Recipe|Cake|Cinnamon Coffee Bundt Cake

 

Cinnamon Coffee Cake

Cinnamon Coffee Cake

Summary

This is an easy to make, and delicious cake. Serve Christmas morning or anytime as a breakfast cake with your coffee or tea.

Ingredients

1  cup butter, softened
1/2 cup granulated sugar
2 large eggs
2 tsp. pure vanilla extract
1 cup sour cream
1 tsp. baking soda
2 cups unbleached all-purpose flour
1 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. salt

Streusel Topping:

½ cup walnuts, finely chopped
1 cup brown sugar
1 tbsp. cinnamon
3 tbsp. unbleached all-purpose flour
4 tbsp. softened butter

Directions 

Cinnamon Coffee Bundt Cake

Cinnamon Coffee Bundt Cake

Put all streusel ingredients in a bowl and mix; set aside.
In large mixing bowl blend butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add eggs slowly, beating well after each addition. Beat in vanilla extract. In a separate bowl, combine sour cream and baking soda. In a third bowl add sifted flour, baking powder and salt. Beat flour mixture into butter – egg mixture alternating with sour cream. Spoon one-third of the batter into an oiled and floured Bundt pan. Sprinkle one-third of the streusel over batter. Cover with another third of batter and sprinkle with another third of streusel and over that, cover with remaining batter and sprinkle with remaining streusel.
Bake in 350° F oven for 40-50 minutes or until a knife or wooden pick inserted in the center comes out clean. When done, sit on cooling rack for ten minutes. Turn cake out on a platter and sift confectioners’ sugar on the top.
*Do not substitute milk soured by vinegar for sour cream as the consistency will not be the same.
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Desserts | Cookies | Flourless Chocolate Chip Peanut Butter Cookies

Recipe: Flourless Chocolate Chip Peanut Butter Cookies

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SummaryFor those of us out there who want a chocolate chip peanut butter cookie but, want or need to watch our wheat intake. This flourless cookie is a delicious alternative for traditional chocolate chip peanut butter cookie recipes, except, (without) the flour. I’m a cookie person; love a cookie hot out of the oven with a cup of coffee. This has become the cookie of choice in our home! It’s delicious and easy to make, plus flourless. Fewer calories, too!

Ingredients

  • 1/2 cup white granulated sugar
  • 1/2 cup brown sugar
  • 1-cup creamy peanut butter
  • 2 tsp pure vanilla
  • 1 large egg
  • 1 tsp baking powder
  • 1/8 tsp sea salt
  • 1-cup chocolate chips (or chocolate chunks)
  • 3/4-cup walnuts or pecans, chopped (optional)
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 350° F.
  2.  Cream peanut butter and sugar, until creamy and fluffy. Add vanilla, egg, baking powder, and salt in a large mixing bowl until thoroughly blended. Stir in chocolate chips and walnuts.
  3. Roll dough into 1-1/2 inch balls (approximately the size of a golf ball). *For easier handling, the dough can be refrigerated for about thirty minutes prior to making into balls.
  4. Place dough balls on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper; 2 inches apart.
  5. Flatten each ball with the tines of a fork.
  6. Bake at 350° F, for 10-12 minutes, or until the cookie is puffed up and lightly browned on the bottom. Do not overcook, or your cookie will be rock hard.
  7. Take cookies out of the oven, place the whole baking sheet on a wire cooling rack, and let cookies cool on pan for ten minutes–this prevents crumbling. Then take a spatula to remove cookie to wire rack and let cool for 15 minutes more; store in an airtight container.

Cooking note: When I first started making these cookies I rolled the cookie ball in crystallized sugar–just like my grandmother used to do with her peanut butter cookies–however, since then, while the grandchildren prefer the extra sugarI do not. My tastes have changed, and I have learned to cut back on my sugar intake, and I do not roll them in the extra sugar. In addition to this, for all those who do not know me, it is my preference to buy all ingredients “Organic” where I can.  If I can’t find organic chocolate chips, I buy organic chocolate chunks. Baking powder is not an item I have found in our local organic stores, however, I do buy it aluminum-free. I use sea salt as well.

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Hi Everyone! This is my first post in 2014–And I am extremely excited as I have a couple of writing projects planned for this year. One of them is a “My First Book” series, and the first book in the series is titled: Wild Animal Sounds. This will be age appropriate for toddlers 0-4.  This is a book I wrote and illustrated many years ago, and like many of my writings pulled it out and gave it another look and had renewed energy with it. The illustrations I am doing for the book are coming along lovely. I’m very excited to start sharing some of them as I go along, and the cover is almost complete.  And there will be more details given as I have them throughout the year about all my writing endeavors.

Today I am honored to have been interviewed by a fellow author/illustrator and educator, BookCoverImageJodi Desautels. Next week I will be giving away my educational, non-fiction book Buzzzzzzzz What Honeybees Do, to one of the commenters on her blog post.

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-Virginia

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Desserts | Cookies | Flourless Peanut Butter-Chocolate Chunk Cookies by Virginia Wright

Recipe: Flourless Peanut Butter-Chocolate Chunk Cookies 

SummaryFor those of us out there who want a peanut butter chocolate chunk cookie 

but want or need to watch our wheat intake. This flourless cookie is a delicious alternative for chocolate chip peanut butter cookie recipes except (without) the flour. I’m a cookie person; love a cookie hot out of the oven with a cup of coffee. This has become the cookie of choice in our home! It’s delicious and easy to make, plus flourless. 

Inside_Cookie2

Ingredients

  • 2 tsp. pure vanilla
  • 1/2 cup white granulated sugar
  • 1/2 cup brown sugar
  • 1 large egg
  • 1-cup creamy peanut butter
  • 1 tsp. baking powder
  • 1/8 tsp. sea salt
  • 1-cup chocolate chunks (or chocolate chips)
  • 3/4-cup walnuts or pecans, chopped (optional)
  • 1/2 cup raw crystallized sugar to roll cookie balls in (optional)

Instructions

  1. Mix all ingredients in order given. Refrigerate dough for thirty minutes for easier flatten_cookie3handling. Roll dough into balls; dip all sides in raw sugar (optional).
  2. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
  3. Place balls on a cookie sheet and flatten with the tines of a fork.
  4. Bake at 350 degrees for 10-12 minutes.
  5. Take cookies out of the oven and place the whole cookie sheet on cooling rack and let cookies cool on baking sheet for ten minutes–this prevents crumbling. Then remove to wire rack. Store in an airtight container.

Cooking note: When I first started making these cookies I rolled the cookie ball Pressed Cookies1in crystallized sugar–just like my grandmother used to do with her peanut butter cookies–however, since then, while the grandchildren prefer the extra sugar…I do not. My tastes have changed, and I have learned to cut back on my sugar intake. In addition to this, for all those who do not know me, it is my preference to buy all ingredients “Organic” where I can.  If I can’t find organic chocolate chunks, I buy organic chocolate chips. Baking powder is not an item I have found in our local organic stores, however, I do buy it aluminum-free. I use sea salt as well. All other ingredients organic as well.

Enjoy this flourless peanut butter chocolate chunk recipe! 

-Virginia Wright

Author, Food Writer, Recipe Developer, Foodie & Queen of Recipe Adaptation

 

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