#COOKING WITH CLORIS--GUEST AUTHOR ADELE DOWNS AND PEACH PIE

Because it’s peach season and picnic season and fresh fruit pie season, we’re featuring a recipe from author and former journalist Adele Downs for peach pie. This recipe appears in Bake, Love, Write: 105 Authors Share Dessert Recipes and Advice on Love and Writing. A portion of the profit from the sale of the book goes to NoKidHungry.org. Learn more about Adele and her books at her website.  

Retro Homemade Peach Pie

Use ripe organic peaches, real butter, and as many other organic ingredients as possible for the best-tasting, old-fashioned double-crust pie you’ve ever eaten. Serves 8.

15 ounce package pastry for a 9” double-crust pie.

1 egg, beaten

5 cups peaches, peeled and sliced

2 tablespoons fresh-squeezed lemon juice

1/4 tablespoon vanilla extract

1/4 cup all-purpose flour

1/4 cup corn starch

1/2 cup white sugar

1/2 cup brown sugar

1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon

1/4 teaspoon ground ginger

1/4 teaspoon salt

2 tablespoons butter (don’t use margarine)

vanilla ice cream (optional)

Preheat oven to 450 degrees F. (For best results, preheat the oven with a pizza stone inside and bake the pie on top of the pizza stone. If a pizza stone isn’t available, use center oven rack.)

Line 9” pie plate with one of the pie crusts. Brush with beaten egg to keep the crust firm.

Place sliced peaches, vanilla extract, and lemon juice in a large bowl. Toss gently to coat peaches.

In separate bowl, mix flour, cornstarch, sugars, cinnamon, ginger, and salt. Transfer the mixture to the bowl of peaches and toss gently. Pour ingredients into the pie crust. Dot with butter.

Cover the pie with the second crust, folding edges under. Flute the edges or use the tines of a fork dipped in egg to seal them. Brush the remaining egg over the top crust. Cut at least four slits in the top crust to release steam while baking.

Bake for 10 minutes. Reduce heat to 350 degrees F and bake an additional 30-35 minutes until crust is brown and the juice bubbles through the vents. To prevent the edges from browning too quickly, cover them with strips of aluminum foil about halfway through baking time, or use aluminum pie crust ring. Cool before serving.

Bake, Love, Write: 105 Authors Share Dessert Recipes and Adviceon Love and Writing

edited by Lois Winston

What do most authors have in common, no matter what genre they write? They love desserts. Sweets sustain them through pending deadlines and take the sting out of crushing rejection letters and nasty reviews. They also often celebrate their successes—selling a book, winning a writing award, making a bestseller list, or receiving a fabulous review—with decadent indulgences. And when authors chat with each other, they often talk about their writing and their lives. Recipes. Writing. Relationships. In this cookbook 105 authors not only share their favorite recipes for fabulous cakes, pies, cookies, candy, and more, they also share the best advice they’ve ever received on writing and relationships.

Check out the Bake, Love, Write video author Kaye Spencer created for the cookbook.

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KILLER CRAFTS & CRAFTY KILLERS HOLIDAY SHOPPING GUIDE--CYBER MONDAY EDITION

Today is Cyber Monday. Around the world tens of thousands (if not more) people will be stealing time out of their workday to nail down some of their holiday shopping, hoping to score some great gift deals. Over the next few weeks we’ll all continue to shop, often online. So here at Killer Crafts & Crafty Killers we’re offering some gift suggestions in the form of books—both the old-fashioned kind and the digital kind—that will make some of your recipients squeal with glee—or in the case of today’s offering, drool with delight.

Up first today is Bake, Love, Write: 105Authors Share Dessert Recipes and Advice on Love and Writing, a dessert cookbook and so much more. This book not only includes 105 scrumptious dessert recipes, but it introduces readers to some wonderful authors who offer advice on life, love, and writing. Best of all, by purchasing this book, you’re helping feed hungry kids. A percentage of all sales will be donated to No KidHungry.

Bake, Love, Write: 105 Authors Share Dessert Recipes and Adviceon Love and Writing

edited by Lois Winston

What do most authors have in common, no matter what genre they write? They love desserts. Sweets sustain them through pending deadlines and take the sting out of crushing rejection letters and nasty reviews. They also often celebrate their successes—selling a book, winning a writing award, making a bestseller list, or receiving a fabulous review—with decadent indulgences. And when authors chat with each other, they often talk about their writing and their lives. Recipes. Writing. Relationships. In this cookbook 105 authors not only share their favorite recipes for fabulous cakes, pies, cookies, candy, and more, they also share the best advice they’ve ever received on writing and relationships.

