Just Cooking stuff

It was Father's Day on Sunday and I called my Dad. I usually go over there for coffee on Wednesday's, but this Wednesday I'm going on a FART (Fabric Acquisition Road Trip) to Avonport. So I made arrangements to visit Mom and Dad today. And I decided that I ought to make a nice dessert or something, and take that with me.

I knew I had a recipe in one of my cookbooks for a Cinnamon Coffee Cake, but when I found it, I didn't have all the ingredients that it called for. So I tried an internet search. And I found a recipe that would do.

When I write out a recipe, I write the ingredients down in the order that they appear in the recipe - evidently the writer of the original recipe wrote the ingredient list in random order! AND they assume that the cook is going to actually READ the recipe.

Well. Not me. I saw the first few dry ingredients and put them in the bowl. When I got down to the wet ingredients, I figured I'd better get the oven turned on... and see what size cooking pan I needed to get out.

In one bowl, read the recipe, to my horrified eyes, mix part of the first two ingredients, the 5th ingredient, 7th ingredient and last ingredient.... Ooops.

So I hastily scooped out part of the dry ingredients, mixed in the 5th and 7th ingredient, and put that in the bottom of the pan.

The rest of the dry ingredients were still in a bowl, to which I confidently added an egg. No wait, there was a layer before that. I cut the cream cheese up and layered it very carefully on the crumbs from the first bowl. Then I added the blueberries. THEN I read the recipe again.

The cream cheese is supposed to be mixed WITH stuff and then the blueberries go on top of that. Oops!

I abandoned all hope at this point - this recipe was going to be a big flop. It was now time for me to have left - and things were still RAW - so I mixed the last few ingredients in with the rest of the stuff, and carefully dumped it in on top of the berries.

Reading the recipe again, it told me to carefully sprinkle the crumbs on TOP - WHAT?! The thing they had me make first was the topping???? My cake was sort of upside down and ALL wrong. I stuck plastic wrap over the whole thing and headed off to Mom and Dad's. I emptied Mom's oven of the cookie sheet she stores in there, turned it on to preheat and enjoyed a visit, culminated with a piece of Jane's Blueberry Coffee Cake...

So all this is to say... I made up a new recipe today! It was really good! And here it is.

Jane's Blueberry Coffee Cake


Pre-heat oven to 350 degrees. Grease a 9×9 inch pan.
Mix:
1/2 c. Splenda
1 c. ground Almonds
4 T butter
1 t cinnamon
1 pinch of salt

This will be crumbly. Spread this in the bottom of the pan.

Thinly slice (just less than 1/4 of an inch) 1 block (8 oz) of Philadelphia cream cheese and lay a single layer of cheese on top of the bottom layer.

Sprinkle 2 c frozen blueberries evenly on top. Set aside.

Mix well:

2 c. ground Almonds

1/2 c. Splenda

2 eggs
1/2 c. sour cream

2 T oil (I used peanut oil, but canola oil would do just as well)

2 t vanilla

1/2 t baking soda

1 t baking powder

Pour this mixture on top of the blueberries, trying not to disarray them too much.

Bake 35 minutes at 350. Use the toothpick test for doneness. Enjoy!