Four easy Christmas candy recipes

Four easy Christmas candy recipes

I love Christmastime and all of the delicious Christmas treats. When I was growing up my mom spent several evenings making scads of treats to give away to friends and neighbors. Though I don’t live in such a close-knit neighborhood and many of my friends are too...
Hot Cocoa Recipe

Hot Cocoa Recipe

Testing recipes for my culinary mysteries can be half the fun of creating the books–and this hot cocoa recipe is no exception. This one came out of my fourth Sweet Bites Mystery book, Eggnog & Extortion. It definitely takes longer than opening up a packet of...

Delicious crock-pot recipe to make dinner easier

I don’t know about all of you, but I’m always struggling to balance my career, church responsibilities, community activities and my family and home. Some days eight o’clock rolls around and I realize we still haven’t eaten dinner. If...
Orange-Cardamom Cupcakes

Orange-Cardamom Cupcakes

If you know me at all, you know how much I love to bake, and cake and cupcakes in particular, so when I found this gourmet cupcake flavor as I looked through offerings as cupcake shops, I thought it was perfect for my book, and even more perfect to develop a version...