Guest Meri Allen Hot Fudge sauce #recipe +#giveaway

TINA KASHIAN: Please welcome my good friend and fabulous author, Meri Allen, with her new book, Fatal Fudge Swirl. She'll give you a taste of what's in the book and also pick one person who comments to receive a signed copy. The recipe is also perfect for any-chocolate loving dads on Father’s Day! We all love hot fudge so much that we are giving readers a second version in one week. Take it away Meri! 

 

 

Many thanks to Tina for inviting me to visit the kitchen as I celebrate the upcoming release of my latest Ice Cream Shop Mystery, FATAL FUDGE SWIRL.

True confessions time: In the kitchen, I like easy. Easy recipes and easy clean up. Any recipe that gives me easy PLUS delicious? That’s a keeper. That’s why I love this simple hot fudge sauce that will give you deliciously decadent chocolate flavor using only four ingredients.

It’s perfect for dressing up any dessert. Put a drizzle over store bought pound cake to make it special, or over sliced strawberries, or definitely over your favorite ice cream to make a hot fudge sundae. If you have a pretty little jar, it makes an easy and elegant gift, too.

Makes four servings. Easy to double or triple.

 

Ingredients

1 cup sugar

1 cup heavy cream

1 cup dark cocoa powder

I stick (1/2 cup butter, cut into 8-10 pieces)

 

Place all ingredients into a small sauce pan over medium heat. Whisk constantly until the butter melts and everything combines into a velvety smooth mixture.

 

Pour into a heat safe container (mason jars work well). If you’re not using it right away, let it cool completely and store covered in the fridge. When you’re ready to use it, let the unopened jar come to room temperature, then rewarm it in a bowl of hot water until it’s the temperature you like. Enjoy!

 

To enter win a signed, print copy of "Fatal Fudge Swirl," what is your favorite dessert? (U.S. Only for Print). Please leave an email address to enter as well.

 

 Here’s a taste:

A movie production brings drama—and murder—to a close-knit New England village, forcing Riley Rhodes to scoop out the suspects.

Former CIA librarian and amateur sleuth Riley Rhodes is loving her fresh start as the manager of the Udderly Delicious Ice Cream Shop. The leaves are turning, tourists are leaf-peeping, and Penniman, Connecticut is putting finishing touches on the weekend long Halloween Happening. But the village is also buzzing. Former child star Cooper Collins is overseeing the production of a romantic comedy that’s filming on the town green and his domineering socialite mother, Diantha, is planning her lavish Halloween themed wedding at her Inn on the Green. Her fiancé has run the Inn's kitchen for years, ably aided by his recent ex-wife, chef Mary Ann Dumas. An old friend of Riley’s, Mary Ann turns to her when the bride requests a spooky ice cream wedding cake.

But the weekend takes a frightful turn when Diantha is found dead and suspicion falls on Mary Ann. The cast of potential suspects is long—each wedding guest had a chilling motive to kill the vicious heiress. Can Riley unmask the murderer before another guest ends up on ice?

 

Meri Allen is the author of the Ice Cream Shop Mystery series from St. Martin’s Press. The series stars Riley Rhodes, a former librarian for the CIA who uses her skills to solve the murders that somehow keep disturbing the peace of her idyllic New England village of Penniman, Connecticut.