Authors who participated in Bake, Love, Write include: Brenda Novak, Lois Winston, Debra Holland, Dale Mayer, Shelley Noble, Caridad Pineiro, Diana Orgain, Lisa Verge Higgins, Lynn Cahoon, Jasmine Haynes, Jan Carol, Meg Bellamy, Bobbi Chukran, Melissa Keir, Amy Gamet, Kristy Tate, Terry Shames, Barbara Phinney, Kitsy Clare, Raine English, Cathryn Cade, Haley Whitehall, Shilpa Mudiganti, Melinda Curtis, Jessa Slade, Jill Blake, Daryl Devore, Molly MacRae, Elizabeth Rose, Helena Fairfax, Lourdes Venard, Jessica Aspen, Maegan Beaumont, Kay Kendall, Elizabeth John, Victoria Adams, Cyndi Pauwels, Alice Loweecey, June Shaw, Donnell Ann Bell, T. Michelle Nelson, Nina Milton, Pam DeVoe, Skye Taylor, Conda V. Douglas, Pepper Phillips, Judy Alter, Cadence Denton, Lesley Diehl, Erin Farwell, Regan Walker, Kaye Spencer, Barbara Monajem, Kathleen Kaska, Catherine Kean, Rose Anderson, Suzie Tullett, Deborah Hughes, Cynthia Luhrs, Judy Baker, Alicia Dean, Leslie Langtry, Janis Susan May, Mitzi Flyte, Ruby Merritt, Renee D. Field, Kathryn Quick, Susan Cory, Judy Penz Sheluk, Kay Manis, Kathryn Jane, Debra Goldstein, E. Ayers, Chantilly White, Sloan McBride, Triss Stein, Ana Morgan, Adele Downs, L.C. Giroux, Pamela Aares, Nancy Warren, Barbara Lohr, J.J. Cook, Lynn Reynolds, Cori Arnold, B.V. Lawson, Lynn Franklin, M.L. Guida, Irene Peterson, Sue Viders, Liese Sherwood-Fabre, Susan Santangelo, Sheila Seabrook, Elaine Charton, Sharleen Scott, Kathy Bennett, Jody Payne, Reggi Allder, Ashlyn Chase, Beverley Bateman, Susan Lohrer, Donis Casey, Barbara Leavy, Stacy Juba, Karen Rose Smith.

Check out the Bake, Love, Write video author Kaye Spencer created for the cookbook.

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#CRAFTS WITH ANASTASIA--BOTTLE CAP JEWELRY WITH GUEST AUTHOR CONDA V. DOUGLAS

Conda V. Douglas had a childhood filled with authors, artists and goats in the kitchen, buffalo bones in the living room and rocks in the bathtub. Now she fills her life with writing, cooking and jewelry making. She writes the Starke Dead cozy mystery series for adults and the Mall Fairies series for tweens. To learn more about Conda and her books visit her blog. 

How to Make Bottle Cap Jewelry and Magnets

Bottle cap jewelry and magnets can be wonderful as gifts for all sorts of occasions. A baby shower? Give a bottle cap pin with the photo of the new mom as a baby! Maybe pins for all the attendees! How about making a bunch of Christmas bottle cap ornaments? Give out bottle cap magnets for a Halloween treat! Do six magnets with lovely, perhaps even personal, sayings printed on fun paper and place in a nice little metal box for a fun gift. Or bottle cap magnets for an easy project for your child's class? The limit is your imagination.

Materials

bottle caps (available at craft stores or collect your own)

1” circle epoxy stickers (made for bottle cap pendants and available in craft stores) or varnish

1” circle punch

super glue

1/4" pin backs, earring backs and/or magnets

images (available in craft stores specifically for bottle caps or use magazines, greeting cards, stickers, wallpaper, etc.)

beads, buttons, charms, glitter glue, etc. (optional)

1. Using the circle punch, cut out desired image.

2. Glue the image into the bottle cap taking care to smooth out any wrinkles. Note: Don’t use too much glue and don’t saturate the paper, but make sure the glue covers the entire back of the image. Allow to dry.

3. Place a 1" circle epoxy sticker on top of the image or coat the image with clear varnish. Allow varnish to dry.

 

4. If desired, glue object such as miniature charms or beads within bottle cap or add glitter glue around the inner perimeter of the bottle cap.

5. Attach pin back, earring backs, or magnet to back of bottle cap.

The Mall Fairies 3-Book Bundle

The Mall Fairies: Exile

Teenage fairy Swoop risks everything to protect her best friend from being exiled from their shopping mall home.

A Foodie Fairy’s First Foray

Pudge is exhilarated about her first day as a Foodie Fairy, until, one after another, food-filled disasters descend.

The Mall Fairies: War

Fairies, pixies and humans together! Will following their dreams lead to war?

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The Mall Fairies Sweet Tooth Cookbook

Swoop here, one of the main characters from the tween fantasy series, The Mall Fairies, with a little bit about this cookbook. The fairies and pixies of The Mall Fairies series inspired our author, Conda, to write this series of Mall Fairy short stories, each with a (real) recipe from the story. So, here's the cookbook chock-a-block full of fairies' tales and fun, easy and most of all sweet recipes! Chocolate molasses cake, banana bread, sugar cookies, pumpkin pie and more delightful desserts await you here. 

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