Cinnamon Sugar Coffee Cake

Cinnamon Sugar Coffee Cake

Ingredients

1-10 inch metal Bunt pan

Non-stick spray

1 Duncan Hines Moist Deluxe yellow cake mix

1 (3.4oz) box Jello-O instant vanilla pudding

3/4 cup coconut oil for cooking and baking

3/4 cup water

4 eggs

1 tsp butter extract

1 tsp pure vanilla

Filling

3/4 cup sugar

3/4 cup walnut, chopped

7 tsp cinnamon

Almond Glaze

1 cup powdered sugar

1 to 2 tbsp milk

1/2 tsp almond extract

Preheat oven to 350

Spray Bunt pan with non-stick cooking spray, set aside

In large bowl mix together the cake mix and the vanilla pudding

Add the oil, water, eggs, butter extract and vanilla. Stir by hand until ingredients are blended. Pour half of the batter into the pan.

Make the filling. Mix together the sugar, walnuts and cinnamon. On top of batter, add the filling mixture and swirl into the cake batter.

Bake 1 hour. Cake is done when it springs back with a light touch from the top. Remove and let it sit 5 minutes.

Loosen the cake by gently running a knife around the side of the pan. Gently invert onto a cake plate and let it cool until slightly warm. Make glaze by mixing together the powder sugar, milk and almond extract.
Pour glaze over top and sides of cake. Serve warm or at room temperature. 

{This recipe comes from my go-to cookbook, "Rosalie Serving Country"}

Enjoy!

Country Sausage Gravy

 Delicious Biscuits and Gravy....I don't think you can wrong with a biscuit smothered in a country sausage gravy. I've always loved country gravy. Put a bunch on a chicken fried steak, cover your mashed potatoes with it, dip your french fries in them and don't forget to use your bread to wipe your plate clean...get every last bit of goodness in your belly, cause this stuff 

is delicious.

Country Sausage Gravy

1 roll pork sausage

1/3 cup flour

1/2 teaspoon salt

1/2 teaspoon black pepper

*4 cups whole milk

salt and pepper to taste

1. In a large skillet or dutch oven, {I don't have a large enough skillet, so I use my dutch oven} fry sausage on medium heat until no longer pink and cooked through.

2. Stir in the flour, salt and pepper all at once. Slowly add your milk about 1 cup at a time. Stir until your gravy starts to thicken and gets hot and bubbly. *If you like thick gravy, use a little less milk. Boil for a few more minutes and add salt and pepper to taste.

See, its that easy!

Enjoy!

Homemade Buttermilk Biscuits

Here in the South we love our comfort food! And one of my families favorite foods of comfort is good ol' buttermilk biscuits. These biscuits are perfect for breakfast with a warm cup of tea; both with a generous amount of honey. 

These biscuits are light and airy and melt-in-your mouth buttery goodness. They are a little sticky to deal with, but its nothing that a dough scraper and floured hands can't handle. 

HOMEMADE BUTTERMILK BISCUITS

2 cups all-purpose flour

1 tablespoon baking powder

1 teaspoon baking soda

1/2 teaspoon salt

1/3 cup butter, cut into pieces, at room temperature

1/4 cup cream cheese, at room temperature

3/4 cup buttermilk

melted butter for brushing biscuits

1. Preheat oven to 425 degrees. In a medium bowl combine flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt. Mix together and make a well for your next ingredients.

2. Cut butter and cream cheese into flour mixture with a pastry blender or your fingers. Do this until your dough looks like small peas.

3. Add buttermilk, stir until dry ingredients are moistened. Sprinkle some flour on top of your dough.

4. On a flour surface {I like to use my large cutting board for easier clean up}, dump the dough on to your cutting board or counter top. Knead 3 or 4 times. Pat or roll dough to desired thickness.

5. Using a floured 2 1/2 inch biscuit cutter or top of glass, cut your dough. Place biscuits on a lightly greased baking pan or baking dish. 

6. Bake for 10-15 minutes, remove from oven and brush biscuits with melted butter.

Enjoy!

Sweet Blueberry Biscuits

I'm a tad obsessed with Nordic Ware. Especially nifty little pans that make your food look so pretty, people think you spent hours crafting it to perfection. Truth be told, I spent 15 minutes prepping and about 15 minutes baking these delicious Sweet Blueberry Biscuits. The pan did all the pretty work for me, and I get to sit back and take credit with all the oohs and awes of how beautifully delicious these biscuits look. 

Pan from Nordic Ware provides swirls and beautiful details! 

{Swoon}

https://www.nordicware.com/store/product_detail/cinnamon-bun-pull-aparts#.VqAeSfkrLIU

Click on link  above to purchase this pan for some seriously beautiful baking!

Sweet Blueberry Biscuits

GLAZE

1 cup powder sugar

3 Tablespoons milk

1/2 teaspoon vanilla

BISCUITS

2 cups all purpose flour 

1 Tablespoon baking powder

1/2 teaspoon salt

3 Tablespoons granulated sugar

1 stick unsalted butter

2 oz cream cheese

3/4 cup buttermilk

1 cup FROZEN blueberries

~1/2 stick melted butter~

Begin by making your glaze. In a small bowl add powder sugar, milk and vanilla. Stir all 3 ingredients until powder sugar has dissolved.

Preheat oven to 500 degrees.

For the biscuits: add all the dry ingredients {flour,baking powder, salt and sugar}

 Mix well in a large bowl.

Cut in butter and cream cheese using a pastry blender or fork until pea sized

Slowly stir in your buttermilk until your dough no longer sticks to the bowl

Mix until blended well

Prepare a large area for kneading. Sprinkle some flour on a large cutting board or counter top.

Put dough on floured surface and sprinkle top of dough with a little more flour

Press the dough out to 1/2" thickness

Place frozen blueberries over dough and begin to fold dough over the blueberries. 

**I used a dough scraper for this step, as the blueberries like to roll off and its just easier to fold over when the dough is full.**

Knead it a few times and keep it about 1" thick. 

(Unless you are using a pan like mine from Nordic Ware)

Cut biscuits using a biscuit cutter or cup

Place biscuits in a well coated pan using Bakers Joy or some sort of non-stick cooking spray.

Bake at 500 degrees for 10-15 minutes

When you put the biscuits in the oven, melt the 1/2 stick butter 

At 6 minutes into your bake, take biscuits out of the oven and brush the melted 1/2 stick butter over them, making sure to get the edges well.

Return to oven to finish out baking process

Once the biscuits are done, take them out of the oven and let cool on a wire rack.

If you are making these biscuits as traditional cut biscuits, after 10 minutes add the glaze.

If you are making these biscuits using the Nordic Ware pan, turn over onto pan and make sure top is baked as desired. If not, return to oven for a few more minutes (mine took about 3 more minutes)

Once cooled for 10 minutes after last bake, add your glaze.

Enjoy!!!

This recipe was adapted by  AC @ See.Try.Eat

Try it, you'll LOVE it!!