Diana- Get My Coffee Cake Muffin!

Oh Boy!
Can you hear it?
My Hero:
Where's the coffee cake?

What?  Huh?  

Anyway..

I pot off to the kitchen

to whip up these beauties.
They make a nice little
Valentine's Day breakfast...
~one month from today, girls!

It has a coffee cake texture

but it is in muffin form.

It is easy as pie...

wonder who invented THAT saying?

Pie is NOT easy if you have to

do the whole thing from scratch..

but I digress....

Look at this, ladies!

That is Gramma Hazel's ruby glass

married with Grandmother Clara's silver tray.

Kinda funny being as they couldn't stand

each other in real life.

I like messing with them in the after life.

I suppose they have separate

"coffee klatches" in Heaven~
just like they did here in real life.

Anyway...here we go.

You need a greased giant muffin tin 

OR 6 greased custard cups.

You are going to dump the flour,

baking POWDER & salt into a bowl.

Cut the Criso in until it is uniformly 

crumbled to the size of small peas.

Add the sour cream and milk and

egg.  I added a tsp of vanilla, too.

Do you have one of these little

spring beaters?  This belonged to gramma.

It is the handiest little thing ever.

You just pounce it up and down and 

it beats eggs perfectly...

or makes foam on drinks.

Divvy up the batter and portion

one half of it out into the greased tin (or cups)

Spoon a spoonful to topping in each one.

Cover with the rest of the batter.

Then smooth it over a bit.

Add the rest of the topping on top of that.

Bake-make sure they are done all the way

through- A tester should come out clean.

Then- plop them out of the tin/cup and

eat them warm...with butter if you like.

They look like this when they are done.

By the by, I don't put the nuts in them 

because MyHero is already nuts

doesn't like nuts.

MyHero likes his with milk.

Here  you are, DARLING!

See, I can be nice when I want to be nice.

A little LOVE goes a long way around here.

That sweet Valentine was a gift 

from a friend last year.

Now...above is the "pretty"

Here's what the kitchen 

really looked like in the midst of 

preparation.  

So, I am NOT PERFECT
like y'all thought I was....
HA!

Recipe follows:

The recipe is from:   Lamb's Inn Bed & Breakfast 

               Richland Center, WI.

Coffee Cake Muffins              Preheat oven to 350º                    

Muffins:                                               Topping:

1 ½ cups flour                                        ¼ cup brown sugar

½ cup sugar                                            2 T sugar

2 teaspoons baking powder                    1 teaspoon cinnamon

½ teaspoon salt                                      ¼ cup chopped nuts 

1/4 cup shortening                                  

1 egg, well beaten

½ cup milk

1 cup sour cream or plain yogurt

(I added 1 tsp vanilla)

In large bowl-mix flour, sugar, baking powder and salt.  Cut in shortening until it resembles coarse crumbs. Add beaten egg, milk and sour cream. Stir just until moistened.  Do not beat.

In small bowl: combine topping ingredients.

Spoon half of batter into 6 greased and floured muffin tins 

(or custard cups). Sprinkle batter with half

of topping.  Spoon remaining batter on top and sprinkle with rest of topping.

Bake 20-25 minutes  or until wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean.