Welcome guest author Amanda Flower + book #giveaway

Please welcome today's guest, Amanda Flower.   She's offering a giveaway below.

Amanda Flower, a USA Today bestselling and  Agatha Award-winning mystery author, started her writing career in elementary school when she read a story she wrote to her sixth grade class and had the class in stitches with her description of being stuck on the top of a Ferris wheel. She knew at that moment she’d found her calling of making people laugh with her words.  In addition to being an author, Amanda is former librarian in Northeast Ohio. 

Bailey’s Easy Easter Birds’ Nests

By Amanda Flower

Easter comes later this year at the end of April, which is a great thing because there is a promise of real spring weather. Where I live in Ohio, March Easters are known to come with snow; even some April Easters have been snowy. However with Easter on April 22^nd, there is a much better chance for spring flowers and blue skies even in Ohio. And I’m very ready for spring. Because of that, I am thinking of spring and Easter recipes. One of my favorites and the easiest by far from one of my books can be found in the back of Criminally Cocoa, an e-novella in the Amish Candy Shop Mysteries. If you read the series, the e-novella takes place between book three, Premeditated Peppermint and book four, Toxic Toffee, which comes out in July. The novella just released and it’s about a case of sabotage that Bailey King and her Amish cousin Charlotte Weaver have to solve in New York City, where Bailey lived before moving to Ohio’s Amish Country. While there, Bailey shares this Amish recipe in the midst of solving the crime. It’s a great one to do with kids too. Enjoy!

Ingredients

·      Container of pretzel sticks

·      1/4 cup caramel sauce

·      One bag candy-coated milk chocolate eggs

·      Parchment paper

Directions

1.              Warm caramel in a saucepan over medium heat until it’s melted and easy to stir

2.              Put pretzel into a large bowl. Pour caramel over the pretzel sticks; stir to coat the pretzels with the caramel.

3.              Scoop pretzel mixture from bowl with a large spoon onto parchment paper and form into small bowls. To make this easier, you can hollow the center out to create the nest with the back of the spoon.

4.              Arrange three chocolate eggs in each nest.

5.              Let cool and enjoy!

GIVEAWAY

Today, Amanda is offering a giveaway of ASSAULTED CARAMEL,  the 1st in the series, a delicious read. Leave a comment and your email address so she can contact you if you win, and tell her if you're looking forward to spring. 

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