May 17, 2012

Simple Sweetheart Cookie recipe!

Hi, Readers! 

There’s a fun and simple cookie recipe to bake when you’re  Looking for a tasty treat…..

Simple Sweetheart Cookies:

Ingredients

3/4 cup butter (no substitutes), softened
1/2 cup sugar
1 egg yolk
1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
2 tablespoons raspberry or strawberry preserves
confectioners’ sugar

Directions
1.In a mixing bowl, cream butter and sugar. Add egg yolk; mix well. Stir in the flour by hand. On a lightly floured surface, gently knead dough for 2-3 minutes or until thoroughly combined.
2.Roll into 1-in. balls. Place 2 in. apart on greased baking sheets. Using the end of a wooden spoon handle, make an indention in the center of each. Fill each with 1/4 teaspoon preserves. Bake at 350 degrees F for 13-15 minutes or until edges are lightly browned. Remove to wire racks. Dust warm cookies with confectioners’ sugar if desired. Cool.

I hope you have fun making these yummy treats and be sure to pick up your copy of Jackie’s Red Mustang today!

A Need for speed

I must admit it.  I’m a sucker for fast cars plus smooth chrome and steel.  The sound a new turbo charged engine makes me quiver at the knees.  That super charged feeling of excitement that I get hearing a fast car lead me to create my latest Whispers release.

Being an AmericaN, we’ve long been connected in an intimate way to our cars.  I remember as a female kid boasting with the boys about what car I’d get to  drive one day.  The machine topping the list was forever a mustang.  Every time, I’d see one cruising by on the street; I’d pant like an in love school girl.  Only the object of my attention and affection contained hard metal and plush leather seats.  Although, life’s seasons changed and a little girl grew up to marry her handsome prince, a fascination with  automobiles remained.

It was during my last visit to the Brighton speed trials that the idea for my latest release as Marina Cross, Jackie’s Red mustang was born.   This story of a Las Vegas city planner carried away on a night of high charged passion to push the limits of what she’d ever done before formed while listening plus watching automobiles of every shape and model tear along tarmac as they attempted to beat the speed trial  leader’s personal best.

Jackie’s story should resonate with people of all shapes and sizes that find their lives are carried away by form coupled with a function that overshadows some of the fun of just living.  I hope readers will find a reason to cheer, laugh and even feel a bit of excitement as Jackie takes on her lover in a sexy chase she secretly wants to lose to win.