Thanks to everyone who participated in the Spring Scavenger Hunt! It was fun for all the authors, and we hope readers had a great time, too!
You have probably already seen that the grand prize winner is Jamie G. Congrats to Jamie. Enjoy your new Kindle. The two runners-up are Melanie S and Jean F. Your books will be arriving shortly.
The winner of the set of Amish suspense novels on my blog is Britney Adams. As soon as I receive Britney's address, her books will be on the way to her.
My apologies for the problem with my e-mail account, which went down in the midst of the hunt. Thanks to all of you who got in touch with me. No matter how you communicated, your name was entered in the drawing!
Best wishes again to the winners, and thanks to everyone. We hope you'll join us again the next time!
Blessings,
Marta
Monday, April 7, 2014
Thursday, April 3, 2014
SPRING SCAVENGER HUNT
Welcome to Stop 25 in the Spring Christian Fiction Scavenger Hunt! If you've happened upon this stop out of order, you may want to go back to Stop 1 at http://www.robinleehatcher.com/scavenger-hunt-stop-1 to begin. That's also where the hunt will end. If you get lost along the way, check in at http://www.robinleehatcher.com/scavenger-hunt-participating-authors-stops/
At each stop, you'll collect a clue, printed in red. Write them down as you go. The hunt ends on April 6th at Midnight, Mountain Time, so you have all weekend to finish. No need to race!
First prize is a Kindle Fire HDX plus $100 gift certificate. Two runners-up will receive all 31 of the books featured in the Scavenger Hunt. Individual authors will also be giving prizes at their stops, so don't forget to look for that at the bottom of each post.
It's my great pleasure to introduce Judy Miller to you. Judy and I first met at a Christian Writers Retreat many years ago, and we had great fun brainstorming together. I'm honored to have her guest on my site. Judith Miller is the best-selling, award-winning author of more than 30 historical romance novels. She is known for her unique settings and love of history. Learn more at www.judithmccoymiller.com.
You won't want to miss Judith's latest book. Here's a bit about it: A Shining Light is the third book in the Home to Amana historical series. A young widow returns home to Iowa after the devastating loss of her husband, but when she arrives, she finds the family farm destroyed. She finds refuge with the kind people of the Amana village, where she is drawn to tinsmith, Dirk Knefler. But is the simple, cloistered life what she wants for herself and her son?
You can purchase A Shining Light at http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/a-shining-light-judith-miller/1115664287?ean=9781441263599&itm=1&usri=9781441263599&cm_mmc=AFFILIATES-_-Linkshare-_-GwEz7vxblVU-_-10:1&r=1,%201, http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00DWA6BD0/ref=s9_simh_gw_p351_d0_i1?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=center-2&pf_rd_r=1A46EWNSQ0SFWA3KABZX&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=1688200382&pf_rd_i=507846
or at http://www.christianbook.com/a-shining-light-home-to-amana/judith-miller/9780764210020/pd/210025?product_redirect=1&Ntt=210025&item_code=&Ntk=keywords&event=ESRCP
In A Shining Light,
I feature a tinsmith, a craftsman who made everything from buckets and kitchen
utensils to rain gutters for the Amana homes. One of the very special items
made by the tinsmith was what has become known as the Amana Wedding Cake Tin. Sternkutchen, a marble cake, was baked
in the large star-shaped tin.
At each stop, you'll collect a clue, printed in red. Write them down as you go. The hunt ends on April 6th at Midnight, Mountain Time, so you have all weekend to finish. No need to race!
First prize is a Kindle Fire HDX plus $100 gift certificate. Two runners-up will receive all 31 of the books featured in the Scavenger Hunt. Individual authors will also be giving prizes at their stops, so don't forget to look for that at the bottom of each post.
It's my great pleasure to introduce Judy Miller to you. Judy and I first met at a Christian Writers Retreat many years ago, and we had great fun brainstorming together. I'm honored to have her guest on my site. Judith Miller is the best-selling, award-winning author of more than 30 historical romance novels. She is known for her unique settings and love of history. Learn more at www.judithmccoymiller.com.
