“Busy Day Cake” is our (almost weekly) go-to recipe. We’ve enjoyed experimenting and
coming up with these “spiced up” options:
You can see the original recipe on this earlier post: “Busy Day Cake”
Cinnamon
Coffee Cake:
Before
baking, sprinkle the batter with a mixture of ½ cup sugar mixed with 1 tsp
cinnamon. Or add 1 Tbsp butter to the cinnamon/sugar mixture (working it in
with a fork) and pour only half of the batter into the baking pan, sprinkle
with half of the cinnamon/sugar mixture, then spoon remaining batter on top,
and sprinkle with the remaining cinnamon/sugar mixture. Then bake as
directed in original recipe.
Dark
Chocolate Cupcakes:
For dark chocolate cupcakes (or cake),
add ¼ cup baking cocoa and substitute ½ cup of strong, black coffee plus ¼ cup
milk (for ¾ cup milk in the original recipe). Then bake as directed in original recipe.
These were an early b-day gift for DJ’s teacher!
