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*sending warm vibes to all my friends dealing with the blizzard* Guess it'd be mean to tell y'all that it's currently 59oF and sunny with a brilliantly blue sky, wouldn't it? :P
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Will and I finished the Christmas shopping today, although we're going to have to go back to Sam's either tonight or tomorrow to get wrapping paper and batteries. One of these evenings, I'm going to separate out the stocking stuff into ziplock bags so all I'll have to do on Christmas Eve is dump everything into the stockings. And put all the presents out. And hopefully not wrap anything, because we really need to get that done before Thursday night, because if we wait, we're going to have to stay up until, like, 2 in the morning to get everything wrapped. Not something I look forward to, because Christmas Day is the only day the entire year that all of my kids will wake up early.
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And, because bistyboo1974 inspired me by posting a recipe that looks totally made of yum, I'm going to post the recipe for one of my standard Christmas favorites. This is my great-grandmother's recipe (modernized a bit) and it's what my grandmother and my mother used to make for Christmas breakfast. The tradition in my house when I was growing up was that we could get up and open our stockings, but we weren't allowed to go near the tree until everyone was up, showered, dressed, breakfast eaten and the dishes done. (Will was completely horrified by this, btw, but I get why my mom did it--she learned from her mom, who was tired of getting stuck in the kitchen and missing all the present-unwrapping). So we'd have this coffee cake, which we'd bake on Christmas Eve, so breakfast was quick Christmas morning. When I was older, Mom and I would bake 10 or 12 of these for the neighbors. This is one of my comfort foods, y'all. It's fairly labor intensive, but so worth it.
Sour Cream Coffee Cake
Pre-heat the oven to 350o
Grease and flour an Angel-food cake pan
Ingredients:
Batter:
3 cups all-purpose flour
1 1/2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp baking soda
1 cup butter or margarine (butter makes it better, IMO)
1 1/2 cup sugar
1/8 tsp salt
1/2 cup milk
1 cup sour cream
1 tsp vanilla
Topping (mix in a separate bowl):
3/4 cup light brown sugar
1 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp nutmeg
1 cup chopped nuts
In a small bowl, sift together the flour, baking powder, and baking soda; set aside
In a larger bowl, cream the butter and add the eggs, one at a time, mixing well with each addition. Add sugar, salt, sour cream, milk and vanilla and mix well.
Add the dry ingredients slowly to the wet mixture (about 1/2 cup to 1 cup at a time) and mix well.
Mix the topping in a small bowl.
Put about half of the batter into an angel food cake pan. Put about half of the topping on the batter; add the rest of the batter on top. Cut through the batter with a knife. Sprinkle the remaining topping over the batter.
Bake at 350 for an hour.
Let cool before removing cake from the pan.
Enjoy!
And now I'm off to get ready for our Sunday School party, where we will all laugh more than we've laughed all year. I love these people. :D
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Argh! Can someone explain to me why when I type a post in the rich text editor, it removes all of my carriage returns? It's been doing it for the past several days, and it's really, REALLY annoying. Really. *stabity-stab*
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Will and I finished the Christmas shopping today, although we're going to have to go back to Sam's either tonight or tomorrow to get wrapping paper and batteries. One of these evenings, I'm going to separate out the stocking stuff into ziplock bags so all I'll have to do on Christmas Eve is dump everything into the stockings. And put all the presents out. And hopefully not wrap anything, because we really need to get that done before Thursday night, because if we wait, we're going to have to stay up until, like, 2 in the morning to get everything wrapped. Not something I look forward to, because Christmas Day is the only day the entire year that all of my kids will wake up early.
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And, because bistyboo1974 inspired me by posting a recipe that looks totally made of yum, I'm going to post the recipe for one of my standard Christmas favorites. This is my great-grandmother's recipe (modernized a bit) and it's what my grandmother and my mother used to make for Christmas breakfast. The tradition in my house when I was growing up was that we could get up and open our stockings, but we weren't allowed to go near the tree until everyone was up, showered, dressed, breakfast eaten and the dishes done. (Will was completely horrified by this, btw, but I get why my mom did it--she learned from her mom, who was tired of getting stuck in the kitchen and missing all the present-unwrapping). So we'd have this coffee cake, which we'd bake on Christmas Eve, so breakfast was quick Christmas morning. When I was older, Mom and I would bake 10 or 12 of these for the neighbors. This is one of my comfort foods, y'all. It's fairly labor intensive, but so worth it.
Sour Cream Coffee Cake
Pre-heat the oven to 350o
Grease and flour an Angel-food cake pan
Ingredients:
Batter:
3 cups all-purpose flour
1 1/2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp baking soda
1 cup butter or margarine (butter makes it better, IMO)
1 1/2 cup sugar
1/8 tsp salt
1/2 cup milk
1 cup sour cream
1 tsp vanilla
Topping (mix in a separate bowl):
3/4 cup light brown sugar
1 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp nutmeg
1 cup chopped nuts
In a small bowl, sift together the flour, baking powder, and baking soda; set aside
In a larger bowl, cream the butter and add the eggs, one at a time, mixing well with each addition. Add sugar, salt, sour cream, milk and vanilla and mix well.
Add the dry ingredients slowly to the wet mixture (about 1/2 cup to 1 cup at a time) and mix well.
Mix the topping in a small bowl.
Put about half of the batter into an angel food cake pan. Put about half of the topping on the batter; add the rest of the batter on top. Cut through the batter with a knife. Sprinkle the remaining topping over the batter.
Bake at 350 for an hour.
Let cool before removing cake from the pan.
Enjoy!
And now I'm off to get ready for our Sunday School party, where we will all laugh more than we've laughed all year. I love these people. :D
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Argh! Can someone explain to me why when I type a post in the rich text editor, it removes all of my carriage returns? It's been doing it for the past several days, and it's really, REALLY annoying. Really. *stabity-stab*