Virginia had just thawed out from a record breaking December storm when we got hit with another one. My area had 14 inches of snow and we’re expecting more this weekend!
Another record breaking snow...14 inches!
Bella and Buddy love the snow. (He's already run ahead.)
It finally warmed up this past weekend so Buddy, Bella and I spent as much time as we could outside.
After the holiday season I have all kinds of “leftovers” from different baking projects. Bits of this and that which aren’t enough to repeat the original recipe but too much just to toss. So I mixed up what I had, hoping my cookies would turn out okay. What happened was a surprisingly good cookie.
Leftover Cookies
1 c butter (2 sticks)
½ cup sugar
1-1/4 cup brown sugar
1 egg
1 egg yolk
1 teaspoon rum extract
2-1/2 cups all purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
1 cup chocolate chips
½ cup of Craisens
1 cup coconut
½ cup butterscotch chips
Cream together butter and sugars. Add egg, egg yolk and rum extract. Shift into batter flour, baking soda and salt. Mix in chips, Craisens and coconut.
If you’ve got a different set of leftovers, say nuts, dark chocolate bits or raisins, mix up your own version of Leftover Cookies.
Icing
¼ cup butter
1 to 1-1/2 cups of confectionary sugar
1-2 tablespoons milk
Mix these ingredients and then drizzle over warm cookies.
A great cookie!
I had the chance yesterday to speak to several middle school classes about writing mysteries. Great fun! I plotted a mystery with each class and we ended up with three very different and wonderful stories. Some of our characters included Will Catchem, James Blade and Farrah Jones. Our mysteries featured a haunted camp, an amusement park that suddenly loses electricity and a sabotaged basketball team. 
Fourteen inches of snow fell in my corner of Virginia this past weekend. Local news reported that some areas received eighteen inches of snow and that this was the biggest snow storm to hit this area since 1917.
No sooner did I hang this on my tree that the flurries started.
Snow falls on my "Snowman."
The snow brought the trees tumbling down.
Buddy and Bella blazed trails all through the yard.
Stop by Lori’s Reading Corner (http://lorisreadingcorner.blogspot.com) today and check out my blog entry! This is a great site and well worth exploring.
I joined up with my friend Ann this past weekend to bake cookies with a group of kids from lower-income homes. While holiday tunes played, we rolled out, cut, iced and tossed sprinkles on Sugar, Moravian, and Gingerbread cookies. After our three-hour bake-a-thon the floors were covered with sprinkles, I was wearing a good bit of flour and platters were piled high with an array of glittering cookies that filled our little bakers with pride. The whole experience was great fun!
Christmas Cookies get decorated to the hilt!
Stop by http://www.romconinc.com where I’m blogging today. Leave a comment and you’ll be entered to win a copy of my latest release DYING SCREAM as well as a copy of DEAD RINGER and I’M WATCHING YOU.
Romconinc is a new conference scheduled to be held July 9-11, 2011 in Denver, Colorado. I’ve already signed up and can’t wait!
This past weekend I had the chance to visit bookstores in Richmond, Fredericksburg and Northern Virginia and sign stock of my latest romantic suspense DYING SCREAM. It was great fun meeting booksellers who reported that store traffic and sales were brisk. I ended my mini-tour with a signing in Boonsboro, Maryland at Turn the Page Bookstore. Also signing were Nora Roberts, J D Robb, Patricia Gaffney, Ruth Ryan Langan, Mary Blayney, Patricia McDaniel and Jonna Mendez.
I’m thrilled to say my latest release, DYING SCREAM, hits bookshelves today! DYING SCREAM is the third in my suspense series which began with I’M WATCHING YOU and DEAD RINGER.
DYING SCREAM arrives in book stores.
: I am reading Dead Ringer now and I read the book, Siver Bells
DYING SCREAM
Zebra
December 1, 2009
ISBN: 1-4201-0028-9
ISBN-13: 978-1-4201-0028-0
