11/ cups dark or semisweet
2
2
1 cup brown sugar
chocolate bits combined
1 egg yolk
with 1/ cup toffee bits
2
2 cups sifted flour
1/ cup toffee bits for top2
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
ping
Preheat the oven to 350° F.
Cream together the butter and sugar. Add the egg yolk and beat until smooth. Add the flour, mix, then add the vanilla. At this stage, Faith uses her hands, as the dough tends to be crumbly. Knead until smooth.
Spread the dough in a greased ninebytwelveinch baking pan and place in the middle of the oven.
Again, Faith finds that it is easier to pat the dough evenly into the pan using her hands.
Bake for twentyfive minutes and take the pan out of the oven.
Distribute the combined chocolate and toffee bits evenly over the cookie layer and bake for four minutes more.
Remove the pan from the oven and immediately spread the melted chocolate and toffee bits. Sprinkle what is now the frosting with the remaining toffee bits.
It is important to let the cookies cool completely in the pan before cutting into squares.
This is a decadently rich cookie and makes either twentyfour or thirtysix cookies. It’s up to you.
NOTE ON RECIPES:
As with Faith’s other recipes in The Body in the Cast and The Body in the Basement, all these will taste just fine with healthwise modifications such as Egg Beaters, lowfat sour cream, 1 percent milk, butter substitutes, and the like. Unfortunately, the cookies definitely need the real thing—the best chocolate bits you can find and real toffee bits. Think of them as a reward for all those rice crackers you eat.
Acknowledgments
I would like to acknowledge George Gabriel, “Captain John Parker,” of the Lexington Company of Minute Men, and David Hackett Fischer, author of Paul Revere’s Ride, for their help with the historical portions of the book. Thanks also to Robert Hilton for the title and sundry bog information. My special thanks to the best agent in the books, Faith Hamlin.
About the Author
KATHERINE HALL PAGE is the author of thirteen previous Faith Fairchild mysteries. Her first book in the series, The Body in the Belfry, received the Agatha Award for best first mystery novel. She also won an Agatha Award for her short story “The Would Be Widower,” and The Body in the Lighthouse was nominated for a Mary Higgins Clark Award. She lives with her husband and son in Massachusetts. You can visit her website at www.katherinehallpage.com.
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