Blueberry Crumb Cake

More like Coffee Cake

This week's recipe of choice comes from Sihan of Befuddlement. She picked the Blueberry Crumb Cake found on page 192-193. I have been out of the loop so to speak with the group and I was glad this was the recipe to bake because I am tired of making things that I would never eat; although I always give the goodies away anyways. I believe it is the smells that I really enjoy and this cake smelled delicious.

This is a really simple recipe (which can be found in entirity on the Befuddlement site). 

I used frozen blueberries and on the crumb it calls for a food processor but I was too lazy to get mine from the garage so I used a fork and it crumbed together just wonderfully. I think next time I will use blackberries and pecans. Enjoy!

TWD: Carmel Crunch Bars

Carmel Crunch Bars

This weeks Tuesday post is from Whitney of What's on the table. You can get the entire recipe on her site here. 

These Bars were easy. If you want simple quick bars these are it. First you make the shortbread layer, bake it, and then top with chocolate of your choice. The options were semi or milk chocolate and I choose milk chocolate because I think it complements the toffee well. Chris doesn't like toffee so I did half with toffee and the other half with mini M&M's. The M&M's are semi sweet so they weren't overpowering. 

First day Chris liked them a lot but after they rested overnight he could taste the espresso and he doesn't like coffee so they became give away bars. The kids still enjoyed them so don't be shy on day two if you don't like coffee ( he is tender about that flavor ). 

I will make these again, I think next time I will use semi sweet chocolate in the batter and white chocolate and almonds on top. Wow! getting hungry already.

Tuesday's Late this week

Devil's Food White Out Cake

Sorry my post is late this week... seems like I have been taken over by the Educational Gods (haha) and realized that a project was due at the beginning of the week and not at the end of the week so my last minute has been upgraded to Hurry the Hell up if you want a good grade project. Wonder if the instructor would find humor in that title??? 

Well it's a good thing I made this cake early for Valentine's Day or I wouldn't have anything to post. The choice this week was from Stephanie of Confessions of a City Eater. It's the Devil's food White Out Cake pg 247-249. You can get the entire recipe here. I was so glad Stephanie choose this one because it's the cover of the cookbook and it's chocolate YA! I will say it was rich and good. I did not put enough of the icing on it however. I was afraid, after tasting the batter a lot, that the cake was so rich and to add more richness with icing would be bad. After letting the cake rest in the fridge overnight and having a SMALL slice, both Chris and I realized the icing was not sweet at all. It was a great complement to the rich chocolate of the cake. This was a good recipe. I enjoyed it and it saved pretty well. 

I am going to try to get next week on time but this is a theme I am sticking with for a the week I guess... running late. And to top it off somehow my alarm was ten minutes behind. How does that happen???

World Peace Cookies

World Peace? If it has Chocolate; Hell Ya!

The choice of the week was for World Peace Cookies picked by Jessica at a cookbookhabit. Reading the intro for these cookies I was excited because my husband loves salt and loves chocolate so what a better cookie! And describing them as "Not just a little salty, but remarkably and sensationally salty" I couldn't go wrong. Well, he said they were "OK" and didn't get as excited as I wanted but then again I can't compete with the Tube Cookies from Toll House according to him. We have discussed 'gourmet' at length and how tubes don't fall into this category (I don't think he cares) Needless to say; I think they are pretty good cookies but my world peace would consist of Diet Dr. Pepper, coffee, chocolate cupcakes with not too sweet icing, twix, kit kat, ice cream, oh man I think my blood sugar is rising now just thinking of these wonderful, horrible for you treats... 

Sorry... the recipe can be found in it's entirety here thanks Jessica. Next week is Floating Islands... don't even know what that is but I need a vacation so I'm there.