Cinnamon Chip Danish- Addicting!

I'm making this tomorrow with a few adjustments.  I'll let ya know how it comes out.  It is absolutely yummy.  One of our family favorites.  I'm going to try and make it with my soaked bread dough. 
HERE is a link to the original recipe.  A greatly missed friend of ours who moved away made it for me when Marlee was born.  If you ever read this- I miss you Jo!

Okay, so I made it with the 1/2 of the soaked wheat bread recipe.  Not quite as good but still delicious and better for you.  Now if I could just get back to the Amish Country in Lancaster and get the all natural cinnamon chips :)

Here are my picts from today-

Paleo Coconut Cake Recipe

Just out of the oven

With icing and a candle

Manny loved blowing out the candle

Morgan's birthday is a few days away-a true leap year baby February 29, 2000- and we did a trial on this Coconut Cake recipe and it was so yummy.  I cut the recipe in half to try it and I wish I made the whole thing.  The girls loved it too.

I copied it from a cook book my friend brought down Friday and I can't remember the name-I think its Make it Paleo: Over 200 Grain Free Recipies For Any Occasion by Bill Staley- but I will give them credit for it when I find out.  Recipe below is not halved but the full one.

Coconut Cake-

3/4 cup of coconut flour, sifted
1 tsp. salt
1 tsp. baking soda
10 eggs
1 tbsp pure vanilla extract
1 cup pure maple syrup-not pancake syrup
1 cup melted coconut oil
1 cup shredded unsweetened coconut

Sift together first three ingredients
Mix-eggs.vanilla, maple syrup, and melted coconut oil
Add dry to wet and blend till smooth then stir in shredded coconut

Pour in 2 greased 9 inch pans

Bake at 325 for 35 mins. or till tests done

I iced mine with a frosting I made of cream cheese, butter, vanilla, and powdered sugar.  I wanted to try and make powdered sugar out of some maple sugar I have but am just too darn tired with this cold to try it today :(

Sour Cream Blueberry Bunt Cake

 

 

 

Here's the recipe from Taste of Home-

Ingredients

• 3/4 cup butter, softened
• 1-1/2 cups sugar
• 4 eggs
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 3 cups all-purpose flour
• 1-1/2 teaspoons baking powder
• 3/4 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1 cup (8 ounces) sour cream
• FILLING:
• 1/4 cup packed brown sugar
• 1 tablespoon all-purpose flour
• 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 2 cups fresh or frozen blueberries
• GLAZE:
• 1 cup confectioners' sugar
• 2 to 3 tablespoons 2% milk

Directions

• In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat in vanilla. Combine the flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt; add to creamed mixture alternately with sour cream, beating well after each addition.
• Spoon a third of the batter into a greased and floured 10-in. tube pan. Combine brown sugar, flour and cinnamon; sprinkle half over batter. Top with half of the berries. Repeat layers. Top with remaining batter.
• Bake at 350° for 55-65 minutes or until a toothpick inserted near the center comes out clean. Cool for 10 minutes before removing from pan to a wire rack to cool completely. Combine glaze ingredients; drizzle over warm coffee cake. Yield: 10-12 servings.
• I can't even tell you how wonderful this cake was..... 
• Other than using organic ingredients I didn't change the recipe

Homemade Raspberry Cheesecake Ice Cream

Wow this went fast, I didn't even get a good picture before it was gone!
I didn't measure any ingredients as usual but here's the list-
Fresh Cream-skimmed of my raw milk
Raw sugar
Vanilla
Fresh raspberry syrup
When it's at ice cream stage add in 1 slice or 2 of cubed frozen cheese cake and just blend in to keep it in chunks
I had mine with candied walnuts on top that I made a few hours earlier. It was awesome!

Pumpkin Cookies- Yummy!

These are some of the best cookies and they are versatile.
I have added choc. chips, nuts and baked them in bar form when I was short on time.

Here it goes-

Preheat oven to 350.
I like to use parchment paper and I use either a cookie sheet or stonewear.

Cream together-

1 cup of butter, margarine or I like to use 1 stick of both- I use Smart Balance for the margarine.

1 cup sugar- I use raw sugar

then blend in -

1 egg

1 tsp. of vanilla

1 cup of pumpkin

sift in bowl-

2 cups plus 2 tsps of unbleached flour

and 1 tsp. each of-
baking soda, baking powder and cinnimon

and 1/2 tsp of salt

blend wet with dry and add chips or nuts if you like.

bake

The cookies pictured I made today and I tried something new. I made a nice icing for on top. I'm not one for measurement but I'll give ya an estimate

1/2 stick of butter softened
about 2 tablespoons of pure maple syrup
scant cup of powdered sugar?

mix all

cool cookies and put a dollop on top.

Fall is coming!

Cooler weather, the leaves turning and me turning these-





Into this-

Oh do I love fall.

I'm going to go cut this right now cause the children have been following me around for hours asking if its cool enough to eat yet.

Mmmmm, Blackberry Cobbler

This is sooo yummy.

I had a coupon for Border's lastweek for 40% off of 1 book and since my birthday was coming and I love cookbooks I went for The Pioneer Woman Cooks by Ree Drummond. It has great pictures and recipes.

I halved this one and baked it in my cast iron skillet.

This is the complete recipe- not in 1/2 but its so simple to increase or decrease the size of this one.

Preheat oven 350- bake about an hour.

Ingredients-

1 stick of melted butter

1 1/4 cups of sugar plus 2 Tlbs. for spinkling

1 cup of self-rising flour

1 cup of milk

2 cups of blackberries- or any berry

Just melt the butter in the micto and wisk 1 cup of sugar, flour and milk together then wisk the butter in. Put in grease dish and drop in the rinsed and dryed berries. Sprinkle with 1/4 cup sugar now and then 2 Tlbs. again just about 10 mins before you take it out of the oven.

So good, so simple.