It's

Cozy Food Friday!

That means it's time to share a recipe from 

another great cozy mystery!

This week I have picked

IN COLD CHOCOLATE

Book 3 in the Southern Chocolate Shop Mysteries

by Dorothy St. James

In Dorothy St. James’s third delectable Southern Chocolate Shop mystery, a new batch of chocolate and troubles of the heart cause a string of disasters for the Chocolate Box’s new owner, Charity Penn.

The vintage seaside town of Camellia Beach, South Carolina seems like the perfect place for romance with its quiet beach and its decadent chocolate shop that serves the world’s richest dark chocolates. The Chocolate Box’s owner, Charity Penn, falls even further under the island’s moonlit spell as she joins Althea Bays and the rest of the turtle watch team to witness a new generation of baby sea turtles hatch and make their way into the wide ocean.

Before the babies arrive, gunshots ring out in the night. Cassidy Jones, the local Casanova, is found dead in the sand with his lover Jody Dalton―the same woman who has vowed to destroy the Chocolate Box―holding the gun. It’s an obvious crime of passion, or so everyone believes. But when Jody’s young son pleads with Penn to bring his mother back to him, she can’t say no. She dives headfirst into a chocolate swirl of truth and lies, and must pick through an assortment of likely (and sometimes unsavory) suspects before it’s too late for Penn and for those she loves in Dorothy St. James’s third rich installment of the Southern Chocolate Shop mysteries, In Cold Chocolate.

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BERTIE'S CHEER-ME-UP 

CHOCOLATE CHIP PANCAKES

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Your finished dish will vary in appearance.

This editor has been told time and again that the secret ingredient in Bertie's light flavorful pancakes in love. Love may help them taste this good, but it takes a few other ingredients to make these the best pancakes in the South. Perfect for a Sunday morning brunch, you'll be back for seconds. ~ from, IN COLD CHOCOLATE

Ingredients

6 oz Greek yogurt 

1 egg

½ cup flour (gluten free flours will work with this recipe)

½ tsp baking soda

6 oz of fair trade 70% or mark dark chocolate, chopped

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Directions

   Combine yogurt and egg in mixing bowl. 

   In a separate bowl, combine flour and baking soda.

   Combine yogurt and egg mixture with the bowl with flour mixture. Stir in chocolate chips.

   Yes, the batter is thick. 

   Heat butter in a nonstick pan over medium heat. Spoon batter into pan.  Turn when it begins to bubble. 

   Cook until golden brown on both sides.

   Makes 4 large pancakes or 8 small.

   Serve with maple syrup, butter, and fresh fruit. 

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Yum! They would be great breakfast, lunch, or dinner!

Chocolate, baby sea turtles, and murder. Oh my!

In this third installment of the Southern Chocolate Shop Mysteries, author Dorothy St. James offers up another sweet tale of murder and mayhem.

There are two mysteries between the covers of IN COLD CHOCOLATE. Both were extremely well done. And with all that was going on in this story, author James made it very difficult to solve either one of them. She has a true talent for deception. That is, in her books of course!

This book was so much fun to read, even if it did have me craving chocolate the entire time I was reading it. The cast of great characters kept me thoroughly entertained with some laugh out loud moments. The mystery aspect was intriguing and held me engrossed all the way through to the exciting end.

Give IN COLD BLOOD a place on your bookshelves. It will have you excitedly awaiting the next title as much as I am.  

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Please keep reading to check out my 

installments of 

Book Beginnings on Fridays

and

The Friday 56

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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.

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 Book Beginnings

I love the taste of the ocean. After an early morning swim, the salty flavor lingers on my lips for hours. 

My 56

"What was she doing toting guns around in the first place?" I asked.

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