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Easy Rhubarb Cake

Baking· Cakes· Coffee Cakes· Desserts· Easy Recipes· Fruit· Garden Fresh· Snacks· Vegetarian

Easy Rhubarb Cake is a family favorite It is rhubarb time here in the Northeast. I think everyone around us grew up eating rhubarb because it grows like a weed here. I should note that it is definitely NOT a weed. You have to plant it. But every old house in our small towns and every farm out in the country seemed to have had a nice patch of it against some corner or another. Easy Rhubarb Cake is an easy choice when we have lots of rhubarb. Rhubarb is very tart - not really edible all on ... Read More about Easy Rhubarb Cake

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Cinnamon Chocolate Chunk Coffee Cake

Baking· Cakes· Chocolate· Coffee Cakes

Cinnamon Chocolate Chunk Coffee Cake is the perfect spring treat You never know what the weather is going to be when spring rolls around. It could be nice and warm and sunny, with birds singing and daffodils blooming. Or - it could be snowing and cold the first few days of spring.  Either way, Cinnamon Chocolate Chunk Coffee Cake will make everything better.  I promise. Nothing fancy here This is a standard coffee cake recipe. Three simple elements are layered together and then baked into ... Read More about Cinnamon Chocolate Chunk Coffee Cake

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Sweet Potato Coffee Cake

Baking· Breakfast· Brunch· Cakes· Coffee Cakes· Desserts

Sweet Potato Coffee Cake is perfect for this time of year It is a little difficult to find fresh in-season food to cook with this of year.  Sweet potatoes are a great choice though.  Properly stored sweet potatoes actually taste better now than they do in the fall.  That makes this Sweet Potato Coffee Cake very seasonal, not to mention very tasty. What is coffee cake? For starters, it doesn't usually have coffee in it.  Instead, you drink coffee with it.  Coffee Cake is usually sweet, ... Read More about Sweet Potato Coffee Cake

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Pumpkin Yogurt Crunch Cake

Baking· Cakes· Coffee Cakes· Nuts· Recipes

Things have been really busy around here so far this year. Lots of visits with kids and grandkids, with more to come, lots of poring over seed catalogs and gardening books, and lots of cooking. Lately I have not felt that a lot of the recipes I've worked on have been blog-worthy. I have a certain standard in mind for what I share here, and while I have some good ideas that I am working on, not many of them have gotten to the point where they are ready for prime-time. This cake is a huge ... Read More about Pumpkin Yogurt Crunch Cake

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Banana Streusel Coffee Cake

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I actually made this a few weeks ago, after yet another family visit that left behind the remains of a bunch of bananas. Neither of us is at all fond of eating fresh bananas, particularly ones that are getting past their prime. On the other hand, such bananas are just reaching the perfect stage for baking, and we are both big fans of baked stuff with bananas. And if your grandkids happen to leave behind some nearly-overripe bananas and you don't feel like baking with them right away, did you ... Read More about Banana Streusel Coffee Cake

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Blueberry Ginger Buttermilk Cake

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A lovely late summer cake! Alas, this will be the final blueberry post for the summer of '14. Not the last blueberry thing we'll eat, for sure. We freeze blueberries to use in the wintertime. They are equally good as the fresh ones in a cake like this.  If you run across this recipe for Blueberry Ginger Buttermilk Cake later on in the year, don't hesitate to use frozen berries in it. But fresh ones are what we have today. A final picking that Larry did with his Mom the other day. Blueberry ... Read More about Blueberry Ginger Buttermilk Cake

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Strawberry Cheese Coffee Cake

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I started work on this recipe last year, and didn't get it quite where I wanted it. Then, along came cherries, and I got distracted. I came back to it this year though, because it is definitely worth getting right, and now I am very happy with this final version. Local strawberries are just now coming into season here - we will have them for about a month or so, but no longer than that. Pick-your-own strawberry places are big around here, and I think you can find them just about anywhere. ... Read More about Strawberry Cheese Coffee Cake

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Brown Butter Rhubarb Cake

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Rhubarb is definitely one of my favorite things in all the world, and this Brown Butter Rhubarb Cake is not the only reason. There are few things that are more rewarding to grow. Once established, it will continue to produce pretty much for the rest of your life. It is a big plant, but not unattractive, so it's not hard to find a spot for it, even in an urban setting. You have to give a couple years after first planting before picking very much, but after that, so long as you keep the flower ... Read More about Brown Butter Rhubarb Cake

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Rhubarb Kuchen

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It is such a luxury this year to have all the rhubarb I could want. Our oldest plants are finally 3 years old, which means we can pick from them pretty freely - yay! As my Mom reminded me on a another rhubarb post a few weeks ago, my grandmother loved rhubarb, and I can still remember the gooey sweet and tart pies that she made with it. She would give us little bits to eat raw, and even though it was so puckery-sour that it nearly turned us cross-eyed, we ate them anyway. They were a taste of ... Read More about Rhubarb Kuchen

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Blueberry Skillet Cake

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After a couple weeks of awful hot and humid weather, where no sane person entertained even the ghost of an idea that involved turning on the oven, I woke the other morning to cool, crisp air and a weather forecast that said the day would stay that way. Just what I was waiting for, as we had a container of freshly picked blueberries in the fridge, that I had been hoping would get a chance to be in this cake. I actually worked on this recipe last August, but ran out of blueberries before I had a ... Read More about Blueberry Skillet Cake

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