Anna | June 9, 2009
I was trapped in the waiting room at my doctor’s office yesterday, but it wasn’t so bad because there was a stack of Southern Living magazines. The current issue has a lot of good sounding recipes, but the one that caught my eye was Blackberry-Peach Coffee Cake. It’s so colorful! I’m [...]
Anna | August 29, 2008
It’s Friday, so to end the week on an efficient note (and begin a weekend of wild inefficiency), here’s a recipe that can double as breakfast or dessert. The original Pillsbury recipe yields two round cakes, but I halved it and made it as written below, sans icing. I actually love icing, but [...]
Anna | March 5, 2008
Here’s another treat for today. This is a cake I baked for my mom, who came to town for a visit. I had this coffee cake in the oven when she arrived and the whole house smelled great! The original recipe is from a book called A Texas Hill Country Cookbook but if you have problems, [...]
Anna | June 10, 2007
Today I made a very good sour cream coffee cake using a recipe from the second private collection (dated 1984) of the ladies of the Palo Alto Junior League. Here’s what they said in their intro:
“The lightest and loveliest of all the coffee cakes we have tested. The secret is in the proportions [...]
Anna | May 12, 2007
I was sitting on an airplane reading Woman’s World Magazine when I found this recipe. Being very hungry at the time, I couldn’t stop looking at the photo. I went to the store for ingredients as soon as I got home, but didn’t get around to baking the cake until this morning.
I took some liberties [...]