Currently baking from Great Coffee Cakes, Sticky Buns, Muffins & More by Carole Walter
What does one do when the intended last recipe from this book fails miserably and there’s a pile of overripe bananas sitting on the counter? Try one last recipe that hopefully includes a lot of bananas!
This basic cake starts out by creaming [...]

Currently baking from Great Coffee Cakes, Sticky Buns, Muffins & More by Carole Walter
You know how when you make a recipe and it doesn’t turn out right and you can’t figure out if you did something wrong or if it is the recipe’s fault? Well, that’s what’s going on here. I’m pretty sure I followed the [...]

Currently baking from Great Coffee Cakes, Sticky Buns, Muffins & More by Carole Walter
I’m not sure what to classify these as. Are they cookies? Mini cakes? The lazy person’s croissants? Whatever you want to call them, they are fantastic! Warm from the oven, they are soft and pillowy and full of cinnamony goodness. The walnuts [...]

Currently baking from Great Coffee Cakes, Sticky Buns, Muffins & More by Carole Walter
My first try at Walter’s yeasted simple sweet dough didn’t go well (remember that blueberry pizza?), but I felt like I should give it another go since I wasn’t sure why it didn’t work before. So I whipped up another batch and [...]

Currently baking from Great Coffee Cakes, Sticky Buns, Muffins & More by Carole Walter.
I’ve tried this recipe twice. The first time was while vacationing with my family. I made these sweet biscuits one morning for breakfast, and before I could even blink, the entire pan was gone. The only evidence left were the sad little [...]

Currently baking from Great Coffee Cakes, Sticky Buns, Muffins & More by Carole Walter.
Sorry for the pictures. I made this cake while vacationing with my family, and I was eager to cut into it, so the picture taking took a backseat.
I really, really wanted to like this recipe. It is unique and lends itself to [...]

Currently baking from Great Coffee Cakes, Sticky Buns, Muffins & More by Carole Walter.
My next cookbook is going to have to be a diet cookbook. Or a cookbook of vegetables only. Ugh. Two bites of this cake pretty much sent me over the edge. It is rich, heavy and very, very chocolatey. Don’t even try [...]

Currently baking from Great Coffee Cakes, Sticky Buns, Muffins & More by Carole Walter.
Peanut butter. Bananas. Chocolate chips. What’s not to like? Even without the bacon, Elvis would be inhaling these. I almost did, except I had already inhaled a batch of the banana oatmeal muffins that I had baked earlier in the day. Needless [...]

Currently baking from Great Coffee Cakes, Sticky Buns, Muffins & More by Carole Walter.
These were good. Not spectacular, but darn tasty. The cake was moist and tender, but I would have liked more of a pineapple flavor. The coconut streusel is the standout here. It added just the right crunch and kept the cake from [...]

Currently baking from Great Coffee Cakes, Sticky Buns, Muffins & More by Carole Walter.
I liked the idea of these muffins. I didn’t really like the muffins themselves, but I think that’s because I underbaked them slightly and they were pretty wet in the middle.
The recipe is pretty straight forward. The only step I had problems [...]