It's

Cozy Food Friday!

That means it's time to share a recipe from 

another great cozy mystery!

This week's recipe is from

APPLES AND ALIBIS

by Gayle Leeson

That's the last time Amy agrees to do a favor for a stranger...

Down South Cafe owner, Amy Flowers is in over her head. Operating a cafe while hosting the first Farmers' Market in Winter Garden has her swimming in apples. And when an elderly woman calls the cafe, pleading for a delivery for her upcoming party, Amy relents, feeling compelled to help the desperate customer. But when she arrives, the woman is slumped over her kitchen table, and Amy is catapulted into the middle of a small town crime. Guilt-ridden for not arriving earlier to save the woman, she sets out to unravel the mystery surrounding the woman. Now, between running the cafe and dealing with the chaos of the farmers' market, Amy is squeezing in a murder investigation, a run-in with her boyfriend's mom, and her own mother's quirky life decisions. Life can't get any worse...or can it? This cafe owner needs a break--in the case.

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DIET COLA BROWNIES

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Ingredients

12 oz can of Diet Cola

1 bow of brownie mix (Galye used Betty Crocker Low-Fat Fudge Brownie Mix)

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Instructions

   Empty brownie mix into a large bowl. Add 12 oz. diet cola. Using a handheld mixer or whisk, combine until batter is free of lumps. 

   Pour mixture into a 9 x 9 pan treated with nonstick cooking spray.

   Bake according to brownie mix instructions, adding an additional 5 to 10 minutes baking time.

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Does it get much easier than that?

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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

APPLE AND ALIBIS

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

Dilly Boyd stuck her head inside the door of the DOWN SOUTH CAFÉ and called, "Big Harry Ostermann needs a bandage! He got a splinter from his apple crate!"

My 56

"Someone needs to tell us what's going on here," Mom said.

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