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Cinnamon Coffee Cake

What do you do for breakfast at your house on Christmas morning? I am still trying to find a great “traditional” breakfast at our house and haven’t found one that is our favorite…yet! So this year I tried out a recipe to see if it would be our new favorite. I tried out a recipe from my friend {L} for this Cinnamon Coffee Cake. It was so yummy! The family loved it…especially my husband! So that was a good sign. But, I am still open for another {or multiple} ideas.

What breakfast traditions do you have on Christmas morning?
Thanks in advance for sharing! I love hearing the great things you are doing too!

{Only 3 more sleeps ’till Christmas!!!}

Ingredients:
2 cups flour
1 1/4 cups sugar
1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon salt
3/4 cups butter, softened
1 cup sour cream
1/4 cup milk
2 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla

Topping:

1 1/2 cups chopped pecans
1/2 cup sugar
2 teaspoons cinnamon

1. Combine the flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon and salt in a large bowl.

2. Blend flour mixture and butter until mixture resembles coarse crumbs.

3. Combine sour cream, milk, eggs and vanilla and blend to mix well.

4. Add the wet mixture to the dry ingredients.

5. Beat at medium speed with a electric mixer until smooth and fluffy.

6. Spoon half the batter into the parchment lined baking dish. Combine pecans, sugar and cinnamon; sprinkle half over batter.

7. Spread the remaining batter over topping. Sprinkle with remaining topping.

8. Bake at 350 degrees in a 9×13 pan, for 35 to 40 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean.

★Amy

December 22, 2010 · Filed under: Christmas Recipes, Christmas Traditions, Recipes Tagged with

Candy Cane Sugar Cookies

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I just made these candy cane sugar cookies for a Christmas Party earlier this week and loved how cute they turned out. They were pretty easy to make and I liked how fun and festive they were.

I saw the idea over at Martha Stewart but decided to use a different recipe as I am not a big fan of Martha’s recipes sometimes. Does anyone else feel that way? Don’t get me wrong…I LOVE Martha and her creativity, but I just personally have a hard time getting some of her recipes to turn out right. So…anyways, I used this sugar cookie recipe from Country Living.

Honestly, the cookies looked great, but they tasted just okay. So, I am tempted to make them again with a different sugar cookie recipe. The trick is to get a sugar cookie dough that is fairly stiff so that the cookies keep their nice candy cane shape and don’t flatten out [and to pop them in the fridge for 20 minutes after they are in the candy cane shape but before you bake them}. Any one have a recipe they think would fit the bill?

With the left over cookie dough, I rolled the white into a thick log and wrapped the thinner layer of red around it to make the two tone circle cookies and added a Hershey’s candy cane kiss to the top immediately after they came out of the oven. Be sure to pop the cookies into the fridge or freezer right away, or the kisses might end up looking a bit like this:

Not too pretty! Have you tried these candy cane kisses? Two words…Yum-O!

We have another Christmas party and I think I will make these from Recipe Girl…which by the way…if you haven’t seen her site, you need to check it out like now!

{image from Recipe Girl}

Don’t they look amazing??

★Amy

December 16, 2010 · Filed under: Christmas, Christmas Recipes Tagged with

Oreo Snowman Pops

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I tell ya…I am obsessed with Snowmen…so I apologize in advance for yet another snowman related post. This time I wanted to make some Snowman pops that were similar to these Reindeer Pops.

Simply take some Double Stuff Oreos (or Oreo Cakesters) and insert a popsicle or sucker stick into the frosting in the middle of the Oreo. Melt some white chocolate. I used white CandiQuik which can be found in the baking supply area of your grocery store. It melts very quickly and covers very nicely.

Then set them to dry on some wax paper. Add mini chocolate chips for the eyes and the mouth. Add a candy corn for the nose. That’s it. If needed, you can trim the edges of the chocolate with some kitchen scissors to make a nice smooth edge.

Then, since I had some leftover melted CandiQuik, I made some fun melted snowmen. Pretty much using the same process. Just pour a puddle of CandiQuik onto the wax paper and then place a dipped oreo on the puddle. Make the eyes, mouth and nose with the mini chocolate chips and a candy corn. This time you can add a scarf using a piece of licorice, some buttons (more mini chocolate chips) and some arms using a pretzel stick broken in half.