3-Minute Cake in a Cup
You'll need one box of Angel Food Cake Mix and one box of regular cake mix, any flavor. (I have used chocolate as well as pineapple)
Mix entire contents of each box together and pour in a storage container. You will have plenty of mix to keep on hand for when you want to make a dessert. You can also put some of the mix in a pretty jar for a quick Christmas gift.
To make a serving of cake, use three tablespoons of the dry mix and 2 tablespoons of water. That is all.
Using a large coffee mug, pour mix in it. DO NOT oil or spray the mug. Microwave for 1 minute. This is the fastest cake ever!
Enjoy.
Note: I poured chocolate syrup in the bottom of the cup before I added mix. So I had hot fudge cake! I've also put brown sugar and pineapple tidbits in bottom of cup for pineapple upside-down cake. Worked great!
Now for "To Save a Lady"
A DARING MASQUERADE
A move from Paris to New Orleans brings disaster to Elise
Plaisance’s predictable life as a lady’s maid. The son of her grief-stricken
mistress disappears, and Elise becomes involved in a web of deceit when she
turns to a cunning gentleman for help finding the missing boy.
A CAPTAIN BEWITCHED
Captain Jesse Cross has journeyed to New Orleans with
General Jackson’s army, but his biggest battle is one of the heart when he
falls for a French girl cloaked in mystery.
With the city on the brink of war, their romance is born in
the darkness of a moonlit courtyard and never meant to last forever.
A FUTURE IMPERILED
Deceived by an adversary and haunted by her tragic past,
Elise must risk everything to rescue her mistress’s son before all is lost, and
Jesse knows he has to stop her even if it means sacrificing his life to save a
lady.
Excerpt:
He tugged her
onto the banquette where a street lamp hung from a rope suspended across the
street. A haze of light shimmered through the fog. He stepped back to get a
better look at his quarry.
A black hooded
cloak, with beaded trim, shrouded her from head to toe. An excellent garment
for pursuing a man in the dark. The deep hood obscured her face, except for the
half mask she wore. The sparkling gemstones scattered across her silver mask
winked at him.
He couldn’t
believe a woman was out at this late hour following him.
You could
expect anything to happen in this bizarre city.
He shoved his
pistol in his waist belt. He figured he knew who was behind this caper.
“Bonnard hatched this little plot, didn’t he?”
His cousin,
Lieutenant Bonnard Reid, had been enthralled by the numerous whorehouses in the
city. Bonnard acted like a kid running from one candy shop to another. He
visited a different whorehouse every night and returned bragging about how the
women were so adept in the art of pleasure.
Bonnard had
begged Jesse to join him on his escapades, but Jesse had been too busy setting
up the general’s headquarters. He figured his cousin had taken the matter into
his own hands.
“Wait until I
see him tomorrow. He won’t pull a stunt like this again.”
“I do not know
the man you call Bonnard.” She repeated the name awkwardly.
He frowned.
“But you are here intentionally?”
“Oui.”
She stepped forward, closer to him.
The seductive
scent of flowers and musk intoxicated him. Like her face, her body was hidden.
It was all shadows and secrets beneath the cloak except for the flirty mask
with its twinkling gems, but his imagination pictured her as a beautiful woman.
Nude, of course.
“I am your
liaison.” Her sensual voice was a mere whisper carried in the wind.
“Liaison?” The
implication was so intimate that it aroused him. He reminded himself she could
look like a toad for all he knew. She could have a husband and ten kids waiting
at home for her.
Patricia Preston is a Southern author who writes historical
and contemporary romance as well as humorous Southern fiction. Her publishers
include New Love Stories, True Romance, Affaire de Coeur, Cloverdale Press, The
Blue and Gray Magazine, Sea Oats Review, and Carina Press. She won William
Faulkner Award for Short Fiction, the Lone Star Writing Competition for
Historical Romance, and Harlequin’s World’s Best Romances Short Story
Competition.
Her current titles include a historical romance, To Save a Lady, two humorous short
stories, “The Yard Sale” and “Laid to Rest” available on Amazon, and a
historical novella, Almost an Outlaw.
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1 comment:
Thanks for having me, Tina!! I wish everyone a happy holiday season and lots of fudge cake!
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