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Apple Cinnamon Quick Bread

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Apple Cinnamon Quick Bread.

Super easy apple cinnamon quick bread. I love using the food processor to shred my apples. You get lots of apple in every bite this way. You could also use a grater or just chop the apples up.

Make sure to grease and sprinkle the pan with sugar and cinnamon before you add the batter!

        

   

 

Apple Cinnamon Quick Bread
 
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Recipe type: dessert
Serves: 1
Ingredients
  • 1½ cups flour
  • ½ cup packed brown sugar
  • ¾ teaspoon baking soda
  • ½ teaspoon salt
  • ½ teaspoon cinnamon
  • ¼ teaspoon nutmeg
  • ½ cup vegetable oil
  • 2 eggs
  • ¼ cup sour cream
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla
  • 2 cups shredded apples (I used food processor)
  • For dusting pan and topping:
  • 2 tablespoons sugar
  • ¼ teaspoon cinnamon
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 350 F. degrees. Mix the 2 T sugar and ¼ t of cinnamon together. Grease loaf pan, sprinkle half of the sugar/cinnamon in the pan and shake it around to coat the pan. Set aside the other half.
  2. In a bowl mix flour, brown sugar, baking soda, salt, cinnamon and nutmeg together. In another bowl mix oil, eggs, vanilla and sour cream together. slowly add the flour mixture to the other bowl until combined. Fold in shredded apples,
  3. Add batter to pan, sprinkle with remaining sugar/cinnamon.
  4. Bake at 350 degrees for 48-52 mins. Toothpick inserted in middle should come out clean.

 

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Chocolate Chip Coffee Cake

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I love coffee cake and I love anything with chocolate chips.  I don’t know why it’s taken me all these years to put the two together!!! YUMMMM!

My daughter asked if there was coffee in the cake, nope! This is what wikipedia had to say about it, “Coffee cake, which can also be known as gugelhupf or kuchen, evolved from other sweet items. In the 17th century, Northern/Central Europeans are thought to have come up with the idea of eating sweet cakes while having their coffee.”

My dog thought she would like some too! :)

 

Chocolate Chip Coffee Cake
 
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Recipe type: dessert
Serves: 16
Ingredients
  • ½ cup vegetable oil
  • ½ cup sugar
  • ½ cup brown sugar
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 cup sour cream
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla
  • 2¼ cups flour
  • 1½ teaspoons baking powder
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • Topping:
  • ¼ cup brown sugar
  • ¼ cup sugar
  • 1 teaspoon cinnamon
  • * 1 cup mini chocolate chips
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees, grease 9x13 pan.
  2. In large bowl mix oil, sugars, eggs, sour cream, and vanilla. In small bowl combine flour, baking powder and baking soda. Slowly stir this mixture into the large bowl. Mix until combined.
  3. Mix the topping ingredients together (NOT the chocolate chips).
  4. Add HALF the batter into the pan, the sprinkle HALF the topping mixture on top. Take remaining batter and drop by spoonfuls all over, then take the back of a spoon and spread it around. Sprinkle remaining topping all over top, then sprinkle chocolate chips on top of that.
  5. Bake 22-26 mins or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.

 

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Crumb Coffee Cake

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Crumb Coffee Cake.

Crumb style coffee cakes are one of my favorite breakfast items to make. I really love the taste and smell of cinnamon. Whenever I make this my whole house smells like butter and cinnamon, I love the aroma. This recipe makes a moist coffee cake with a buttery cinnamon crumb topping.

For this recipe you may use salted or unsalted butter. I almost always bake with salted butter so if you are not then go ahead and add 1/4 teaspoon of salt to the batter of the recipe. I baked mine in a glass Pyrex 8×8” baking pan.

Crumb Coffee Cake
 
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Ingredients
  • -For Crumb Topping-
  • 2½ Tablespoons granulated sugar
  • 2½ Tablespoons packed brown sugar
  • ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon
  • 4 tablespoon salted butter, melted
  • ¾ cups all purpose flour (may need a little more)
  • -For The Cake-
  • 1¼ cups all purpose flour
  • ½ cup granulated sugar
  • ¼ teaspoon baking soda
  • pinch of salt
  • 6 tablespoons salted butter, softened
  • 1 egg
  • 1 egg yolk
  • ⅓ cup plain (or vanilla) yogurt or buttermilk
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Instructions
  1. Make the crumb topping: combine sugars, cinnamon, melted butter, & flour; stir well. If your crumb topping is still too wet add a little more flour. You want it to be a consistency you can easily crumble between your fingers. Set aside.
  2. Preheat oven to 325. Grease an 8x8" baking dish.
  3. Using an electric mixer mix flour, sugar, salt, & baking soda together. Add butter & mix. Mixture will become crumbly looking & a little dry. Add egg, egg yolk, yogurt/buttermilk, & vanilla. Beat until light & fluffy.
  4. Pour mixture into greased baking pan using a rubber spatula to smooth it out.
  5. Add crumb topping by using your fingers to break apart the crumbs & sprinkle them over the batter. (Don't press them into the batter)
  6. Bake for 30-35 minutes, until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.
  7. Let cool for 30 minutes

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Fiji Honey Cake

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Fiji Honey Cake.

