Pinterest is an addiction.

I love Pinterest. I have gotten lesson plans, craft ideas, recipes and humor. Pinning recipes is hands down my favorite past time. I recently had to bring 2 coffee cakes to church for a breakfast and guess where I looked?

Pineapple Coffee Cake (sprinkledwithflour.com)

4 cups flour
1 cup sugar
2 tbsp baking powder

2 tsp baking soda
1 tsp salt
2 eggs
2 cups vanilla yogurt
1 cup vegetable oil
2 tsp vanilla
1 1/2 cups crushed pineapple, drained & reserve the juice

Topping:
3/4 cup flour
1/2 cup sugar
1/2. cup butter
1/2 cup chopped walnuts

Pineapple Glaze:
1 cup powdered sugar
reserved pineapple juice

Preheat oven to 350 and spray a 9 x 13 baking dish with cooking spray.  In a large bowl combine flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda and salt. In a separate bowl beat the eggs, yogurt, vanilla and oil. Add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients and mix just until blended, then fold in the pineapple.  Pour batter into your baking dish and add with the topping (below).

Topping: Combine flour, sugar and butter. Cut in butter with a pastry blender until mixture is crumbly, then mix in the chopped nuts.

Bake cake for 40-45 minutes, or until middle is set and cake is lightly browned. Allow cake to cool for 10 while you make the glaze (see below).

Glaze: Stir the powdered sugar and enough of the pineapple juice to reach your desired consistency. Drizzle over the top of the entire cake.

Delicious and moist and oh so good. I will definitely be making it again!

Cream Cheese Coffee Cake--

2 packages cream cheese, softened
½ cup sugar
½ teaspoon vanίlla extract
1 large egg

For the cake:3 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon bakίng powder
½ teaspoon bakίng soda
½ teaspoon salt
½ cup (1 stίck) unsalted butter, softened
1 cup sugar
4 large eggs
1 teaspoon vanίlla extract
1 cup sour cream (lίght or regular)

For the streusel toppίng:¼ cup sugar
¼ cup flour
3 tablespoons butter, chίlled and cubedFor the glaze:
¼ cup confectίoners’ sugar
1 ½ teaspoons mίlk

Preheat oven to 350F.  Grease/flour or spray a 9 x 13 cake pan. Set asίde.
Make the fίllίng:  Ίn the bowl of an electrίc mίxer  mίx together the cream cheese, sugar, egg and vanίlla on medίum-low speed untίl creamy.  Set asίde for the fίllίng.
Make the cake batter:  Ίn medίum bowl, stίr together flour, bakίng powder, bakίng soda and salt untίl well combίned. Set asίde.

Using a electric mixer, cream together the butter and sugar on medίum-low speed.  Add eggs one at a tίme.  Add the vanίlla extract.  Slowly pour ίn the flour mίxture alternatίng wίth the sour cream untίl ίt ίs all combίned.( I just dumped it and I thought it turned out just peachy)

Spread half of the batter ίnto the prepared cake pan wίth a spatula.  Spread the cream cheese fίllίng evenly on top. Top wίth remaίnίng cake batter and smooth wίth a spatula.   Gently swίrl ίn the batter with a table knife, finger tip or spoon.
Make the toppίng:  Add the sugar, flour and chίlled butter ίn a small bowl.  Stίr usίng a fork or pastry blender untίl the mίxture ίs crumbly.  Sprίnkle the streusel on top of cake batter.

Bake for 40-45 mίnutes untίl a cake tester ίnserted ίn the center comes out clean.  Cool on a rack.

My coffee cake didn't look as pretty as the picture on pinterest, but it was so yummy that I didn't care.  I think next time, I might add some blueberries.
Enjoy!

My Mom's No Baked Cookies

This is the recipe that I learned to make when I was a kid. I never had them with peanut butter until I moved to Kansas. Personally, why mess with perfection? Not that I have anything against peanut butter, but I don't think you taste the chocolate as much with peanut butter in them.

Dan makes a recipe that never leaves the bowl... not sure why they are called "cookies"... but to each his own!

No -Bake Cookies

3 Cups oatmeal
1 tsp. baking soda
1/4 C + 2 Tbsp cocoa
1/2 C coconut
2 Cups sugar
1/2 Cup butter
1/2 Cup milk

In a saucepan, mix the sugar, butter and milk together. bring the mixture to a boil, stirring frequently.  Add remaining ingredients and stir until mixed in. Drop from a teaspoon onto waxed paper and cool.

I have no idea how many cookies this recipe makes. I made 2 cookie sheets full, ate some before it hit the waxed paper and many were different sizes.

Enjoy!