No Longer Updated

This blog is no longer being updated due to the fact that I no longer eat bread, pasta, rice, muffins.....or coffee cake. Having been diagnosed with diabetes, I have had to significantly cut the carbohydrates from my diet. The first to go were bread, rice, pasta, and cereal products. This blog will remain as an archive of my coffee cake recipes, but no new recipes will be forthcoming. Thank you for stopping by.

Banana Rum Coffee Cake w/Brown Sugar Topping & Rum Icing

I like bananas. I really do. So imagine my surprise when I opened up the cupboard and found a bunch of brown-spotted bananas. Lucky for my family, I know how to use up brown bananas. Why don't I keep them on the counter you ask? It's a long story. Anyway, I'm continuing with the rum theme because I need to use up the rum extract that I bought for the previous coffee cake. If you don't like rum, you can always use vanilla or maple extract. Also, I opened up my brand new fridge and realized that I had no buttermilk and no sour cream. So, I used some honey flavored Zoi Greek yogurt because that's what I had on hand. It's called "rummaging-through-the-fridge-and-the-cupboards-and-using-what-I-find" method of baking.

Rum Raisin Coffee Cake w/Browned Butter Icing

Confession time: the "rum" I used was actually rum extract. I rarely buy rum, but when I do I don't use it for baking. ☺ For the record, I buy rum during the holidays to make hot buttered rums, and ultimately, those hot buttered rums served as the inspiration for this coffee cake. Sort of. At least they inspired me to use browned butter icing. Seeing as how it's June and not rum season, I decided to buy the rum extract. If you keep real rum on hand and want to use that then I say, "Go crazy nuts!!" I'm just not sure how much real rum you would use so you'll have to experiment. That' not a bad thing. Note: I did not actually wait until the coffee cake was completely cooled before I added the icing. Consequently, the icing melted and was a little runny. I recommend that you wait for the cake to cool. If not, it's all good. It still tastes great and when you cut that first slice, the icing will run to the bottom of the pan.