I had never heard of this until I was watching a Hallmark movie and they were eating it in the movie lol. I looked up a few recipes for it and decided to try it. My daughter said it tasted like banana bread without the bananas. It’s great on it’s own, but amazing with brown sugar and cinnamon cream cheese spread!

I tried to find out a little more info on the Fiji Honey Cake. I looked for history or anything about it and could only find recipes, so let me know if you have heard anything else about it.

Fiji Honey Cake
 
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Recipe type: dessert
Serves: 8
Ingredients
  • ¼ cups sugar
  • ¼ cup brown sugar
  • ½ cup sour cream
  • ½ cup honey
  • 1 egg
  • 1 tablespoon vegetable oil
  • ¼ teaspoon pumpin pie spice
  • ½ teaspoon cinnamon
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla
  • 1¼ cups flour
  • ½ teaspoon baking soda
  • 2 tablespoons sliced almonds (optional)
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease loaf pan.
  2. In large bowl combine sugars, sour cream, honey, egg, oil, spices and vanilla. Add in the flour and baking soda mix until combined.
  3. Pour batter into pan and sprinkle with almonds.
  4. Bake for 40-45 mins or until toothpick comes out clean. Let cool.

 

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Cinnamon Swirl Sour Cream Pound Cake

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Cinnamon Swirl Sour Cream Pound Cake.


I took my favorite recipe for Sour Cream Pound Cake and added cinnamon & sugar to it. The end result reminds me of a moist coffee cake. This would be good to serve at breakfast.

If you don’t like cinnamon you can skip adding the cinnamon & sugar mix and just make a vanilla pound cake instead. It tastes really good sliced with strawberries on top. We use it to make strawberry shortbread in the summer with fresh strawberries.

You will need a loaf pan to make the pound cake. Pyrex makes my favorite clear glass 1.5 quart loaf pan.

Cinnamon Swirl Sour Cream Pound Cake
 
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Ingredients
  • ½ cup (1 stick) salted butter
  • ½ cup brown sugar, packed
  • ¼ cup sugar
  • 1 egg
  • ½ teaspoon baking powder
  • ⅛ teaspoon baking soda
  • 1 cup all purpose flour
  • ½ cup sour cream
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla
  • -Cinnamon & Sugar Mix-
  • ¼ cup sugar
  • ½ teaspoon cinnamon
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease a loaf pan, set aside.
  2. Mix cinnamon & sugar mix together in small bowl and set aside.
  3. Cream butter & sugars together (by hand or with mixer), add in egg. Add baking powder, baking soda, half the flour & mix well. Mix in sour cream & vanilla. Add the remaining flour & mix well.
  4. Pour ½ the batter into prepared loaf pan. Sprinkle with cinnamon & sugar mix, then cover with the second ½ of the batter.
  5. Bake for 45-55 minutes, or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.
  6. Let cool in pan for 15 min. then transfer to cooling rack or plate, slice when completely cooled.

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Amish Cinnamon Baked Donuts

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Amish Cinnamon Baked Donuts


I took my recipe for Quick Amish Friendship Cinnamon Bread and turned them into baked donuts! They taste great for breakfast! You could even spread soft butter over the top like a muffin! I used my Wilton Donut Pans to make these.

I’m all about making different kinds of baked donuts. So once again for this recipe I put my Wilton donut pans to good use. If you still want to make this recipe but want to make them into muffins I have a recipe for that too: Amish Cinnamon Muffins.

    

To make these I started by using a regular spoon to spoon a little of the batter into the greased donut pans. I used the back of the spoon to smooth it down. Then I took some cinnamon & sugar mix and sprinkled it on top of the batter, then I put another layer of batter over that, sprinkled more cinnamon & sugar mix on top. For the last step I used a toothpick to swirl it around.

**To keep it simple you could just spoon the batter in, smooth it down, sprinkle the cinnamon & sugar on top & swirl it with a toothpick.

 

Yum! If you like Amish Friendship Bread I think you will like these Quick Amish Cinnamon Baked Donuts. Recipe made about 14 donuts.

Be careful to not over mix the batter, hand mix only.

Amish Cinnamon Baked Donuts
 
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Recipe type: Breakfast
Serves: 14
Ingredients
  • Batter:
  • ½ cup butter, softened
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 1 egg
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla
  • 1 cup buttermilk (or 1 cup milk plus 1 tablespoon vinegar or just use regular milk)
  • 2 cups flour
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
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  • Cinnamon/Sugar Mixture:
  • ⅓ cup sugar
  • 1 teaspoon cinnamon
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 350 F. degrees, grease 2-3 donut pans.
  2. Hand mix ingredients together, be careful to not over mix the batter. Cream butter, sugar, vanilla, and egg together. Add milk, flour, & baking soda & until combined.
  3. In a separate bowl mix ⅓ cup sugar and 1 teaspoon of cinnamon together to create the cinnamon/sugar mixture.
  4. Using a small spoon, spoon the batter into the donut pan cavities, filling ¾ of the way full. Use the back of the spoon to smooth it down.
  5. Sprinkle the cinnamon & sugar mix over the top, use a toothpick to swirl it around.
  6. Bake at 350 F. degrees for 12-15 min. or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.
  7. Let cool for a few minutes in pan then move to cooling rack.

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