Murder in the Mix Boxed Set 28-30: Cozy Mystery Addison Moore (the reading strategies book .txt) 📖

stir in butter, vanilla extract, and ground nutmeg. Let cool, then chill in the refrigerator until trifle is ready to assemble.

Gingerbread Cookies Ingredients

3 cups flour

¾ cup butter softened

¾ cup firmly packed dark brown sugar

½ cup molasses

1 egg

2 teaspoons ground ginger

1 teaspoon ground cinnamon

¼ teaspoon ground nutmeg

1 teaspoon baking soda

1 ½ teaspoon vanilla extract

*Holiday Fast Pass = You can purchase small to medium-size gingerbread cookies to adorn your trifle with.

In a large mixing bowl, blend flour, ginger, cinnamon, baking soda, nutmeg, and salt.

In another large bowl (or a mixer), cream butter and brown sugar with electric mixer until light and fluffy. Add molasses, egg, and vanilla to the creamy mixture and beat together well. Slowly add in flour mixture on low speed until well combined.

Roll or press dough out into a thick flat circle. Wrap in plastic wrap then refrigerate 4 hours or overnight.

Directions for Gingerbread Cookies:

Preheat oven to 350°.

*Use a medium-size cookie cutter (about 5 inches) to adorn the trifle with these tasty cookies later.

Dust a flat work surface with flour. Roll out dough ¼ of an inch. Cut as many gingerbread shapes as you can with the dough, reusing and rolling out scraps as needed. Set on a greased cookie sheet about an inch apart.

Bake 8 minutes or until golden brown and set aside to cool.

*Whipped cream Ingredients

1 pint heavy cream

2 tablespoons confectioners’ sugar

1 tablespoon water

1 teaspoon unflavored gelatin

*Holiday Fast Pass = 1 small tub of Cool Whip whipped topping found in the frozen section of the grocery store. This is a saving grace any time of the year!

Directions for whipped cream topping:

In a large bowl, mix heavy cream and confectioners’ sugar. Whip until soft peaks form.

Dissolve gelatin in water over low heat (microwave will work for about ten seconds until well dissolved). Let cool then mix into whipped topping until stiff peaks appear.

Assembly of the trifle:

A glass footed dessert bowl is highly recommended for this one. The presentation is spectacular.

This is a layered process and moves along quickly!

Break apart the gingerbread cake with your hands into one and two inches pieces, creating a layer of gingerbread cake over the bottom of the trifle bowl.

Next add a generous layer of eggnog custard. Add another layer of gingerbread cake and another layer of eggnog custard.

At this point, I like to spike a row of gingerbread men all around the inside periphery of the footed bowl so that they face outward.

Add the final layer of gingerbread cake and eggnog custard, or repeat the process until you’ve reached the top of the bowl.

Finally to top it off, add a generous layer of whipped cream and either lay a circle of gingerbread men over the top, or add a cherry, or even red and green sprinkles. Feel free to get as creative as you like and have some fun with it!

Serve and enjoy!

Merry Christmas to one and all!

And happy holiday baking!

Acknowledgments

Big thanks to YOU the reader! I hope you had a wonderful time. I can’t thank you enough for spending time in Honey Hollow with me. I hope you enjoyed this bumpy ride with Lottie and all of her Honey Hollow peeps as much as I did. The MURDER IN THE MIX mysteries are super special to me, and I hope they are to you as well. If you’d like to be in the know on upcoming releases, please be sure to follow me at Bookbub and Amazon. Simply click the links on the next page. I am SUPER excited to share the next book with you! So much happens and so much changes. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for taking this wild roller coaster ride with me. I really do love you!

A very big thank you to Kaila Eileen Turingan-Ramos, and Jodie Tarleton for being awesome.

A special thank you to my sweet betas, Lisa Markson, Ashley Marie Daniels, and Margaret Lapointe for looking after the book with their amazing beautiful eyes. And a shout out to Lou Harper for designing the world’s most beautiful cover.

A mighty BIG thank you to Paige Maroney Smith for being so amazing.

And last, but never least, thank you to Him who sits on the throne. Worthy is the Lamb! Glory and honor and power are yours. I owe you everything.

Copyright © 2020 by Addison Moore

Edited by Paige Maroney Smith

Cover by Lou Harper, Cover Affairs

This novel is a work of fiction. Any resemblance to peoples either living or deceased is purely coincidental. Names, places, and characters are figments of the author’s imagination. The author holds all rights to this work. It is illegal to reproduce this novel without written expressed consent from the author herself.

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Book Description

My name is Lottie Lemon, and I see dead people. Okay, so I rarely see dead people. Mostly I see furry creatures of the dearly departed variety who have come back from the other side to warn me of their previous owner’s impending doom.

It's the dead of winter in Honey Hollow, and I’ve got jury duty. As if that wasn’t terrible enough, Carlotta is stirring up trouble with the mob again, and soon enough, a member of the family ends up biting the big one. And you will never guess which ghost comes back to help me solve the crime this time. Something like this has never happened before, and I’m hoping it will never happen again. It’s cold outside, and so is the heart of the killer.

Lottie Lemon has a brand new bakery to tend to, a budding