Cherry & Peach Coffee Cake w/ Crumb Topping

I love this recipe because it’s so easy and versatile. You can change the entire cake with just switching out the pie filling of your choice. I made 2 cakes with half peach and half cherry for more variation.  I made this ahead the night before my Friday work meeting and it turned out better than I ever envisioned.  My husband even helped and loved the recipe, which you know that’s a huge win for me! Remember that pie filling from a month ago? I used it here!



INGREDIENTS:

• 2 cups all purpose flour
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1/2 cup butter, melted
• 1/2 cup milk
• 3/4 cup sugar (if you prefer less sugar use 1/2 cup)
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 2 eggs, slightly beaten
• 1 can cherry pie filling or flavor of your choice ( I used store bought ½ can cherry filling and homemade peach pie filling )

DIRECTIONS

1.      Preheat oven to 325 degrees.

2.        Grease a 9×13 baking pan with butter.

3.       Place the flour, sugar, baking powder, salt and melted butter in a large mixing bowl and stir together with a fork until crumbly.

4.       Take 1/2 cup of the crumbs out of the bowl and set aside.

5.       In a small bowl whisk the slightly beaten eggs and milk together, add milk mixture to the large bowl of crumbs and stir until incorporated.  (There will be small lumps in the batter.)

6.       Pour the batter into your prepared 9×13 inch baking pan.

7.        Spread the cherry pie filling over the cake. ( I spread my cherry filling on one side of the cake and peach of the other. )

8.        Sprinkle the reserved crumb topping over the pie filling.

9.       Bake at 325 degrees for 40 to 45 minutes. Check the cake at 35 minutes.

10.    Remove from oven, place on a cooling rack.

Freezable Breakfast Burritos!

Waymon gets up really early to go to work. So breakfast on the go is perfect for him. He can microwave this and eat it on the way to work. I made a weeks worth so that I can change up the ingredients for him. I'm not a burrito- rollin queen but I made these so it's not impossible! His tummy is happy and I'm not worried that my husband is starving to death in the morning. Everyone is happy!


Ingredients:

• 1/2 pkg of bacon, diced
• 1/2 pkg of precooked ham, diced
• 3 eggs 
• 1 large potato, diced
• 6 tortillas 
• 6 slices of cheese ( you can use shredded, he just likes this cheese better)

Directions: 

1. Heat your skillet to a medium- high heat.
2. Spray some canola oil onto the skillet.
3. Dice up your bacon, potatoes and ham. 
4. Brown up your potatoes - these will take the longest. Place browned potatoes into a large bowl 
5. Brown diced ham and place in large bowl with potatoes 
6. Cook bacon and drain. After draining place in bowl with other ingredients. 
7. Spray more canola oil onto skillet and scramble the eggs. Place eggs into bowl. 
8. Let mixture chill for about 30 minutes. 
9. Lay out tortillas and place cheese on bottom. 
10. Take 2/3 cup of mixture and place on top of cheese. 
11. Roll up burrito 
12. Repeat 4x  
13. Place all of the burritos in a freezer safe container/ freezer bag.
14. Reheating frozen burrito- warm frozen burrito for 2 minutes :) 

Banana Dark Chocolate Chip Pancakes

Today's breakfast was delicious! It was fast and easy. Semi-homemade recipes are beginning to be so much fun :) I made these to surprise Waymon for breakfast. He didn't leave anything on his plate, so I think I did an okay job ;)

Ingredients :
-1 banana
-1 cup of ready made pancake mix (mine is from Target)
-2/3 cup of water
- cinnamon (use as much or as little as you'd like)
-dark chocolate chips (use as many of as little as you want)
-canola oil spray

Directions:
-Preheat pan under medium-high heat
-Mash banana with a fork in a medium bowl
-Sprinkle in a dash of cinnamon
-Add in ready made pancake mix and water
-Fold in mixture together
-Add in chocolate chips. Do not over mix.
-Spray pan with canola oil and pour in batter
-Flip pancake over when pancake starts to bubble around the edges