Misfits 1: the cupcakes

Just in case you missed it, Misplaced Souls (Misfits of the Adept Universe 1) is now available for preorder and will release on Tuesday, April 14. I’m so excited to share Mory’s first full-length book (she also narrates a novella in Dowser 8.5) and I hope you enjoy the necromancer’s POV!

If you’d like to ‘bake along’ while reading, here are the cupcakes mentioned in Misplaced Souls. Those marked with an asterisk can be found in the Adept Universe Cookbook, including the newly added Envy in a Cup.

Cozy in a Cup* – banana chocolate chip with dark chocolate buttercream
Allure in a Cup (new) – lemon cake with chocolate buttercream
Serenity in a Cup* – carrot cake with cream cheese icing
Rapture in a Cup – yellow/chocolate swirl with chocolate cream cheese icing
Envy in a Cup (new)* – cocoa spiced cake with spiced-cocoa buttercream
Heaven in a Cup (new) – white cake with coconut buttercream
Sass in a Cup* – chocolate blackberry cake with chocolate blackberry buttercream
Happiness in a Cup* – peanut butter cake with honey buttercream

**A dense but moist cocoa spiced cake with spiced cocoa buttercream.**

Will you be baking and reading on release day, aka Tuesday? I think I might!

– AMAZON – APPLE BOOKS – KOBO – BARNES & NOBLE – SMASHWORDS –

New to the Adept Universe? The first book is Cupcakes, Trinkets, and Other Deadly Magic (Dowser 1). Or click here for the entire reading order.

Cupcakes mentioned in Dowser 7

Champagne, Misfits, and Other Shady Magic (Dowser 7) features Jade back in her baking groove in Vancouver. Since readers last saw her (in Reconstructionist 1) she has created seven new cupcakes, and I’ve been sharing some of those recipes in my last few monthly newsletters. I will update the Dowser Cookbook to include those new recipes, and re-release the free PDF ‘aka the third edition’ to my new release email list on January 18, 2018.

But! I know that some of you like to bake cupcakes on or around release day (I normally do as well) and since there are numerous cupcakes mentioned in Dowser 7 – twenty-four!! – I thought I’d share the entire list ahead of time.

Appearing in Dowser 7: peanut butter cake, fudge cake, honey buttercream, chocolate buttercream, and peanut butter icing.

Cupcakes marked with an asterisk (*) appear in the Dowser Cookbook. Cupcakes with double asterisks (**) have been released in my newsletter and will be added to the cookbook for release day.

In order of appearance:

Elation in a Cup** – peanut butter cake with chocolate buttercream
Delirium in a Cup** – chocolate peanut butter cake and chocolate peanut butter icing
Clarity in a Cup* – apple spice cake with honey buttercream
Happiness in a Cup** – peanut butter cake and honey buttercream
Enchantment in a Cup – chocolate peanut butter cake with peanut butter icing
Glee in a Cup** – peanut butter cake with peanut butter icing
Exultation in a Cup – chocolate peanut butter cake with dark chocolate buttercream
Wonder in a Cup – white cake with dark chocolate buttercream
Lust in a Cup* – dark chocolate cake with chocolate cream cheese icing
Charm in a Cup* – citrus yellow cake with strawberry buttercream
Hug in a Cup* – dark chocolate cake with buttercream
Buzz in a Cup* – mocha fudge cake with mocha buttercream
Comfort in a Cup* – banana cake with buttercream
Cozy in a Cup* – chocolate chip banana cake and dark chocolate buttercream
Serenity in a Cup* – carrot cake with cream cheese icing
Bliss in a Cup** – fudge cake with peanut butter icing
Tart in a Cup – blackberry cake with blackberry buttercream
Vixen in a Cup* – chocolate gingerbread cake with salted caramel buttercream
Love in a Cup* – dark chocolate cake with strawberry buttercream
Sass in a Cup* – chocolate blackberry cake with chocolate blackberry buttercream
Flirt in a Cup – blackberry cake with chocolate blackberry buttercream
Harmony in a Cup – white cake with cherry buttercream
Sex in a Cup* – cinnamon chocolate cake with chocolate buttercream
Ecstasy in a Cup – double chocolate cake with lemon buttercream

I think I’ll either bake Cozy in a Cup or Serenity in a Cup. Join me live on Facebook at 4pm PST January 18 to find out which cupcake I decided to bake!! And seriously, between you and me, getting through chapter five of Dowser 7 without cupcakes is going to be difficult!

