Christmas Undercover by Hope White

Bon Appétit and a Book: A delicious recipe of your choice to enjoy alongside the book

These mini blender muffins are by far my favorite recipe for a sweet treat in the afternoon when sitting down with a good book. I imagine these yummy muffins could be served at Healthy Eats restaurant, featured in “Christmas Undercover.” These are truly the best muffins I’ve ever tasted! (The original recipe can be found on: http://www.averiecooks.com)

Flourless Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Mini Blender Muffins

INGREDIENTS:
1 medium ripe banana, peeled
1 large egg
Heaping 1/2 cup creamy peanut butter
3 tablespoons honey or maple syrup
1 tablespoon vanilla extract
1/4 teaspoon baking soda
Pinch salt, optional and to taste
Heaping 1/2 cup mini semi-sweet chocolate chips

DIRECTIONS:
Preheat oven to 400F. Prepare mini muffin pans by spraying with floured cooking spray, or grease and flour the pans; set aside.

To the canister of a blender, add first 7 ingredients, through optional salt, and blend on high speed until smooth and creamy, about 1 minute.

Add chocolate chips and stir in by hand.

Using a tablespoon or small cookie scoop that’s been sprayed with cooking spray (helps batter slide off spoon or scoop easily), form rounded 1 tablespoon mounds and place mounds into prepared pans. Each cavity should be filled to a solid 3/4 full.

Bake for 8 to 9 minutes, or until the tops are set, domed, springy to the touch, and a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, or with a few moist crumbs, but no batter. Watch your muffins closely, and bake until done. Allow muffins to cool in pans for about 10 minutes, or until they’ve firmed up and are cool enough to handle. Muffins are best fresh, but will keep airtight at room temperature for up to 5 days, or in the freezer for up to 4 months.

Song Playlist: A prepared playlist of songs that embodies the book’s characters and their love story

Playlist for “Christmas Undercover”

When the Right One Comes Alone (Nashville TV show)
Let Down Your Guard, JJ Heller
Need You More, Darius Rucker
All for Love, Lady Antebellum
Slow and Steady, Of Monsters and Men
Your Love, Brandon Heath
Learn to Live, Darius Rucker
Breathless, The Corrs
Shatter Me, Lindsey Stirling
All I Want for Christmas is You, Olivia Olson (Love Actually)

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FATAL CHRISTMAS

FBI agent Sara Vaughn believes a group of pharmaceutical businessmen are engineering drugs with deadly results. Her boss won’t approve a sting operation, so she goes rogue””following the suspects on a hike in the Cascade Mountains to record evidence. But when Sara witnesses them murder one of their own, they target her. Saved by a handsome volunteer mountain rescue worker, Sara at first suspects Will Rankin is another bad guy hunting her. But when the widowed father of two risks everything to save her, she knows that Will is all that’s standing between her and seeing Christmas morning.

Echo Mountain: Saving lives and finding love in the mountains of Washington State