Jeanie is a Teenager!

Happy Birthday Jean! Hope you enjoy your day. Hard to believe my "baby" is 13!

Blueberry Pecan Coffee Cake

I was at a garage sale several years ago and a lady was selling a cookbook she published, called Berried Treasures, A Blueberry Raspberry Cookbook. This recipe is from that book. I brought it to a shower recently and decided to add a glaze just to pretty it up. The recipe calls for lemon peel and as I didn't have a lemon I just added about 1 teaspoon or so of lemon juice.

BLUEBERRY PECAN COFFEE CAKE

Topping:

¼ cup brown sugar

2 Tablespoons flour

½ teaspoon cinnamon

3 tablespoons butter

¼ cup finely chopped pecans

Cake:

1 ½ cups flour

2 teaspoons baking powder

½ teaspoon baking soda

¼ teaspoon salt

¼ teaspoon nutmeg

¾ cup sugar

2 eggs

1 ½ teaspoon grated lemon peel

2 tablespoons butter, melted

1 cup sour cream

2/3 cup blueberries

Preheat oven to 350˚. Butter a spring form pan. In a small bowl combine the brown sugar, flour and cinnamon. Cut in the butter until the mixture resembles coarse meal. Stir in the pecans. Set aside.

In a medium bowl, combine together the flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt and nutmeg. In a large bowl, whisk together the sugar, eggs, lemon peel and butter until light and pale, about 1 minute. Using a wooden spoon, stir in the flour mixture in 2 batches alternately with the sour cream, beginning and ending with the sour cream. Fold in blueberries. Spoon into prepared pan. Sprinkle with topping. Bake 25-35 minutes. Cool in pan on wire rack about 15 minutes. Transfer to a plate and remove pan sides.

Optional glaze:

1 ½ cups powdered sugar

1 ½ tablespoons milk

½ teaspoon vanilla

Mix and drizzle on cake.

Special Olympics Poinsettia Sale

The Special Olympics Poinsettia sale is going on right now. I need all orders in by November 10th. I will be picking them up on November 19th. These are beautiful poinsettias and wreaths. This is what is available:

Red, White or Pink Poinsettias:
4 inch- $8.00
6 inch- $12.00
7.5 inch - $20.00
10 inch $40.00.

Wreaths with Red or Burgundy Bow:
24 inch - $26.00
36 inch $42.00
60 inch - $100.00

Garland: 25 feet - $30.00

There is also flavored coffee:

Colombian (decaf)
Dark Capital Blend
French Vanilla
Nutcracker Sweet (a blend of Brown Sugar, Caramel and Nut)
12 oz. for $10.00

Please let me know if you are interested in purchasing any of the above. Thanks!

Trick or Treat

Phew.....done for another year. Not my favorite holiday.

Confo Halloween Party

Danny was so excited for his first confirmation get together! He kept saying, "I can't believe I'm in Confirmation!" and just giggled. When I picked him up after the party he was all excited and said, "I won! I won!" I asked him, "You mean nobody guessed you?" He said "No! I just pretended I wasn't there. I heard someone say my name but I just shook my head. I was tricking them. I was pretending I wasn't at the party!" I tried to tell him that he cheated. I can't convince him. He just thought he was pretty clever by "tricking" everyone!

Gift Exchange

Thanks to pinterest.com we all came up with a fairly easy gift. We made gifts for the person above us. Everyone but three, got their idea from pinterest! The person holding the gift received it from the person standing with them. We had a great time in Madison. It was a blast and of course as you reflect back on it, it just gets even funner and funner! I find myself smiling as I remember the weekend. (Like if you want to know how to get free meals, ask Sara!) The two babies with us were almost perfect! The weather couldn't have been nicer either. Shopping was awesome........many thrift stores for the thrifters and a nice big mall for the non-thrifters.