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Homemade Bagels in the Bread Machine

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Homemade Bagels made in a Bread Machine or with a stand mixer fitted with dough hook.

These are pretty easy to make if you have a bread machine. You could also use a kitchenaid mixer with the dough hook. They are WAY better than store bought. Make sure you boil them in the honey or they will not be good!

These make medium size bagels (smaller than store). You can make larger ones but they will take a few more minutes in the oven.

Your dough should look like this after it mixes a few minutes. If it’s too dry add water by the tablespoon until it’s right or do the same thing with flour if it’s too wet.

   


Homemade Bagels in the Bread Machine
 
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Recipe type: bread
Serves: 18
Ingredients
  • 1¼ cups warm water
  • 2¼ teaspoons rapid rise yeast
  • 4¼ cups flour
  • 3 tablespoons sugar
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 2 tablespoons oil
  • For Boiling:
  • 4 cups water
  • ¼ cup honey
Instructions
  1. Add warm water and yeast to bread machine, let sit for 2 mins. Then add all the rest of the ingredients (except the 4 C of water and the honey) and set to dough cycle.
  2. Once dough is done, put out of floured surface and preheat oven to 475 degrees. Line 3 pans with parchment or non stick sheet. Divide dough into 18 pieces. Roll them out into a log shape and press the ends together. Let them rise for 15 mins.
  3. Put 4 cups of water and the honey in small medium pan and get to a boil. Drop 2-3 dough circles into the boiling mixture for 45 seconds flipping half way, and then place on the baking pans.
  4. Bake at 475 degrees for 9-11 mins. make sure you don't over bake.

 

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Coffee Cake Muffins

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Coffee Cake Muffins.

I love cinnamon so I crave coffee cake quite often. I have a wide variety of different types of coffee and crumb cakes that I make. This recipe I am sharing with you below is one that I also use to make Coffee Cake Baked Donuts. It is a quick and easy muffin recipe that uses sour cream but you can also use yogurt as a substitute. Recipes makes about 8 muffins.


Coffee Cake Muffins
 
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Ingredients
  • -Topping-
  • ⅓ cup + 1 tablespoon all-purpose flour
  • 2½ tablespoons granulated sugar
  • 2½ tablespoons packed brown sugar
  • 1 tsp. ground cinnamon
  • 2½ tablespoons butter, melted (I used salted)
  • -Muffins-
  • 2 tbsp. butter, softened (I used salted)
  • ½ cup granulated sugar
  • 1 large egg
  • 1 cup all-purpose flour
  • ½ tsp. baking powder
  • ½ tsp. baking soda
  • pinch of salt
  • ½ cup sour cream
  • ½ tsp. vanilla extract
Instructions
  1. Make the topping first. In a small mixing bowl mix flour, sugar, brown sugar, & cinnamon together. Add melted butter & mix until dry crumb mixture forms. If it's not very crumbly add in a little extra flour.
  2. Preheat oven to 350 F. degrees. Grease muffin pans.
  3. Make the cake batter: In a mixing bowl stir butter & sugar together. Add in egg. Mix sour cream & vanilla in. In another bowl sift flour, baking powder, & baking soda together.
  4. Add flour mixture to the sour cream/liquid mixture & mix until smooth.
  5. Spoon into prepared muffin pans filling half full, about 2 tablespoons per muffin tin. Take the crumb topping and crumble between your fingers onto the top of each muffin.
  6. Bake for 20 minutes or until tops are starting to turn a slight golden brown and top is springy to the touch or until a toothpick inserted in center of one comes out clean.

 

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Banana Muffins with Crumb Topping

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Banana Muffins with Crumb Topping.

(Disclaimer: I was provided compensation for a link in this post. All thoughts & opinions expressed herein are my own.)

I love banana bread but honestly it takes a long time to bake which can be hard if you are not home for long periods of time. I made these banana bread muffins with a crumb topping because they are quick to bake, mine were done at the 18 minute mark. I don’t know why but I love a hint of cinnamon with banana bread/muffins so there is cinnamon in the topping and you can also add it to the batter if you are a big cinnamon fan. I always buy my cinnamon at Swanson Vitamins. I usually get the 1lb bag of organic cinnamon, it lasts me quite a while.

Recipe makes about 12-14 muffins.

I used a medium sized cookie scoop to fill the muffin tins, it scoops about 2 1/2 Tablespoons. I love it because it is less messy for me and then each muffin is approximately the same size. If you are not using salted butter then I recommend adding 1/8 teaspoon of salt to the recipe.

Banana Muffins with Crumb Topping
 
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Ingredients
  • 1½ cups all purpose flour
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1 teaspoon baking powder
  • 3 ripe mashed bananas
  • ¾ cup sugar
  • 1 large egg
  • ⅓ cup salted butter (5 Tablespoons) softened
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • -TOPPING-
  • 1 Tablespoon melted salted butter
  • ⅛ teaspoon cinnamon
  • 2 Tablespoons flour
  • ⅓ cup brown sugar packed
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 375 F. degrees. Grease or line muffin pan with muffin cups.
  2. In a large mixing bowl combine flour, baking soda, and baking powdered together.
  3. In another mixing bowl mash the ripe bananas, add sugar, egg, softened butter and vanilla together.
  4. Add banana mixture to flour mixture and gently stir together by hand until combined.
  5. Scoop about 2.5 Tablespoons of batter into each muffin cup filling it about half full.
  6. Make the crumb topping by mixing it together. Sprinkle over the tops of muffins.
  7. Bake for 17-20 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into center of one comes out clean or if the top springs back when touched.

 

 

 

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Easy Coffee Cake

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Easy Moist Coffee Cake with yogurt and sour cream.

Easy Moist Coffee Cake with yogurt and sour cream. This recipe was adapted from a recipe I first started making back in high school. This recipe is only half a recipe, it makes an 8×8″ square baking dish. So if you need to make a full recipe just double the recipe below and make in  a 9×13″ baking dish.

 

Easy Coffee Cake
 
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Recipe type: Breakfast
Serves: 9
Ingredients
  • ½ cup (1 stick) salted butter, softened
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 1 egg
  • ¼ cup sour cream
  • ¼ cup plain or vanilla yogurt
  • ¼ teaspoon vanilla
  • 1 cup all-purpose flour
  • ½ teaspoon baking powder
  • ⅛ teaspoon baking soda
  • Topping:
  • 3 Tablespoons brown sugar
  • 2 Tablespoons white sugar
  • 1 teaspoons ground cinnamon
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 350 F. degrees. Grease a 8x8 inch square baking pan & set aside.
  2. Cream together the butter & sugar in a large bowl. Add the egg, sour cream, yogurt & vanilla, and mix well.
  3. Stir in the flour, baking powder, & baking soda together and mix until well combined.
  4. Topping: In a small bowl stir the brown sugar, white sugar and cinnamon together.
  5. Pour half the batter into the greased baking pan (I use the back of a spoon to spread it out so it's all laying evenly). Using a spoon sprinkle half the topping over the batter in the pan. Pour the remaining batter into the pan, using a spoon to spread it out gently over the topping. Sprinkle remaining topping over it.
  6. Bake at 350 F. for about 30 minutes or until a wooden toothpick comes out clean after being inserted into the center. Cool a few minutes before serving.

 

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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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