Making Coffee Cake :)

So I was thumbing through my copy of the Better Times Cookbook (printed from the website)
and I found a really easy coffee cake recipe. It was about 2 am and my oldest son wasn't going to sleep, so I decided to let him help me bake for breakfast tomorrow.

Easy Very Tasty Biscuit Mix Coffee Cake Recipe

2 cups of biscuit mix
2 tablespoons sugar
1 egg
2/3 cup milk or 2 Tbsp milk powder plus 2/3 cup water (double the powder if using instant milk powder)

Cinnamon Streusel Topping
1/3 cup of biscuit mix
1/3 cup brown sugar
½ teaspoon cinnamon
2 tablespoons butter/margarine
(I mix this up with my fingers)
*optional 2 Tbsp of Maple syrup (the real stuff, toss out that corn syrup impostor)


Preheat oven to 400 degrees F.Grease up a 9 inch round pan. Mix the cake ingredients together (or let your kid do it) and then pour evenly into pan. I jiggle it around a bit. Sprinkle the topping onto the batter making sure that the entire top is dotted with the yummy streusel mixture. Bake for about 20 minutes. If using syrup, drizzle it on the top when you take the cake out of the oven. Let cake cool before removing from pan.

I am letting it cool off before I put the cover on it. And when everyone is ready to eat, the coffee cake will be an easy thing to pull out! :) Sorry for the blurry pics. All I have is my crappy cellphone camera that is blurry and the color is off. Soon enough I will have a camera again!

Update- I haven't gotten the camera to get pics. (Darn heart issues are tuckering me out) but I made a cute recipe card to go with.

Cookies of awesome

I used the Kitchenaid Mixer recipe and adapted it based on my childhood memories:

Ingredients:

1 cup of brown sugar

1 cup of granulated white and organic sugar all mixed together (because I am not putting them in

their own containers, sugar is sugar.... it works)

1 cup of shortening.

2 Tbsp of powdered eggs and 1/4 cup water (or 2 whole fresh eggs)

3 cups of flour (mix of your own whole wheat and All purpose. I used all purpose because I didn't feel like grinding up some flour for this)

1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract

1 teaspoon baking soda

1 teaspoon salt

12 oz of chocolate chips (I used 2 cups of Ghiardelli milk chocolate chips from the freezer)

Cream the sugars, shortening, eggs and vanilla for about 30 seconds, scrape down and cream for another minute. Slowly add the salt, baking soda and and flour. Mix for about 2 minutes, and then stir in the chocolate chips

Drop in rounded teaspoons on a greased baking sheet, and bake in a preheated 375 degree oven for 10-12 minutes.

Take them out and cool them on wire racks.

Makes about 56 or so I am told. I am using half the cookie dough for ice cream in a few.

Recipe for bread I am trying today

Cuban Bread

5-6 cups all purpose flour
2 tablespoons dry yeast
2 tablespoons sugar
1 tablespoon salt
2 cups hot water (120-130 degrees)
sesame seeds or poppy seeds (optional)

In the bowl of your food processor, combine dry ingredients. Drizzle in hot water until the dough pulls away from the sides of the bowl and forms a ball. Let the dough spin around 20 times in the food processor.

Place the dough in a greased bowl, cover with a damp towel and let rise for 15 minutes. Punch down. Divide into two equal portions. Shape into two round loaves and place on a baking sheet. Cut an X 1/2 inch deep on the top with a sharp knife. Brush with water and sprinkle with sesame seeds or poppy seeds.

Place the bread on the middle shelf of a cold oven. Place a cake pan of hot water on the lowest shelf. Heat the oven to 400 degrees. Bake 30-40 minutes, or until golden brown.

Voila!


Recipe courtesy of The Complete Tightwad Gazette