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The winner of MIAMI, MISTLETOE, AND MURDER is…Kai W, and the winner of the Mating Instinct ARC is Savannah Miller. Congratulations, ladies!
Ready for more holiday fun? Cause best-selling author KATIE REUS (and all-around awesome person) is here with a delicious holiday treat for you…and she has giveaways, too. Welcome, Katie!
Happy release day to Cynthia! I’m so excited about her release of Angel in Chains! Since she’s invited me here for her release day party I’m going to share some holiday awesomeness with you guys. Every year my mom bakes a bunch of to-die-for pies and cakes, but my favorite is her bourbon chocolate pecan pie. Pecan pie by itself is amazing and practically a must for the holidays if you live in the South, but add in chocolate and bourbon…omg, my mouth is watering right now. So how do you make this goodness, you ask?
What you’ll need:
1 pie shell
1 cup white sugar
1 cup light corn syrup
1/2 cup butter (one stick)
1/4 cup bourbon
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
4 large eggs
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 cup semisweet chocolate chip morsels
1 cup chopped pecans
How to Prepare:
1. Preheat oven to 325 degrees F
2. In a small saucepan combine sugar, corn syrup, and butter. Cook over medium heat, stirring constantly, until butter or margarine melts and sugar dissolves. Cool slightly.
3. In a large bowl combine eggs, bourbon, vanilla, and salt. Mix well. Slowly pour sugar mixture (#2) into egg mixture, whisking constantly. Next, stir in chocolate chips and pecans.
4. Pour mixture into pie shell.
5. Bake in preheated oven for 50 to 55 minutes, or until set. Serve warm or chill. Optional: add a dollop of whipped cream when serving.
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Hope you guys can use this! Since Cynthia has been awesome enough to have me here, I’d love to give away some stuff. Just leave a comment telling me your favorite holiday dessert and be entered. One random commenter will win a copy of Miami, Mistletoe & Murder, my recent romantic suspense holiday novella (International). And another random commenter will win an ARC of Mating Instinct, book 3 in the Moon Shifter series (out in March 2013, US only).
A little about Katie: I’ve been reading romance since a young age—ever since I discovered my mom’s hidden stash. Luckily the addiction stayed with me into adulthood. I’m the author of the Moon Shifter series for NAL/Signet Eclipse and I also write paranormal romance and sexy romantic suspense for Carina Press and Harlequin Nocturne. To learn more about me please visit my website, my blog, facebook or find me on twitter @katiereus.
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My step father makes something called “honky rolls”. His name for it not mine. They remind me of the Italian pastry Kolachy (cannot spell it; I had it when my in laws lived in chicago. Hubby’s step father is Italian). In the middle is a nut filling sprinked with powdered sugar. YUM YUM.
That sounds like a great recipe! I’m going to have to give it a try for the family Christmas dinner. Maybe it will help them mellow…lol. Thanks for the giveaway.
My fav holiday dessert is peach cobbler. I cannot stand peaches, but I love the syrup and the flaky warm crust. Add a scoop of vanilla bean ice cream to the piping hot cobbler and its a dessert to drool over.
My favorite is mixed fruit soup.
Katie your pecan pie sounds delish!! I may have to try baking one this year. My favorite dessert is Magic 7 layer bars!!
I like to make seven layer cookies, but due to nut allergies I can’t always bring them. I recently found “slutty brownies” which NO ONE turns down.
I don’t think that cheesecake is a holiday dessert but I do love sugar cookies that are decorated with Christmas colors. Most definitely!
I love pumpkin pie and jelly cookies.
I love pumpkin pie and decorated suger cookies
My favorite holiday dessert has to be cutout sugar cookies with frosting applied with a heavy hand. I don’t know why I don’t make them year round.
Christmas cookies!! YUM!!
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OMG this sounds amazing. Alcohol burns off when cooked right? I ask since I don’t typically drink since alcohol doesn’t agree with my medicine but chocolate pecan pie…this I think I could do!
Anyway my favorite holiday desert is Pumpkin Crumb Cake served warm with freshly whipped whip cream! YUM!
One of my favorites are sugar cookies. They’re easy to make and we have fun decorating them.
Peanut Butter & Pretzel Brittle.
Thanks again Cynthia for having me!
And thank you to everyone who has stopped by so far! All this talk of desserts….think I might have to bake something (like 10 somethings) tonight. My mouth is totally watering 🙂
Both your books sound awesome. Although this may not be a traditional holiday dessert, I absolutely love German chocolate cake and will eat it anytime or any place…yummy!
Oh it is not the holidays without my grandmother’s recipe for pumpkin pie… it is a must have! 😀
My favorite holiday dessert is homemade pumpkin pie (from scratch).