Will you be indulging in any treats and/or cupcakes while reading Dowser 7? If you do, and you enjoying sharing photos, please tag me in your social media posts!! I’d love to see what you’ve baked/chosen.

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GETTING EXCITED!

In which I get bamboozled.

I just wandered into the kitchen to find Michael playing Tetris with the fridge freezer.

“Wow,” I said, seriously impressed that he’d taken the time to divide the turkey mushroom casserole into individual meals and portion out the turkey pot pie filling.

“We have a lot of food,” he said, grunting with effort. “I’m trying to get it to all fit.”

“Oh,” I said, blindly walking into his trap. “Maybe we should take something out.”

“Good idea. How about this?” Michael grabbed a green Tupperware container, popping it open to reveal the very last Clarity in a Cup*. “Oh,” he said, utterly blithely. “Only one left.”

So yeah. That’s how Michael just tried to steal the last cupcake in the house.

I got the final word though. Just as I was exiting the kitchen and dashing out to the office, I said, “we’ll halve it at coffee break.”

*Clarity in a Cup will release in my newsletter, Cupcakes, Chocolate, and Other Magical Musings on November 1, 2016. If you aren’t a subscriber yet, you can sign up here.

Dowser Series: Cookies, Cupcakes, and other Selected Recipes, Vol. 1

I’ve finally collected together some of the recipes from the Adept Universe. So far I’ve included sixteen cupcakes, two cookies, and a brownie from Dowser, books one through six, and Catching Echoes (Reconstructionist 1).

I’ve made the cookbook available as a free PDF download while I slowly develop and test bake more recipes. I will update the PDF periodically. When it is ready, I’ll have it formatted as an ebook and a paperback.

If you sign up for my new release mailing list or my monthly newsletter you will automatically be emailed the download link twenty-four hours later.

Fun! Fun!

*Note: ETA: February 14, 2017 – the recipe book now includes Vixen in a Cup and Clarity in a Cup (from Catching Echoes, Reconstructionist 1)

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Dowser 6: The Cupcakes

FYI

The following cupcakes either appear, or are mentioned, in Dowser 6 – just in case you want to bake along. 🙂 I’ve linked the names to the recipe (if I’ve published it). I will slowly work away at getting more of the recipes published.

Lift in a Cup – white cake with coffee buttercream

Hug in a Cup – dark chocolate cake with buttercream

Delight in a Cup – white cake with lemon buttercream

Lust in a Cup – dark chocolate cake with dark chocolate cream cheese icing

Buzz in a Cup – mocha cake with mocha buttercream

Thrill in a Cup – white cake with mocha buttercream

Rapture in a Cup – chocolate and lemon cake topped with chocolate-cream-cheese frosting

Vixen in a Cup – salted-caramel-frosted chocolate-gingerbread cake

Serenity in a Cup – carrot cake with cream cheese icing (this is Solace in a Cup without the additional chocolate)

– DOWSER 6 PREORDER NOW AVAILABLE –

Release date: May 5, 2016

Preorders currently available on Amazon, Kobo, iBooks, Barnes & Noble, and Smashwords.

Dowser 6: Lift in a Cup

Usually, business in the bakery was quiet through the end of December and into the new year, with just a slight bump around New Year’s Eve. But it was three weeks into January already, and I’d had to bake extra Hug in a Cup — a buttercream-topped dark-chocolate cake — and Lift in a Cup — a delicate white cake with coffee buttercream — when we’d sold out an hour after opening. – Artifacts, Dragons, and Other Lethal Magic (Dowser 6)

Download recipe here as a PDF: LIFT IN A CUP PDF

I’ll be posting a master list of all the recipes appearing in Dowser 6 this week. And yes, including the Hug in a Cup mentioned in the excerpt above.

Thank you to my test bakers and my proofreaders!!

