Baking Bread

I love to bake, and bread is just about the best thing ever in my book. My mom told me why the other day. She was telling me that when I was small I didn't like to eat - hard to believe now- but, she was talking to the Dr. about it and he told her to put little pieces of buttered bread where I played and when I got hungry I would eat. Apparently it worked, and really, there is nothing I like better than a good piece of bread or roll with butter. Now I know why I have this love and fascination with bread.

I have tried lots and lots of recipes and I found this one and it has become a favorite of mine, because it is so easy. I do take a couple of the cups of white flour out and add my whole wheat flour that I grind at home. Delish!!

I do have a Bosch that makes bread making so much easier, but I think the KitchenAid would work just as well. I have used it for Cinnamon rolls, Cinnamon swirl bread, Rolls. Seriously really good and easy.


Make Cinnamon Swirl bread and make French toast with Butter Syrup. . . Oh My Deliciousness!! Really, go do it. . . NOW!

Coffee Cake Muffins

Living in an apartment is boring! We have moved out of the house and are waiting for the new house to be done. This morning I have cleaned and mopped the floors and it took me about 5 minutes,,,ok maybe 7. So now I have to find things to occupy my time. Today I tried a new recipe. It is yummy and one I will make again. I originally found this recipe It is a cake but I wanted muffins so I made them in a muffin pan. Here's what I did...

Mixed 1/4 cup flour, 2/3 cup,white sugar, 1 tsp. cinnamon and 1/4 cup butter together. I mixed the dry ingredients first and with my hand crumbled it with the butter...

Then in another bowl mixed together:
2 cups flour
3/4 cup sugar
2 tsp. baking powder
1/2 cup butter
.
In another bowl mix...
3/4 cup milk
1 egg
2 tsp vanilla extract

and pour into the dry ingredients.

Mix together...

Then I divided the mix into 12 muffin cups ( after spraying them with cooking spray). They turned out a little bigger than I wanted so next time I will do 18. Then put the crumble mixture over the top

Bake at 350 for about 20 minutes until they spring back when touched. Let cool, remove from pan and enjoy!

I did!!