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Pies aren’t my favorites..but anything cakey, doughnutty or cookieish will do!!!
Def Christmas cake balls I make every year…with egg nog. Ooh and my sister always has berries on Christmas Eve. Tons! I love that part too.
We usually have a sweet potato pie from my mother-in-law and I make a coconut cake for my husband. Cookies are made and eaten all through the holidays.
I LOVE your books I just finished Primal Possession :)!
My favorite treat is either cut out cookies or my oreo Cheese cakes its so yummy and so easy to make!
all you need is
8oz cream cheese
8oz cool whip
1 cup sugar
1 tea spoon of vanilla extract
and oreos 🙂
Mix them all together and its done 🙂
My favorite Christmas treat is probably Toffee. One of my friends used to make it for me but moved and now /i have to make my own. 🙁
Thanks for this fun post!!
Wow all those desserts sound so yummy! I think my favorite is French Silk pie. Katie, love your books and would love to add this one to the “e-pile”!
I love Christmas cookies! I loved Miami, Mistletoe & Murder!
I love pecan pie. It is my absolute favorite. I wait every year until Thanksgiving to get some as that is the only time we have it. Never tried it with bourbon.
Christmas crack is a easy one with saltines and chocolate and caramel. google it. It’s easy to make. YUM.
Lisa B
I love my little Italian grandmothers cookies. There is nothing like them in the world!!
I always make frosted sugar cookies and peanut butter fudge. Yummy
A friend of ours makes a sticky cake with cherries and nuts and I always overindulge lol.
ONE OF MY ALL TIME FAVORITE RECIPES IS SWEET POTATO PIE:D!
yummmmeeee! I can seriously eat a whole PIE all by my lonesome((giggle))! My Sweet Potato Pie follows UR all-American Traditional Directions…buttttt..I NOW LOVE USING GRAHAM CRACKER SHELL…OOOH IT’s ever more Delicious with the Graham Cracker shell Crust MORE flavaaaaaaa:P! Lastly U gotta include BROWN SUGAR:P! N JOY!
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May not be your normal holiday dessert but for me it is my Granny’s Strawberry Pie! She only makes it for our family holiday gatherings, so for me it’s extra special!
There’s nothing better than my Nonna’s Honey Nut Biscotti! And the best part is you don’t have to bake them twice! Thanks Katie for many hours of pure reading pleasure!
For dinner/dessert it is a fruit salad. For the holiday itself is the Hungarian cookies my gram made. She passed away almost 9 years ago and I got the recipe. Now I make them every year and it’s like gram is still here.
Love Christmas cookies. My favorite is a toss up between sugar cookies and snicker doodles.
Ever since I was a child the Chrissy Tradition in my family has been to make Rum Balls. It is a recipe that Mum has been making since the 70s. My brother, sister, Dad and I love mixing in the condensed milk (and licking the spoon), even though we are adults now.
Must be made with Australian Bundaberg rum.
My favorite dessert is pumpkin pie. It’s not to sweet but just perfect.
That pie sounds sinfully rich so of course it has to be delicious. My favorite holiday dessert has got to be NY Style cheesecake, the one with a strawberry swirl is excellent but even alone is heavenly.
christmas cookies in general are my go to!
OMG!.. That pie sounds AMAZING!.. My favorite holiday treat is my pumpkin cheesecake.. I’ve been making it the last few years, and it has been a huge hit!.. Thanks for the giveaway!
My family seems to love my vanilla pineapple cake, Nope… Not upside down but a pinapple cake w/ vanilla puddin, vanilla cake mix, vanilla pudding, vanilla kool whip icing & let’s not forget the pineapple. single layer is YUM YUM good but if i’m gonna make it, they ❤❤❤ as a double layer!
Pumpkin pie with whipped cream. Yum!!!
Pink fluff, which I know no other name for! Whipped cream, cherry pie filling, crushed pineapple, and condensed milk combine to make this awesome treat! Thanks for sharing n the chance to win!
My favorite holiday dessert is a toss up between pecan pie and fudge.
My favorite holiday treat is nut rolls.
My favorite holiday dessert is 7-Up Salad (lemon Jello, crushed pineapple, whipped cream, marshmallows, etc.) Everybody loves it!
Three of my favorite things in one post: Bourbon, Chocolate and your books! My favorite holiday treat is anything that my sister, the pastry chef, makes! I’m definately making this recipe.
chocolate chip cookies
I love Christmas sugar cookies, biscotti, and rum cake! A little ice cream doesn’t hurt either. 🙂
Thanks for the giveaway!
My moms sponge cake it to die for as well as Gran’s tripple layer chocolate cake