It’s not too sweet (although I do think you could dial back the sugar in the topping if you wanted to), and the cornmeal is enough to make it interesting, and a little crunchy – but not so much as to make it cornbread-y. I should add that it’s not only easy, but delicious as well. I was able to whip it up in about 15 minutes, and the 35-50 minutes it needs in the oven is plenty of time to shower, or set your Easter table, or in my case, go back to bed and squeeze your eyes shut and pray that somehow last night was just a bad dream. If you’re in need of new ideas for your Easter brunch menu next week, I would really recommend that you try this. I happen to think the presence of blueberries automatically puts this in the breakfast category, so I’m sticking with coffee cake. I’m calling it a coffee cake, although Deb calls it a “butter cake” (whatever that means), and even goes so far as to include it in her cake chapter rather than her breakfast chapter, so that there’s no mistake. While I haven’t yet had the chance to make as many of the recipes as I’d like, those that I have tried (pancetta-white bean-chard pot pies and pumpkin-gingersnap-cheesecake tart, to name a couple of my favorites) have been pretty amazing. And after coffee and two mimosas, I even started to feel just a tiny bit better.Īs you may already know from earlier posts, Smitten Kitchen is one of my very favorite food blogs, and when Deb released her cookbook last fall I was SO excited to see what it held in store for me. Isn’t that one of the best ideas you’ve ever heard? While it was pretty hard for me to get out of bed yesterday morning (since after the Zags’ loss on Saturday night my will to live was close to non-existent), once I did this coffee cake was easy to put together and bring to brunch (along with my heavy heart). She prices the baskets out, asks us all how many we’d like to donate, orders all of the baskets and goodies, and then hosts a brunch where we can all get together and put the baskets together over gossip and mimosas. For the past few years, my friend Tracy has volunteered through the YWCA to put together a number of Easter baskets for children in the foster care system.
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