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another great cozy mystery!

Today I'm featuring a recipe from

BAKED TO DEATH

Book 2 in the Cookies & Chance Mysteries

by

Catherine Bruns

From #1 bestselling culinary cozy mystery author Catherine Bruns comes the next delightfully delicious Cookies & Chance Mystery... 

Baker turned reluctant amateur sleuth, Sally Muccio’s, finally found the happiness that’s eluded her for years. She’s in love with a great guy, her bakery is thriving, and now she and her best friend Josie Sullivan are gearing up to appear on the popular reality baking show, Cookie Crusades. But a visit from Sal’s greedy ex-husband Colin, who's looking to cash in on the bakery’s dough, changes everything. Within a few hours Sal’s world—like the shop’s original fortune cookies—is broken apart when Colin turns up dead, and her boyfriend’s arrested for the crime. Now Sal’s mixing it up with vengeful ex-inlaws, a suspicious new employee, slippery baking competitors, and a greasy mobster who’ll stop at nothing to collect on Colin’s unpaid debt. Can Sal prove her man is innocent in time? Or is she about to get baked herself? 
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On to the recipe!

CHOCOLATE BISCOTTI

Ingredients

2/3 cup sugar

1/3 cup butter, softened 

2 eggs 

1¾ cups all-purpose flour

2 teaspoons baking powder 

¼ teaspoon baking soda 

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

1/3 cup unsweetened cocoa powder 

¼ cup chopped walnuts, if desired 

½ cup mini chocolate chips 

Directions 

Preheat over to 375° Fahrenheit

Cream sugar, baking powder, and butter in large mixing bowl until light and fluffy.

Add eggs and vanilla, and beat well. 

Beat in cocoa and flour. 

Stir in chocolate chips and nuts. 

Divide and shape dough into (2) 9x2x1-inch loaves. 

Place loaves about 4 inches apart on a parchment-lined cookie sheet. 

Bake for about 25 minutes, remove from oven, and then let cool. 

Cut loaves into slices (diagonal) about ½-inch thick. 

Flip the slices on their sides on the cookie sheet. 

Bake at 325° Fahrenheit until brown. 

Turn slices over, and bake the other side in the same manner. 

Be sure to keep an eye on the chocolate while it's baking. 

Transfer cookies to wire racks, and cool completely. 

Makes between two and three dozen, depending on the thickness. 

Texture should be on the soft side. 

MY REVIEW

BAKED TO DEATH is a sweet way to go…if you’re looking for a great mystery!

In this tasty installment of the Cookies & Chance mysteries, BFFs, business partners, and bakers, Sally Muccio and Josie Sullivan find themselves in the world of reality competition TV on the show, Cookie Crusades. This story also finds Sally involved in a murder that hits too close to home.

Author Catherine Bruns is an exceptional writer who knows how to keep the readers’ attention. BAKED TO DEATH was an enjoyable story from the fun beginning, through the tension packed storyline, all the way to the satisfying end.

I’m very much looking forward to a third book in this fun series!

Check out the amazing cookie recipes at the back of the book! You’ll also find an excerpt of KILLER TRANSACTION, book one in the Cindy York Mysteries, also by Catherine Bruns.

NOTE: BAKED TO DEATH is a wonderful story, but it does include some mild language. Just a little more than typically found in a cozy mystery. 

Please keep reading and check out my 

installments of 

Book Beginnings on Fridays

and

The Friday 56

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My Book Beginnings and Friday 56

 for this week are also from 

BAKED TO DEATH

Book Beginnings on Fridays is a meme hosted by Rose City Reader

Share the first sentence (or so) of the book you are reading

My Book Beginnings...

The compressed sand burned my bare feet as I ran toward the crystal clear blue water with brilliant sunlight cascading down upon it. I dog-paddled in, just enough so that the water came up to my shoulders when I stood and let myself sink into the delicious coolness around me. Ah, this is living. Only one thing was missing.  

The Friday 56 is a meme hosted by Freda's Voice

Rules: *Grab a book, any book. *Turn to page 56 or 56% in your eReader (If you have to improvise, that's okay.) *Find any sentence, (or few, just don't spoil it) that grab you. *Post it.

My Friday 56...

"Rest in peace," I whispered. "I will find out who did this to you."

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