¾ cup sharp Cheddar cheese, grated Instructions *Makes 2 dozen puffs-or 1 dozen if you make them twice as large for sandwiches Ingredients And this wouldn’t be a Doreen Sheridan review of a Magical Bakery series novel if I didn’t also mention how I still don’t care for Declan, Katie’s boyfriend, and still think Steve is a much better guy.īut to the recipes! I decided to skip the macaroon recipe, tempting as it was, solely because I’m a huge fan of the other dish on offer: Lucy’s Brazilian Cheese Bread (Pao de Queijo) It was also sad but satisfying to finally find out what happened to Franklin Taite. Watching Cookie struggle with her former faith and its associations, as well as with her present-day circumstances-her new husband also comes from a background that was once involved with voodoo and is even more stridently against it than she is-was one of the highlights of this book for me. One member of Katie’s coven has more of a passing familiarity with both, though: Cookie Rios’s father had been a voodoo priest back in Haiti, and his untimely death had been part of the reason Cookie turned her back on the religion of her youth. The woman wanted her to find a voodoo queen and a gris gris, neither of which terms-much less actualities-is Katie familiar with. If she hadn’t been inclined to help before, discovering that the newcomer is the niece of Detective Franklin Taite-a man dedicated to wiping out evil magic-certainly spurs Katie to look into the young woman’s desperate pleas. Katie and her friends discover a distraught young woman who claims, among other things, that she was sent to Katie for help … right before the strange young woman falls into a coma. Our heroine, Katie Lightfoot, is just finishing up a meeting of her Spellbook Club (read: coven) at the Honeybee Bakery she part-owns when a sudden clamor at the door disturbs the circle.

Magic and Macaroons by Bailey Cates