– DOWSER 6 PREORDER NOW AVAILABLE –

Release date: May 5, 2016

Preorders currently available on Amazon, Kobo, iBooks, Barnes & Noble, and Smashwords.

Dowser 1: Cupcakes and Vampires

Cupcakes, Trinkets, and Other Deadly Magic (Dowser 1)

Dowser 5: cupcakes

I’ve had a few requests to post a list of the cupcakes eaten or mentioned in the Dowser books with each new release. So, I thought I would dash off this blog post just in case anyone wanted to bake before – or while – they’re reading Dowser 5 (release date: July 23, 2015).

New Creations (recipes to come):

Vixen in a Cup – chocolate gingerbread cake with a salted caramel icing.

Blitzen in a Cup – a rich but airy chocolate cake that was heavy on the mocha and iced with eggnog buttercream.

Joy in a Cup – a simple buttercream-frosted lemon cake (Recipe will be posted – along with a giveaway – on the Reading Cafe on August 7, 2015).

Old favourites:

Charm in a Cup – lemon cake with strawberry buttercream

Love in a Cup – chocolate cake with strawberry buttercream

Buzz in a Cup – mocha fudge cupcake with mocha buttercream icing

Other recipes can be found here.

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The Dowser 5 ebook will be available THURSDAY, JULY 23, 2015 on Amazon, Kobo, iTunes, B&N, and Smashwords. The paperback will follow about two weeks later. The preorders are now available.

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What cupcake should be featured in Dowser 5?

At the beginning of Dowser 5 *spoiler alert* Drake eats three different cupcakes. Two are new creations of Jade’s, and the fledgling has previously tasted the third one.

Dowser Series cupcake Masterlist — The Cupcake Masterlist for the Dowser Series

As I was working through the third draft today, I thought it might be fun if readers of the Dowser Series decided on the ‘previously tasted’ cupcake.

To that end, I have embedded a poll below – which I seriously hope works – with five possibilities. All of the cupcakes on the poll were mentioned in Dowser 1, and therefore could have previously been consumed by Drake (which is the main criteria).

Pick one. Majority rules.

I promise to release the cupcake recipe a couple of weeks before I release Dowser 5. Yum!

A read-a-long with the author: Cupcakes (Etc)

I’m about to send The Oracle #1 off to the editor – yay – and dig back into writing Dowser #4. Yes, I have titles for both of those books and I will release them soon as well.

During the next couple of weeks as I write Dowser #4 I’m going to be doing some fun things that I thought you might like to know about and/or participate in.

Starting Wednesday, I’m reading through the first three Dowser books. I’ll download them on my iPad, sit down, and actually read them as if I was … well, a reader. I’ll share my favourite quotes and thoughts about certain sections as I read. Perhaps you will have questions yourself? Or favourite quotes to share?

I’ll start a new post here on the blog and a new thread on my Facebook page for each book as I read.

I’m expecting to start Cupcakes, Trinkets, and Other Deadly Magic on Wednesday. The ebook is perma-free everywhere if you haven’t grabbed it yet (links on the book page). I’m a fast reader, so I expect to have it done in a day, barring any other work that needs my attention. Then I’ll read Trinkets (Etc) and then Treasures (Etc).

The second thing I’m going to be doing is testing some new cupcakes – specifically with some wild blackberries I picked the other day. It has been suggested that my readers may want to participate in this process and perhaps even come up with a name or two, so we will do that as well 🙂

Third, and most importantly because Jade needs new chocolate for Dowser 4, I will be test tasting these:

I know I’m such a martyr for my craft. Yes – if you didn’t already know it from my Facebook post – I went a little crazy and dented my credit card pretty hard at Xocolat right before we moved. Did I mention we just picked up and moved to Salt Spring Island? No? Well, we did. It’s an adventure (more on that later).

I will select a chocolate bar a day … or two or three a day if I run into something I don’t like enough to eat plain (I bake with any chocolate I don’t love enough to just eat). I’ll share the bar and my tasting notes on Facebook and do a digest version here.

Fun, yes?

Okay, so it all begins Wednesday with reading Cupcakes (Etc).

I hope you join me!