‘Tis the season to be baking! There is nothing like the smell of warm cookies to get you in the holiday spirit. Discover some scrumptious cookie recipes to add to your holiday goodie list this year at this live baking demonstration.
View this Meetup Live recording for a holiday cookie demo with Darci Hannah, baking enthusiast and author of the Beacon Bakeshop Mystery series from Kensington Books. Darci will show you how to make her classic brown butter shortbread cookies, lemon ginger sandwich cookies, and Almond Joy cookie bars. Darci will also share baking tips that will have your guests coming back for seconds—and even stuffing their pockets! Hear some stress-free holiday baking wisdom, and learn about Darci’s process for incorporating baking into her mystery novels.
Check out the recipes to follow along during the baking demo.
Timestamps:
- Intro (1:38)
- Brown butter shortbread cookies (5:44)
- Lemon ginger sandwich cookies (15:20)
- Almond Joy cookie bars (32:56)
- Q&A (51:12)
Top Q&A Questions:
- Can you use brown sugar instead of white sugar in the brown butter shortbread cookies?
- I think you can, and I think that would be really good. I use powdered sugar because powdered sugar dissolves and it’s a little lighter. The rule with our traditional shortbread cookies is one part sugar, two parts butter, and four parts flour so you can try that with brown sugar. Go ahead and experiment.
- How did you decide to incorporate baking into your mystery series?
- I started out writing historical fiction, then I switched to writing a mystery. I didn’t even know I had written a “cozy mystery,” which is a mystery solved by an amateur. In this mystery genre, there’s usually a hook and I was told that the hook could be food, which got me excited because I bake a lot. I love incorporating baking in my books because I get to share recipes in the back of the books.
Resources:
- Purchase Darci’s Beacon Bakeshop Mystery series, which includes the recipes in the back of each book.
- Darci’s social media
- Kensington’s social media
Last modified on November 27, 2023
