It wouldn’t be Christmas without cookies.
The town of Rudolph New York is the setting
for Vicki Delany’s new series, the Year Round Christmas mysteries. The first
book, Rest
Ye Murdered Gentlemen, was released this month. Rudolph wants to be known as America’s
Christmas Town and to the delight of the townsfolk a reporter for a big
European travel magazine is in town to write an article on them. Excitement is high at the semi-annual (yes,
they have two a year) post-Santa Claus parade reception in the town hall. The
party is being catered by Vicky Casey, owner and chief baker of Victoria’s Bake
Shoppe. Vicky’s gingerbread is rapidly
becoming a Rudolph institution as is her ginger cake and hot chocolate with
ginger tonic. Also prominent at the
party are Vicky’s special Molasses Spice cookies.
Too bad someone slipped poison into the
special cookie Vicky made for the special guest ...
Vicki Delany’s Molasses spice cookies (poison not included)
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2 cups all-purpose flour
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1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
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1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
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1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
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1/2 teaspoon salt
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1 1/2 cups sugar
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3/4 cup (6 oz) unsalted butter, room temperature
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1 large egg
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1/4 cup molasses
P reheat oven to 350 degrees. In a medium bowl, whisk together flour, baking soda, cinnamon, nutmeg, and salt. In a shallow bowl, place 1/2 cup sugar; set aside.

Vicki is offering a copy of REST YE MURDERED GENTLEMEN to one lucky reader (US or Canadian addresses only). Please leave
a comment by midnight, Monday, November 23, to enter. Vicki would love to know what your favorite holiday baking is.
I love making and eating all kinds of Christmas goodies! Even fruitcake!!
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My holiday baking is cookies or cinnamon sugar pecans. I am always available to taste test when my friends try new recipes! Thanks for the chance!
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Sugared nuts are always great. And so easy to make. And to eat!
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ReplyDeleteI enjoy baking desserts: pies, cakes, and snicker doodles. Thank you for the cookie recipe and for the giveaway.
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I love baking cookies for the holidays. Every year I try and collect new cookie recipes. Thanks for the giveaway. poohwine1217@gmail.com
ReplyDeleteWelcome, Vicki! Love the cookie recipe and the book sounds fabulous. My favorite baking recipe is for White Chocolate Blondies; but I make variations of blondies for every holiday (Pumpkin Blondies coming up for Thanksgiving). EMS591@aol.com
ReplyDeleteI just bought this book yesterday! Can't wait to read it!
ReplyDeleteI am the only one in my family who does not like fruitcake, and yet for some reason I am the only one who knows how to make it! My siblings insist that I bake each of them a fruitcake every year as they prefer mine to any other (I think it must be the Grand Marnier I use to soak the cakes), so this is my favorite holiday baking task because my family enjoys the results so much.
ReplyDeleteThe best reason to bake!
DeleteCee, feel free to experiment on that recipe with me! I love fruitcake and Grand Marnier -- the combo sounds fabulous!
DeleteI would love to live in Rudolph as I am a year round Christmas lover.
ReplyDeleteMolasses Spice Cookies sound wonderful. I fear I am a cookieholic! Congrats on your delightful new series, Vicki!
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ReplyDeleteA cookieholic. WHat a great word. Thanks, Krista.
ReplyDeleteI love cozies with bakeries in them. I really love this cookie rcipe, I have some molasses in my pantry and just might have to make them today since it is cold out and a good day to bake, looking forward to this new series. I love the Lighthouse Library series. dr(dot)oldsmobileaticloud(dot)com
ReplyDeleteThese cookies also keep and store very well. I mail them to my daughter in BC and they survive the trip just fine.
DeleteI love molasses cookies!! (My waistline does not!) Rest Ye Murdered Gentlemen is the next in line on my bookshelf! Looking forward to it!
ReplyDeleteI bake my moms jelly cookie recipe every year. I also try a new recipe each year.
ReplyDeleteWould love to win a copy of Rest Ye Murdered Gentlemen. Thanks for the cookie recipe.
ReplyDeleteI make a ginger cookie that is different. I'll have to try yours. suefoster109@netzero.net
ReplyDeleteI hope you like them, Sue.
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ReplyDeleteenjoy cozies with recipes. pwtish171@gmail.com
ReplyDeleteRecipe sounds yummy, book sounds even better! No bake peanut butter date balls is a must-make if I want my family happy.
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We used to bake with the kids when they were little and our waistlines were smaller. These days our girls' do the baking with THEIR little ones. We are sent care packages to make sure we don't lose weight. LOL
ReplyDeleteI'd love to add a copy of Rest Ye Murdered Gentleman to my personal home library.
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Oh my! Your asking me to pick a favorite holiday baking is? That's a difficult one. I'll just name some that I make every year: Brown Sugar cut out Sugar Cookies, Gingersnaps, Snickerdoodles, Reese's Peanut Butter Treats, Peanut Butter Kiss Cookies. dbahn@iw.net
ReplyDeleteYummy!
DeleteWe make homemade sugar cookies and everyone gets to use the cookie cutters and decorate them their own way. Thanks for the chance to win a copy of your book!! darholley1@aol.com
ReplyDeleteI love cut-out and decorated cookies, but these days maybe I'm getting a bit lazy!
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ReplyDeleteI love all kinds of cookies... the more stuff the better!
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Hello!
ReplyDeleteI love all kinds of cookies... the more stuff the better!
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Just the cookie I was looking for! Thanks for the recipe, am going to try this today. And thanks for the giveaway. I want to live in that town (without the murders, of course).
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Hope the recipe turns out okay.
DeletePersimmon cookies are my favorite for holidays only because that's when they are ripe. lkish77123 at gmail dot com
ReplyDeletePersimmon cookies?!!? Oh, my -- I think I'm in love!
DeleteI'm not baking very many things for Christmas this year--but I think I will try your cookie recipe.
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Recipe sounds great but the book sounds even better. Thanks for the chance to win
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My all time fave is walnut fudge........Hope to get the book!! rachaelabrams317@gmail,com
ReplyDeleteI love sugar cookies! Your recipe sounds great!
ReplyDeleteHave been really wanting this book!!!
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Della at deepotter@peoplepc.com My grams used to make a molasses cookie that was chewy and spicy we loved them. Been ages since I'd even thought of that. Thanks for the memories and I am looking forward to giving them a try. Just showed the recipe to my daughter and she is all for it. Thanks.. And for the offer of the book as well. Looks most interesting and would love to read it.
ReplyDeleteSorry. Almost forgot. Our thing was to make sugar cookies, Peanut Butter Fudge and Divinity and visit the assisted living and nursing homes in the area on Christmas Eve. It was a family thing for many years. The stories we heard. Such wonderful memories they had. We loved their stories. Some were heart breaking. Most were grand adventures. Della
DeleteWhat a lovely thing to do. And such great memories for you
DeleteThis is very similar to my soft ginger cookies. It's my favorite during the holidays.
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Nancy R in Ottawa - Hi Vicki, loved the book; gave a copy to my sister, who will read it on the plane next week as she heads for Christmas and winter in the Bahamas. Loved the cookie recipe too - it reminds me of the molasses cookies made by my mother in law in rural Nova Scotia (she put raisins in hers). Thanks for both the good reading and good eating!
ReplyDeleteForgot to mention my favourite holiday baking - it's the traditional Plum Pudding made every year by my mother, now almost 93. Served warm, flaming with brandy, and either sugary hard sauce or creamy rum sauce.
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