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Homemade Hostess Coffee Cakes

Happy Monday, everyone! Today marks the beginning of a week-long series of posts demonstrating how you can make homemade versions of your favorite Hostess treats. Over the course of the week I’ll provide recipes for homemade coffee cakes (today’s post!), Twinkies, Devil Dogs, SnoBalls, and…

Mini Cinnamon Rolls

Giant, ooey, gooey cinnamon rolls are on my baking Bucket List. I tried to make them once and it was a comical failure. I would love to have a go-to cinnamon roll recipe and be able to make them without a problem. Someday! Until that…

Cherry Chocolate Chip Muffins

I forgot which comedian said this, but it’s always made me laugh: A muffin is just a cupcake that we’ve for some reason decided is OK to eat in the morning. So true, right?! I love cherries – maraschino cherries, bing cherries, Cherry Garcia ice…

Blueberry Potato Cake

When I was home over winter break, my Dad gave me his copy of Valley Potato Grower magazine (yes, there is such a thing — and yes, you receive such a publication if you work in the food biz!). He bookmarked this recipe and said…

Doughtnut Muffins

One of my biggest weakness in life is cinnamon sugar. Anything is exponentially improved with the addition of cinnamon sugar. I saw this recipe and it practically jumped off the page at me. Doughnut-like muffins coated in cinnamon sugar? SOLD. These taste a lot like…