Favorite Recipes from LOVE, LAUGHTER and MERRILY EVER AFTER

Alannah’s Favorite Holiday Recipe

Pineapple Cookies

2 Cups sifted flour

1 teaspoon baking powder

Few grains salt

1 teaspoon baking soda

½ cup butter/margarine

1 cup light brown sugar

1 cup crushed pineapple

1 egg

1 teaspoon vanilla

Drain pineapple well, reserving liquid for icing. Sift flour, baking powder, and salt. Dissolve baking soda in pineapple. Mash butter until smooth, add sugar – blend well. Add egg and vanilla, mix well. Gradually add sifted ingredients – mixing after each addition. Blend in pineapple

Bake 6-8 minutes at 375

Icing:

2 Cups powdered sugar

3 Tablespoons pineapple juice

Mixed together powdered sugar and pineapple juice and glaze cookies.

Karen’s Favorite Holiday Recipe

Okay, I'm a total cheater. When I make sugar cookies with my kids, I use the Betty Crocker sugar cookie pouches. It's just so much easier! We can bust those cookies out in no time. But I do make homemade frosting and the secret I learned from my grandma to make the frosting taste extra delicious? Include a splash of coffee. Yes, coffee! Sadly, she doesn't make sugar cookies during the holidays anymore but I do. Trying to keep up the tradition!

Frosting recipe:

2 cups powdered sugar

1 stick salted butter

1-2 tablespoons of milk

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Splash of coffee

Stir until desired thickness/consistency. Taste test to make sure it's sweet enough to your liking! Then get to frosting all those cookies. ;)

Here's a link to a photo from a couple of years ago - me making all the cookies and various holiday goodies and the mess I leave behind (note the diet Coke in the photo, too funny): http://karenwritesromance.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/misc-010.jpg

  

Mari’s Favorite Holiday Recipe

Cream of Crab Soup

Ingredients

¾ cup butter

¾ cup flour

2 chicken bouillon cubes (crushed)

dash of white pepper

salt to taste

1 tablespoon Old Bay

1 quart whole white milk

1 quart half and half

1 pound back fin crabmeat

Directions

1. Remove cartilage from crabmeat.

2. In a Dutch oven, melt butter. Blend in flour, pepper, and Old Bay. Stir and simmer over low heat 2-3 minutes. 

3. Add milk, half and half, and bouillon. Simmer and stir constantly until bouillon is absorbed and the mixture thickens enough to coat a metal spoon. 

4. Salt to taste, then add crabmeat. Heat through; do NOT boil.

Note: You can simply double recipe for a bigger amount.

  

Book & Author Details:

Love, Laughter, and Merrily Ever Afters Collection
Publication date: November 25th 2014
Genres: Romance

Synopsis:

TEN fun, romantic holiday novellas by ten New York Times & USA Today bestselling authors

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IF I RETURN -- by USA Today bestselling author Sawyer Bennett
WILD IRISH CHRISTMAS -- by New York Times bestselling author Mari Carr
SEDUCING SANTA -- by New York Times bestselling author Janelle Denison (aka Erika Wilde)
DECKING DREW -- by New York Times bestselling author Violet Duke
FAIRIES & WISHES -- by USA Today bestselling author Karen Erickson (aka Monica Murphy)
TWELVE DATES OF CHRISTMAS -- by New York Times bestselling author Jessie Evans (aka J. Evans)
HOLIDAY SPIRIT -- by New York Times bestselling author Cathryn Fox
UNWRAPPED -- by New York Times bestselling author Melody Grace
A CHRISTMAS HEAT WAVE -- by New York Times bestselling author Alannah Lynne
HIS CHRISTMAS WISH -- by New York Times bestselling author Marquita Valentine

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