Every book club needs a snack to go with the book being discussed and Kerry Hammond is here to tell us about the latest book related snack from the Denver Book Club Crime & Beyond.
Crime & Beyond Book Club met this week to discuss Orphan
X by Gregg Hurwitz. You can read our review of the book HERE. Any good book
club serves a snack at each meeting. Our group takes turns bringing snacks and
members volunteer for the meeting they prefer.
Many times, our creative members are able to match the snack
to the book. When we read Michael Connelly’s The Lincoln Lawyer, one member
created a fruit tart that was designed as a Lincoln hubcap. When we read Jo
Nesbo’s The Snowman, a member created a cream cheese snowman, complete with
blood spatter.
Lorraine Masonheimer, Mystery Playground's master crafter,
always comes up with a unique and creative snack when it’s her turn. She has
allowed me to share her Orphan X cookies here, but I want to first give you a
little background. It’s a slight spoiler, because the event the cookies are
meant to show happens a little bit into the book. But it’s by no means a plot
point.
In the book, Peter is a little boy who lives in Evan Smoak’s
building. He lives quite a few floors below Evan and in a few instances sends
up a helium balloon with an attached note to Evan. Lorraine’s cookies are Peter’s balloons and notes to Evan.
Ingredients:
Everything you need to make the sugar cookie recipe of your
choice
Balloon cookie cutter
Square or rectangle cookie cutter
Parchment Paper
Icing Tube
Icing Tube Tips
Straw
String
Step One: Make Your Cookies
Mix your sugar cookie dough according to your recipe. Roll
out the dough and using your cookie cutters, cut out an equal number of Balloon
cookies and square/rectangle cookies. Using your straw, poke a hole at the
bottom of each balloon and the top of each square/rectangle. Place on parchment
paper and cook according to the recipe.
Step Two: Ice the Balloons
When cookies have cooled, using your icing tube and a small
tip, decorate your balloon as you choose. You can just outline it, or fill it
in.
Step Three: Ice the Notes
Using the same icing tube and tip (or switching out for a
different tip and color) write your notes from Peter. Ours were intentionally
written with a shaky hand to be like a kid wrote them and occasionally reversed e's and r's
and misspelled as in the book. The
messages we used were: “next time,” “I'm sorry, Fergive
me yes no,” “Your friend,” “Skary Men R Here Help,” “take out a knee!?,” and “We done here?”
Step Four: Attach the Balloons to the Notes
Using small pieces of string, tie your balloon to your
notes.
Take to your book club and serve with juice boxes, Peter’s
drink of choice.
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