Better Late Than Never

Well, I was going to blog once a week and then my life went a little crazy on me. But I am back now. Today I will share a quick and easy recipe for a coffee cake that I like to use as a dessert when I have guests for dinner. However, I am posting it because a friend of mine was looking for ideas for snacks to bring to Bible Study and this would be a great recipe for that situation as long as you can pull off having it warm when it is served. Don't get me wrong it's not awful and nasty when it's cold, it's still really tasty, but when it is warm it is just downright mmmmm. As for the crochet tip of the day, it is just that, a tip, maybe I'll have a pattern for you next week, but just a tip for today.

Sour Cream Coffee Cake:

2 cups flour

2 tsp baking powder

1 tsp baking soda

pinch of salt

3/4 cup butter

1 cup sugar

2 egss

1 cup sour cream

t tsp vanilla

Combine first four ingredients in a bowl. In another bowl, cream butter and sugar; add eggs, one at a time. Add the dry ingredients to the butter/sugar/eggs alternately with the sour cream (ie. bit of dry, mix, bit of sour cream, mix). Stir in vanilla. Pour this mixture into a greased 8x12 casserole dish.

Topping:

1/4 cup butter, melted

1/4 cup brown sugar, packed

1/2 tsp cinnamon

1/2 cup chopped pecans (or any nut...my personal favorite for this and most recipes is walnuts)

Just before putting the cake (the batter you just poured in a casserole dish) in the oven, drizzle the melted butter over it. Combine the last three topping ingredients and sprinkle the combination over the melted butter you just put on the cake batter.

Bake at 350 for about 30 minutes, until a cake tester comes out clean.

Voila, you are done. Like I said, I prefer to serve it warm and I also find that, like the name suggests, it is best when accompanied with a hot beverage. As you can imagine, I drink mine with a good cup of tea, but hey, if you're a coffee drinker, I won't judge (not a lot anyways). Hope it turns out!

Crochet Tip: Always have a small project on the go while you are doing something big like a blanket. Blankets often have a repeated motif or row pattern, sometimes only using one stitch. Depending on how short your attention span is (mine is quite short) set a reasonable goal for how many rows you will do and how often (to keep yourself going at the project). Then every once in a while, around the time you start dreading finishing the goal, lol, put it away and find a quick, fun little project that will only take a couple hours to complete. This way, the goals will make you feel like you're accomplishing something (even though the blanket doesn't look any bigger) and when you take a break from it and complete something you'll have new excitement for the bigger project by the time you get back to it. Here is where the tip is coming from:

Do you see the beautiful multi-coloured ripple blanket? Yea, SUPER tedious SOOOO I decided to make a top (right) for myself, it took a couple hours, I was done, I could wear it. It all worked out and now I am ready to keep going with my beautiful blanket. I'll take a picture of it when it is done.