Libby Klein I'm back with another great recipe from Silent Nights Are Murder. My candied gingerbread madeleines. These are addictive. And madeleines can be eaten for breakfast or as a tasty snack any time of day. If you don't have a madeleine pan just turn these into muffins and bake for 18-22 minutes or until an inserted toothpick comes out clean. Ginger is one of my favorite holiday flavors. What are some of yours? Let me know in the comments.
Candied Gingerbread Madeleines
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Gluten-free baker Poppy McAllister and her aunt Ginny are looking forward to a quiet, homey Christmas at their B&B in Cape May, but unfortunately, death isn’t taking a holiday this year . . .Ever since Thanksgiving, Poppy and her pals have been left with an unsolved mystery of the romantic kind. But at least this mystery isn’t the kind that involves murder. That all changes when the body of a fish supplier is discovered in the kitchen of her ex’s restaurant—and he’s frozen, not fresh.For once, it’s not Poppy who tripped over the corpse, yet she can’t escape being drawn in since the victim has a note taped to him reading Get Poppy. Figures—an engagement ring isn't labeled, but the dead guy is addressed to her. Now, while Aunt Ginny plans a tree-trimming party and pressures Poppy to decode a mysterious old diary, the amateur sleuth is asked to “unofficially” go undercover at the restaurant to help the police. Until then, the only crime Poppy had been dealing with was Figaro’s repeated thefts of bird ornaments from the tree; now it looks like it’s going to be a murder-y Christmas after all.
classes revolved mostly around the Culinary sciences and Drama, with one brilliant semester in Poly-Sci that may have been an accident. She loves to drink coffee, bake gluten-free goodies, collect fluffy cats, and translate sarcasm for people who are too serious. She writes from her Northern Virginia office where she serves a very naughty black smoke Persian named Sir Figaro Newton. You can keep up with her shenanigans by signing up for her Mischief and Mayhem Newsletter on her website. www.LibbyKleinBooks.com/Newsletter/
My favorite holiday flavors are clove and cardamom. Thanks for the yummy sounding recipe!
ReplyDeleteYum. Two of my favorites!
DeleteThese madeleines sound fantastic and I love the addition of candied ginger! I use it frequently and always have a large bag of it from King Arthur Flour in my pantry.
ReplyDeleteI agree. It's one of my favorite ingredients.
DeleteIt all sounds good to me. I like to make chili in the fall. I don't have a recipe I just thrown some ingredients together. conney.parkhurst@gmail.com
DeleteThank you so much for this yummy sounding recipe.
ReplyDeleteFor me, my favorite holiday dessert has to be my mom's recipe for no back fruitcakes. She always made them in mini muffin size. We use to laugh and call them portion control sized. They have all the good stuff (candied cherries, candied pineapple, raisins, pecans) and then held together with ground vanilla wafers, melted marshmallows, melted butter, eagle brand milk and maybe other ingredients I can't remember right now. You can also make it in loaf pans and slice. And they freeze well too. I still make them, but have to share the bounty cause if not, I'd eat way too many.
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Your mom's fruitcake sounds delicious!
DeleteWhat a fascinating baking schedule: bake, turn oven off, then bake again.
ReplyDeleteI don't remember ever seeing that before.
You do get those nice peaks from that!
DeleteCinnamon, cloves, nutmeg, pumpkin pie spice and apple pie spice are some of my favorite holiday flavors.
ReplyDeleteMmm. Mine too.
DeleteOh my, I love ginger! Enjoy most of the flavors of the season, cinnamon, cardamom, lemon, clove, nutmeg, caramel, peppermint, chocolate...it's a long season!
ReplyDeleteYum! So much more than just pumpkin spice.
DeleteI can't wait to make these again. They really are wonderful. And I love a dessert that can masquerade as breakfast!
ReplyDeleteThese look so good and I have been wanting an excuse to buy a madeleines pan. Congrats on the book birthday!
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