Coffee Cake

Good evening all!

The Monkey and I were in the kitchen again this weekend. We made one of my simplest recipes that's in my notebook/recipe book.

We started with these:



And made this:

Easy Cinnamon Coffee Cake
(Printable recipe)

Ingredients:
1 yellow cake mix
1 vanilla pudding mix (3.4 oz instant)
1 butterscotch pudding mix (3.4 oz instant)
1c. brown sugar
4 eggs
1c. water
1c. oil
1Tbsp cinnamon

Heat oven to 350 degrees and grease 9x13 pan

Mix cake and pudding mix. Add eggs, water and oil. Mix well.

Mix brown sugar and cinnamon in separate bowl.

Pour half of batter into pan, top with half of cinnamon mixture. Cover with rest of batter and top with cinnamon mixture.

Bake for 20 minutes, then reduce heat to 325 degrees. Bake for 35 minutes more.

Muffins

Well now that the weather has become and stayed fall like, its baking season.

Last week me and the Monkey made muffins. Everyone seemed to like them. And since we made a double batch they lasted all week. And were still really moist. They made a perfect breakfast for me to take to work.




Apple Muffins
(printable recipe)

makes 11-12 muffins

You will need:
1/3 c. brown sugar
1 egg
1/3 c. oil
1/2 tsp vanilla
1 c. finely diced apple
1/2 c. raisins
1 c. milk
2 c. flour
1 tsp. cinnamon
1/4 tsp salt
1/2 tsp. baking soda
2 tsp. baking powder

Preheat oven to 400 degrees. In large bowl mix sugar, egg, oil and vanilla. Beat with spoon until well blended. Stir in apples raisins and milk. Sift together flour, cinnamon, salt, soda and baking power. Add flour mix to wet mixture. Mix only until dry ingredients are blended in. Fill muffin cups 3/4 full. Bake 18 minutes.


Well here to a productive weekend, whatever that might be . . .cleaning? baking? crafting? or just taking it easy.