It's

Cozy Food Friday!

That means it's time to share a recipe from 

another great cozy mystery!

Today's recipe comes from

MEET YOUR BAKER

Book 1 in the Bakeshop Mystery series

by Ellie Alexander

Welcome to Torte—a friendly, small-town family bake shop where the treats are so good that, sometimes, it’s criminal…

After graduating from culinary school, Juliet Capshaw returns to her quaint hometown of Ashland, Oregon, to heal a broken heart and help her mom at the family bakery. The Oregon Shakespeare Festival is bringing in lots of tourists looking for some crumpets to go with their heroic couplets. But when one of Torte’s customers turns up dead, there’s much ado about murder…

"Sure to satisfy both dedicated foodies and ardent mystery lovers alike."

--Jessie Crockett, author of Drizzled with Death

The victim is Nancy Hudson, the festival’s newest board member. A modern-day Lady Macbeth, Nancy has given more than a few actors and artists enough reasons to kill her…but still. The silver lining? Jules’s high school sweetheart, Thomas, is the investigator on the case. His flirtations are as delicious as ever, and Jules can’t help but want to have her cake and eat it too. But will she have her just desserts? Murder might be bad for business, but love is the sweetest treat of all…

"Alexander weaves a tasty tale of deceit, family ties, delicious pastries, and murder.” ―Edith Maxwell, author of A Tine to Live, A Tine to Die

On to the recipe!

BRAZILIAN CHEESE MUFFINS

Ingredients

1 egg

1/3 cup olive oil

2/3 cup heavy cream

1 1/2 cups tapioca flour 

1/2 cup grated farmer's cheese

1 teaspoon salt

Directions

Add flour first, followed by remaining ingredients, to a blender and blend on low speed until the mixture is thin and creamy. 

Preheat oven to 400 degrees and grease muffin tray. 

Fill muffin tins with batter and bake at 400 degrees for 20 minutes or until the muffins puff up. 

Jules likes to add a variety of fillings to these muffins. Try some of her favorite combinations by pressing into the center of the batter before baking: jalapeños, black olives and cheddar cheese, rosemary and garlic, and goat cheese and sundried tomatoes. 

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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

Keeping my Cozy Food Friday theme going... 

Book Beginnings this week is from

MEET YOUR BAKER by Ellie Alexander

Book 1 in the Bakeshop Mystery series

They say it takes a while to recover your land legs after years spent at sea. I sure hoped mine would come back soon. 

It has been twenty-seven hours and forty-two minutes (not that I was counting) since I had left the ship, my husband, and everything I'd known for the last ten years. 

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.

Continuing with the MEET YOUR BAKER theme

My Friday 56

"Jules, come on. You have to know that people are naturally drawn to you, and it's not just because you make a killer croissant."

Heat rose in my cheeks. 

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