You won't want to miss Judith's latest book. Here's a bit about it: A Shining Light is the third book in the Home to Amana historical series. A young widow returns home to Iowa after the devastating loss of her husband, but when she arrives, she finds the family farm destroyed. She finds refuge with the kind people of the Amana village, where she is drawn to tinsmith, Dirk Knefler. But is the simple, cloistered life what she wants for herself and her son?
You can purchase A Shining Light at http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/a-shining-light-judith-miller/1115664287?ean=9781441263599&itm=1&usri=9781441263599&cm_mmc=AFFILIATES-_-Linkshare-_-GwEz7vxblVU-_-10:1&r=1,%201, http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00DWA6BD0/ref=s9_simh_gw_p351_d0_i1?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=center-2&pf_rd_r=1A46EWNSQ0SFWA3KABZX&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=1688200382&pf_rd_i=507846
or at http://www.christianbook.com/a-shining-light-home-to-amana/judith-miller/9780764210020/pd/210025?product_redirect=1&Ntt=210025&item_code=&Ntk=keywords&event=ESRCP
Judy has sent me a mouth-watering exclusive post to share with you!
The Amana Wedding Cake by Judith Miller:
As you can see from the pictures, the cake is very large
which would allow for thin, yet filling slices of cake. The cake recipe used
for weddings was made in four different colors, yellow, pink, white, and
chocolate, but today there is disagreement in the Colonies whether the
Sternkutchen should be frosted. While some prefer no frosting, others dust it
with powdered sugar and still others prefer to drizzle the cake with a simple
sugar glaze. There are even a few who frost the Stern with a butter-cream frosting. The cake may be baked in a
large bundt pan (half the recipe) if you don’t have a prized Amana star-shaped
tin.
The recipe and directions follow:
Sternkuchen
(Marbled Star Cake)
If using a bundt pan
instead of star pan, cut recipe in half.
For white cake batter For
pink cake batter
½ cup butter 1/2
white cake batter
2 cups sugar 2
to 4 drops red food coloring
3 cups flour
1 cup milk
2 tsp. baking powder
8 egg whites, beaten stiff
For yellow cake batter For
chocolate cake batter
½ cup butter ½
yellow cake batter
1 ½ cups sugar ½
cup cocoa
2 cups flour
2 tsp. baking powder
½ cup milk
8 egg yolks
2 tsps. Vanilla
Preheat oven to 325ยบ.
For the white cake, cream first two
ingredients of white cake recipe. Stir in flour alternately with milk. Add
baking powder. Mix well then fold in stiff-beaten egg whites.
For pink
batter, take ½ of white cake batter and pour into a bowl. Add 2 to 4 drops red
food coloring. Set aside white and pink batters.
For yellow
batter, cream butter and sugar for yellow cake batter. Stir in flour, baking
powder, and milk. Add egg yolks, and beat well. Blend in vanilla.
For
chocolate batter, take ½ of yellow cake batter and pour into a bowl—beat in
cocoa.
If using
the star-shaped cake tin, trace form on waxed or parchment paper, and line tin.
Then grease and flour tin. Carefully pour yellow batter into pan, then add
white batter, chocolate batter, and finally the pink batter. Do not fill pan to
the top—leave one inch headroom. Excess batter may be poured into a greased and
floured cake pan or cupcake pan.
Bake 40-50
minutes. Remember, less time is required for a smaller pan. When cool,
carefully remove the cake from pan and frost or sprinkle with powdered sugar.
Note: I had to
bake this an additional 15 minutes, so be sure to test before removing from the
oven!!
THE SCAVENGER HUNT SKINNY
Thanks for stopping by my blog! Before you move onto Stop 26, http://judithmccoymiller.com/scavenger-hunt-stop-26/ , be sure to write down this Stop 25 clue: "but a bad".
BONUS PRIZE! Enter to win an additional prize--a complete set of three of my Amish Romantic Suspense novels. Just send your name and e-mail address to me at marta@martaperry.com.
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