Jennifer Moorman's Blog, page 25

Cooking Through "The Baker's Man": Peanut Brittle

One afternoon I decided it might be fun to combine my love of reading with my love of cooking. I thought I would start with my first published novel,The Baker’s Man, mainly because it’sfullof baked goods, pastries, chocolates, and mouth-watering dishes. Another reason is because readers have asked me if I actually had recipes for some of the treats discussed in the book. And the answer isyes!The main character, Anna O’Brien, owns a bakery, so each chapter inThe Baker’s Manis titled with a bak...

Book Giveaway — Honeysuckle Hollow

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Book Giveaway — Little Blackbird

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Book Giveaway — The Baker's Man

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Cooking Through "The Baker's Man": Chocolate Chip Cheesecake Brownie

Sometimes when you need a bit of comfort, sharing a dessert with a good friend, while you’re both tucked away in a bakery’s corner booth surrounded by the smell of baking cookies gives you that. Sometimes when you need a bit of comfort, you don’t want to pick only one dessert from the menu. You want two or three. Why can’t you have that?

One day when Lily needed a break and didn’t feel like choosing between her favorite bakery desserts, she asked Anna to create something new that would give he...

Cooking Through Fiction: Mickey Mouse Club

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Birthday cakes are personal and normally bought or baked with a special someone’s likes in mind. They are sometimes brought to a table with candles blazing like a fire (this happens as you grow older). Sometimes they have sparking candles that you can’t blow out, and the crowd thinks it’s funny, but you keep trying to extinguish the flames anyway.

I’ve had all sorts of birthday cakes through the years. My favorites are usually chocolate, but I wouldn’t turn down a birthday cake, especially if...

Cooking Through Fiction: Honeysuckle Jelly

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One of my favorite heralds of summertime is honeysuckle. It’s like one morning, the shrubs decide it’s time to show off and welcome honeybees and butterflies, and they burst into bloom overnight.

The hills and sides of the road and backyards are covered in honeysuckle, either planted or wild. The air outside is full of the sweet scent, and I can’t help but open the windows and let it all into the house.
The smell of honeysuckle reminds of when I was a little girl, and my family and I strolled down the road to this patch of empty land that bloomed with honeysuckle every summer. We’d stand there grinning and sucking the sweetness from the flowers like hummingbirds. This year was no different—the honeysuckle went crazy, and I rolled down my car windows as I drove home every day, smiling and thinking, Welcome back. 

In Honeysuckle Hollow, Tessa receives a package containing keys to a dilapidated mansion with a mysterious past. The one decision her heart is whispering her to make is seen by others a reckless, impulsive mistake. Will she follow her heart?

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Honeysuckle JellyYields: 7 half-pints (4 cups)Level of Difficulty: Average
Ingredients4 c honeysuckle flowers4 c boiling water c lemon juice4 c sugar1 pkg liquid pectin
How to Make
Prepare the flowers by removing the tiny green tip at the base of the petals.Next, bring 4 cups of water to a boil in a large saucepan, turn the heat off, and then add the honeysuckle flowers you’ve gathered and allow them to steep for about 45 min., stirring occasionally.Strain the flowers from the liquid. You need t...

Cooking Through "The Baker's Man": Peanut Butter Cookie Pie

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As the end of the school year approaches, kids become fidgety and excited for the freedom of summertime. Their eyes become brighter and their smiles wider. They skip up the sidewalks in Mystic Water and chatter about upcoming vacations and days spent exploring around Jordan Pond.




Anna bakes up the school children’s favorite candies in all sorts of sweets. One of the town’s favorites is her Peanut Butter Cookie Pie, rich and chocolately and decorated with favorite peanut butter candies.

You don’t have to be out on summer break or a kid to enjoy this treat. Have you been longing to remember that feeling of excitement for the free days of summer, the late-night giggling during slumber parties, and riding your bike on hour-long adventures? Enjoy a slice of cookie pie, take a seat on the bakery’s patio, and remember.
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Peanut Butter Cookie Pie
Ingredients c unsalted butter (1 stick), melted1 large egg1 c light brown sugar, packed1 tbsp vanilla extractheaping c creamy peanut butter1 c all-purpose flour12 to 14 mini peanut butter cups c peanut butter M&Ms dash of salt
How to MakePreheat oven to 350F. Spray a 9-inch pie dish with cooking oil; set aside.In a large, microwave-safe bowl melt the butter, approximately 1 minute. Allow to cool for 1 minutes.Add the egg, brown sugar, peanut butter, and vanilla, an...

Cooking Through "The Baker's Man": S'Mores Brownies

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Fall is a beautiful season in Mystic Water. People gather around fire pits and bonfires and laugh, tell stories, and make S’mores. But what about in the spring and summer when the heat starts rolling in and you’d burst into flames if anyone so much as a lit a match around you?
That’s when Anna starts baking S’mores brownies. She knows when people are longing for the changing leaves and the crackling flames that the next best thing to a campfire S’mores is a brownie version.So when you can’t ha...

Giveaway: Enter to Win a Copy of Honeysuckle Hollow

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