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Cozy Food Friday!

That means it's time to share a recipe from 

another great cozy mystery!

This week's recipe is from

DEATH BY CHOCOLATE MALTED MILKSHAKE

by Sarah Graves

The island fishing village of Eastport, Maine, has plenty of salty local character. It also has a sweet side, thanks to Jacobia “Jake” Tiptree, her best friend Ellie, and their waterfront bake shop, The Chocolate Moose. But when island life is disrupted by the occasional killer, Jake and Ellie put their chocolate treats aside to make sure justice is served. 
 
This summer, Eastport’s favorite lovebirds, kindergarten teacher Sharon Sweetwater and Coast Guard Captain Andy Devine, are getting married. The gala reception is sure to be the fête of the season, especially with a wedding-cake-sized whoopie pie courtesy of The Chocolate Moose. For Jake and Ellie, the custom-ordered confection will finally reel in some much-needed profits. But the celebratory air, and sweet smell of success, are ruined by foul murder.
 
When Sharon’s bitter ex-boyfriend Toby is poisoned with an arsenic-laced milkshake, Andy is jailed as the prime suspect and the wedding is cancelled, whoopie pie and all. Then Sharon makes a shocking confession—one that sounds like a fishy attempt to get Andy off the hook. Now both the bride and groom are behind bars. And with the fate of The Chocolate Moose at stake, it’s up to Jake and Ellie to catch a poisonous predator before someone else sips their last dessert.
 
Includes a Recipe!

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GINGER CHOCOLATE BISCOTTI

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INGREDIENTS

1 cup flour

1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder

1/2 teaspoon ground ginger

1/2 cup softened butter

2/3 cup sugar

1 egg

1/2 teaspoon vanilla

1/3 cup crystallized ginger, very finely chopped

1/2 cup semisweet chocolate chips

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DIRECTIONS

   Mix together the flour, baking powder, and ground ginger. In another, larger bowl, mix together the butter and sugar until creamy, mix in crystallized ginger, and beat in the egg and the vanilla. Then mix the dry ingredients into the moist ones and stir until well blended. Last, mix in the chocolate chips.

   Now take a large serving spoon and scoop all the batter up into it. Drop the batter from the spoon into your hand and use both hands to form a 12-inch-long log. Place the log onto the cookie sheet.

   Bake the log at 325 degrees for 25 minutes, remove from oven, cool for ten minutes, and then slice the log with a sharp knife into 12 slices, leaving the slices standing up, separate from one another on the cookie sheet. Return them to the oven for 5 minutes to dry them out a bit (or if you like them very crunchy, for up to 10 minutes). 

   This recipe makes a dozen.

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Your finish product will differ in appearance

Perfect treat with your favorite hot drink. Can't you just feel yourself warming up?

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Please keep reading to check out my 

installments of 

Book Beginnings on Fridays

and

The Friday 56

Both the BB and 56 are from

DEATH BY CHOCOLATE MALTED MILKSHAKE

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

Flailing his arms wildly, Eastport, Maine's local bad boy Toby Moran flew out the front door of the Rubber Ducky Bar & Grille as if shoved hard from behind.

My 56

. . . I'd have been scared, too. Except for the method, which still had to be nailed down, from the cops' point of view it all couldn't have been neater if it had come in an envelope marked: "Contents: One Murder Conviction."

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