It's

Cozy Food Friday

That means it's time to share a recipe from 

another great cozy mystery!

Today I'm featuring 

SPICED AND ICED 

Book 2 in the Callie's Kitchen Mysteries

by Jenny Kales

The holidays can be murder! Greek-American restaurateur Callie Costas finds herself on thin ice when a colleague is killed. Recipes included!

The season is bright when Calliope “Callie” Costas agrees to contribute her Greek snowball cookies to a December bridal shower at The English Country Inn in the scenic waterfront town of Crystal Bay, WI. But when Callie finds a colleague dead, she's sucked into another murder investigation -- all while juggling her growing business and staggering holiday workload. 

As she reluctantly agrees to help the Inn’s owner track the killer, Callie is soon up to her spiced Greek biscotti in difficulties. For one thing, the hotel staff is freezing her out as she tries to uncover information, helped by her feisty Grandma Viv and her sweet but nosy aunt who’s visiting from Greece. And then there’s her deepening relationship with the suave and mysterious Detective Sands, a British expat now living in Wisconsin, who seems to have a few secrets of his own.

The icing on the cake is a host of simultaneous family mayhem including her father's surprising fixation on a real estate agent and her ex’s plans to move back to Crystal Bay. As the Inn’s annual Christmas Tea approaches, things are heating up in Callie’s Kitchen, but she’s on thin ice! Will Christmas be a festive celebration this year – or will it be murder?

Turn to the end of the book for six delicious recipes, including Greek cookies and savories, plus traditional Midwestern holiday favorites!

On to the recipe!

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BLUEBERRY GREEK YOGURT SCONES

Courtesy of Karen Owen, creator of A Cup Of Tea and A Cozy Mystery blog.

This photo courtesy of Karen M. Owen

All other food photos with thanks to and courtesy of Google Images and it's contributors

Ingredients

2½ cups of all-purpose flour

1 tsp salt

4 tsp baking powder

¼ cup of white sugar

Zest of one medium sized orange

Juice of one medium sized orange

½ cup of cold butter or margarine

1 egg

½ a cup Greek yogurt

3 tsp pure vanilla extract

1 cup fresh or frozen blueberries (in Wisconsin, in the wintertime, it's easier to find frozen!)

Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F.

   In a large bowl, combine flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt. Zest orange and add it to your mixture. Squeeze the juice from your orange and set it aside.

   Cut up the butter and add it to the rest of the ingredients. Blend it in with a pastry cutter until the consistency of bread crumbs.

   In a separate bowl, beat eggs. Add your yogurt to eggs, then ass vanilla and orange juice. Fold the wet mixture into the dry mixture and gently combine. Add blueberries, folding them gently. 

   Use a spoon to drop the size scones you wish to enjoy (smaller for an afternoon tea or larger for a coffee shop sized scone) on parchment lined baking sheets. Bake until golden brown edges and tops appear.

   Depending on the size, makes a dozen or so scones.

What do you think?

Would this be a tummy pleaser in your home?

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Please keep reading and check out my 

installments of 

Book Beginnings on Fridays

and

The Friday 56

Both the BB and 56 are also from

SPICED AND ICED

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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

(Chapter One, paragraph two)

"Because they enjoy making everyone as stressed out as they are?

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%

Only her hands pulling cookie sheets out of the ovens remained---and they were covered in mitts.

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