Recipes for “Busy Day Cake” (Revisited!)

“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!