When I got home, after driving in entirely too much snow yesterday, I knew I would need to bake. I had a horrible realization that I might be out of butter. Luckily, I found one stick. When you need to bake and you only have one lonely stick of Cabot butter, you should obviously Google, “Dessert with one stick of butter.” I was able to find a recipe on King Arthur Flour. As someone who doesn’t like chocolate that much, I’m always a big fan of desserts with cinnamon as the main flavor.
These are the suggested ingredients from King Arthur:
Cake
1/2 cup (1 stick) butter or margarine
1 cup sugar
2 eggs
2 cups King Arthur Unbleached All-Purpose Flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 cup sour cream or yogurt (I used reduced fat)Topping
1/2 cup sugar
2 teaspoons cinnamon
2 teaspoons vanilla
1/2 cup chopped walnuts (optional)
Process:
- I made several changes. I used half brown sugar and half white. I also added a teaspoon or so of vanilla to the batter while creaming the eggs, butter, and sugar. For the topping, I ditched the nuts and again mixed half brown and half white sugar. (We liked things mixed around here, obviously!)
- The process is simple cream the sugar, butter, and eggs. In a separate bowl, mix the dry ingredients. Alternate adding the flour mixture and the sour cream until well blended.
- Pour half of the batter in a 9×9 pan cover with half of the topping, repeat. Bake at 350.
- While the recipe says this should take 25 to 30 minutes, I had to leave mine in for about 45 minutes. I didn’t think it would ever finish baking. While it was baking, I whisked up 3 tablespoons of cream cheese, a few tablespoons of powdered sugar, and a bit of vanilla.
This tasted just like sweet, fluffy cinnamon rolls, which was perfect after our very savory dinner.
It was so good, we had coffee cake again for breakfast. What good is a snow day if you can’t eat dessert for breakfast?
