Late Night Mommy Time

What do you do after the kids are asleep? If you’re like me, you do a little something for yourself. I love to spend my evenings catching up on favorite shows with E, (via hulu, I love hulu!) watching a movie, crocheting something wonderful, finally eating dinner, playing tennis (or more realistically Star Wars) with E on the Wii or on a good day - blogging. Tonight the little ones were all exhausted. Ben and Liam both have had a stomach bug and Donnelly just hasn’t been herself for the past few days. After a nice warm bath and a few stories, all three kids were out! Even Ben who tends to find every reason in the book to get up and come out of his room. So tonight I had a little more time than usual, I decided to bake something. Coffee cake and boy does it look good! I wish I had pictures. I don’t. I do have the recipe!

Buttermilk Coffee Cake

2 ½ cups flour

1 ½ cups packed brown sugar

½ tsp salt

2/3 cup butter

2 tsp baking powder

½ tsp baking soda

½ tsp nutmeg

½ tsp cinnamon

2 eggs beaten

1 1/3 cups buttermilk or sour milk

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease the bottom and sides of a 13x9 pan.

In a large bowl combine flour, brown sugar, and salt. Cut in butter until mixture looks like coarse crumbs. Set aside ½ cup for topping. Stir in baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, and nutmeg to remaining mixture.

In a medium bowl, combine buttermilk and eggs. Combine well and pour entire mixture into flour mixture. Combine until moist but don’t over mix. Spoon into prepared pan and sprinkle ½ cup flour mixture over top. I added a little cinnamon to this, you can add nuts too but my kids don’t like textures to mix so I left them out.

Bake at 350 for 35-40 minutes. Let stand for a few minutes, then consume entire pan before your husband finds out you made it. You don’t HAVE to do that last step but you can if you want to…

I hope you enjoy your alone time just as much as I do.