple of teaspoons of cream and vanilla. The chocolate chips — 62 percent cacao dark chocolate — were so large that we put them in at the end with the mixer on high speed to break them up a little. The chocolate is very good. We were eating it out of the box. The mixing method calls for adding melted butter after creating the dough, refrigerating it, scooping balls of dough and refrigerating again before baking.

The mix made 19 big cookies. It would have made only 12 cookies if we made them as large as Vosges suggested. If we had made them even smaller, it would have yielded three dozen cookies. Experienced cooks can cook with blocks of high-end Callebaut chocolate ($9.99 per pound) and get similar results for a lesser price. But for the inexperienced cook, the boxed cookie mix might make you a hero at your next dinner party. The novelty would certainly spark conversation.