Coffee Cakes and Sweet Rolls

Orange spiced monkey bread is the perfect ooey gooey citrusy sweet morning treat! Soft and fluffy biscuit pieces are rolled in orange zest, cinnamon, ground cloves and sugar before being doused in a homemade orange syrup and baked into a golden brown syrupy pull-apart treat!  Growing up my Grandmother always made us cups of orange spiced tea in the winter when we came in from playing outside. There’s just something about the combination of oranges, cinnamon, and cloves that is…

Raspberry coffee cake has tender vanilla cake surrounding juicy fresh raspberries and is topped with a bright lemon glaze. No mixer required and ready in about 45 minutes. I know I just made Raspberry White Chocolate Shortbread Bars not that long ago, but raspberries were on sale the other day and I just couldn’t pass them up. $1.50/pkg is crazy cheap for around here. My kids love them. (They were really mad to hear that I gave away all of…

This blackberry monkey bread is straight over the top amazing. It’s so easy that a child could make it and so good you’ll be trying to convince your kids they don’t like blackberries so they’ll leave more for you! Think soft pull apart biscuit pieces smothered in gooey, sweet and buttery blackberry syrup, with juicy bites of blackberries hidden inside. Would you think I was a nerd if I told you that sometimes when a new recipe that I’ve been…

Part pie, part coffee cake. Elegant, easy, and incredibly versatile. These bold and bright flavored Lemon Poppy Seed Blueberry Squares are a great new flavor variation of my popular Cherry Almond Squares. Sometimes I feel like my entire life would be better, could be better, if I spent more time in books. Now, since I work at a library I don’t mean just spend more time in books, because I am literally eye high in rooms full of books every…

  Sweet raspberry filling is surrounded by moist and dense cake and topped with cream cheese glaze. These Raspberry Cream Cheese Squares are a breeze to make and make a big batch to boot. Next time you’re looking for a crowd pleasing dessert, you’ll know just what to bake. I’ve officially been a working woman for a month now. It’s weird. I feel like I can finally cash in my responsible adult card. Like when I go to my next…

The easiest. The biggest. The most delicious and giant chocolate cinnamon roll you’ve ever had. Loaded with melty chocolate, cinnamon and sugar and topped with cream cheese icing. This cinnamon roll is unlike any you’ve ever made before. That is, unless you regularly make cinnamon rolls bigger than your head, and if you do regularly make cinnamon rolls bigger than your head, email me! I want to be your new best friend. 

Part cherry pie, part coffee cake. Elegant and easy.  A time saver for when you have to feed a crowd, that’s the best way to describe these Cherry Almond Squares. Well there’s no denying that we are heading into the holiday swing. For many of us, that means lots of family gatherings, carry in dinners, holiday programs and open houses. You know, along with all your other responsibilities. It’s a busy, busy time. Now more than ever, the kitchen is…

I wish that everything was as good and as simple as this fresh peach kuchen. I tell you if it was the world would be a lot happier place. It’s like a hug on a plate. We usually go spend Memorial day weekend down at the Lake of the Ozarks with my husbands whole family. 14 kids and 8 adults. It’s a wild, wild time. However, this year we didn’t get to go down because of my daughter’s track meet.…