It’s confession time over here, guys. Here’s two things you need to know about me: I’m a gal who loves celebrating everything in a big and fun way and I have a very big weakness for baked goods. So you can see that getting on to see the daily and monthly food holidays to do “research” for my articles can really be a problem for me! You see the sweet tooth part of my brain hones in on any delicious sweets that need to be celebrated and I can think of nothing other than celebrating, for example, chocolate chip cookie month until chocolate chip cookies have been made. It doesn’t help that my 10 year-old daughter is a little baking champion and loves trying new recipes so it’s better for me to just not ever look and then I don’t know that it’s National Peanut Butter Lover’s month.

Nevertheless, admittedly I did give in and look at the April list, my friends, and let me tell you--there are some good foods to be celebrated. Today, I’m picking the one that went straight to the top of my list of recipes to try. This one is for my fellow cinnamon/sugar lovers out there. This is for the person that is reading this right now that happens to be eating a bowl of Cinnamon Toast Crunch right this very moment. Let’s talk about celebrating coffee cake, shall we? And in the best way possible……a delicious recipe with cream cheese. streusel topping and a nice, drizzly icing on top. And it’s really easy to boot! What’s not to love?

What Exactly Is Coffee Cake

First, let’s define coffee cake because it means different things to different people. And does it have coffee in it or is it something you eat with coffee? Well, that depends on where you’re from. You see, the British take their version of coffee cake quite seriously and infuse coffee into two sponge cake layers, with coffee-infused frosting between cake layers. Contemporary American coffee cake, on the other hand, is more of a cake you’d eat while drinking coffee--usually a single layered cake containing a combination of nuts, cinnamon, a crumbly topping and a nice sugary glaze on top.

The recipe I want to share with you today that my daughter made and we loved comes from one of my favorite baking blogs, LilLuna.com with a delicious cream cheese coffee cake with a lovely drizzly icing on top. This is the perfect recipe for any breakfast or brunch for guests, a party or shower, or simply a classic “brinner”, or breakfast for dinner. It can of course be eaten as a dessert as well. It is so moist and easy to make. I really hope you enjoy this recipe as much as we did!

Do you have the will power and strength to resist baked goods when they are offered to you? I am so weak when it comes to this. My husband has delicious donuts and bagels and the like offered to him almost daily as his job and he says no virtually every time. I don’t know how he has the strength!



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