Boo Scotti -- a #Halloween recipe from @LeslieBudewitz

LESLIE BUDEWITZ: Could these ghostly cookies be any cuter? No tricks to these treats. They can’t be simpler, and that’s what we want for holiday fun, right?

You could make your own biscotti, but for this non-recipe recipe, go ahead and buy them. Any flavor, plain or chocolate-covered, will do. Mine weren’t real wide on the flat side, but still easy to decorate. I used a spoon for the white chocolate and a chop stick for the dark chocolate, though my mouths turned out more round than a ghostly O! Follow my honey’s advice, as I did, and test your drawing skills on the parchment paper before decorating. 

When I was a kid, my mother and I took ceramics classes at a studio near her house. She made the darling little pumpkin. 

Happy haunting!

Boo Scotti

biscotti

white chocolate

semi-sweet chocolate

Lay a sheet of parchment paper on a cutting board. Lay your cookies on top of it, on a flat side. 

 

Melt the white chocolate. Use a spoon to spread white chocolate on one end of each cookie, making a curved ghost-like shape at the bottom edge. Don’t worry about any drips on to the edges of the cookies—they add to the ghostly effect. Allow to sit, until chocolate is hard, about an hour. 

Melt the semi-sweet chocolate. Use a chopstick, toothpick, or small paintbrush to create eyes and mouths on the white chocolate ghosts. Allow to sit until chocolate is firm. If you goof, it’s easy to scrape off a bit of chocolate, fill it in, and start over. Or, just eat ‘em. 

Happy Halloween! 

PS: The audio book of PEPPERMINT BARKED is out today! Why the cover is different from the paperback and ebook, I don't know. But it's super cute! Find it here.  

From the cover of BLIND FAITH, written as Alicia Beckman (Crooked Lane Books, October 11, 2022)  

Long-buried secrets come back with a vengeance in a cold case gone red-hot in Agatha Award-winning author Alicia Beckman’s second novel, perfect for fans of Laura Lippman and Greer Hendricks.

Two women whose paths crossed in Montana years ago discover they share keys to a deadly secret that exposes a killer—and changes everything they thought they knew about themselves. 

Leslie Budewitz is the author of the Food Lovers’ Village Mysteries and the Spice Shop Mysteries, continuing in July 2022 with Peppermint Barked. She's the winner of Agatha Awards in three categories. Death al Dente, the first Food Lovers' Village Mystery, won Best First Novel in 2013, following her 2011 win in Best Nonfiction. Her first historical short story, "All God's Sparrows," won the 2018 Agatha Award for Best Short Story. As Alicia Beckman, she writes standalone suspense, beginning with Bitterroot Lake (2021) and continuing with Blind Faith (October 2022, Crooked Lane Books).

A past president of Sisters in Crime and a current board member of Mystery Writers of America, she lives in northwest Montana with her husband, a musician and doctor of natural medicine, and their cat, an avid bird-watcher.

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