An Apple A Day....or two or three or four

My husband's favorite fruit (and possibly food) is an apple. And when I was in a baking mood I searched for an apple recipe and I found this apple bread. I did not use the topping ingredients listed, but instead used a little brown sugar, flour and apple slices. I ended up baking the bread for 55 minutes. The smell of this bread baking took away my apprehension of trying a new recipe and there was no apprehension necessary. My husband devoured this bread. It was dense and hardy yet moist. We enjoyed it for breakfast with warm maple syrup.

Get Your Motor Running

Happy Birthday Pam!

I made Apple Streusel Muffins for a co-workers birthday. She loves Harleys so I went with a "chrome" theme. I found the recipe for the muffins here. I decided to omit the walnuts in the streusel topping because you never know everyones taste and I didn't want to be "that guy" who's treats go untouched. Not a worry there. I snagged my container when I saw there was only one left. I wanted one for myself.

The muffins were very good. Very moist and tender just as described in the recipe. To go along with the muffins I made cinnamon butter by combining a stick of butter, 1/2 cup of powdered sugar and a tablespoon of cinnamon. It was wonderful! People were eating it without the muffin, I also made vanilla cream cheese by combining softened cream cheese, powdered sugar and vanilla. It was gone before the muffins were. Sorry, didn't measure out this one but it was getting late and all of my measuring utensils were dirty.

Rise and Shine

People in our office are always trying to find a reason to bring food. I don't even know what was the occasion for our last "treat day" but we were supposed to bring in a breakfast item. Of course I could not follow the rules exactly. I decided to bring mocha cake pops.

Coffee = breakfast =done deal.

Mocha Cake Pops

devils food cake

chocolate frosting

instant coffee granules

chocolate coating

coffee flavored chocolate curls

coffee stirrers