
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, [...]
Published on March 5, 2008

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 of [...]
Published on June 10, 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 [...]
Published on May 12, 2007
I’d been thinking about making an authentic New York Style Crumb Cake for quite sometime. What prompted me to go ahead and actually do it was the current issue of Cooks Illustrated which has an article about how to make it right. At first glance, the recipe looks pretty typical. However, CI’s is the only [...]
Published on April 29, 2007