March 8, 2005
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Have you ever lost a favorite recipe?
Not by being unable to locate it in the myriad cookbooks and recipe magazines one owns, but literally losing it.
Years and years and years ago I'd cut out of either a women's magazine or the Star-Telegram a recipe for a cinnamon snack-type cake, baked in a square pan. It called for a tablespoon of cinnamon. Wouldn't be frosted...I seem to recall sprinkling sugar on the top. Used to plop a dollop of Cool Whip on top when serving it. Believe me, hot cinnamon cake with cold Cool Whip was a tasty treat indeed.
One day - also years ago - I went to my collection of cut-out recipes to make that cake.
Not there. Tore the kitchen apart, but to no avail.
It was gone.
I've searched the internet several times, but have never been able to locate it. Sometimes it seems I ought to be able to pretty well recreate it by modifying a simple vanilla snack cake, but that sort of thing's never really been my strong suit.
What I wouldn't give to lay hands on that recipe again!
Comments (5)
Sounds like the Bisquick coffee cake recipe. Did it have a crumbly topping?
Nope. I know the one you mean, and it's excellent (haven't made it in forever, and really need to do so), but the texture's quite different.
It wasn't a cowboy coffee cake, was it?
That's Jason's favorite cake. How many 6 year olds want a coffee cake for his birthday cake!?
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Yep. My grandmother had the best recipe for pumpkin bread in the world. She gave me a copy of it, which I've lost.
I once had a little kid request coffee cake for a birthday cake. I think it was Anna, but I don't remember how old she was. Somewhere around six is probably right. Mine was a from scratch sour cream, tube-pan jobbie (one of the few cakes I've ever baked from scratch!) Haven't made it in so long I forgot about it. Hmmmmmmm.
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