Sylvia's Scenario

The nice thing about your football team's playoff game starting at 10:00 a.m. is that you can eat breakfast while watching it.  Last week, the 10:00 a.m. game caused a major  dilemma  in our day.  Today, it was nice and relaxing except we lost the game so that's a bummer.  The good thing is that I can drown my sorrows with this most delicious blueberry coffee cake.  It somehow makes a fan feel a lot better after a loss.   I was going to make regular coffee cake this morning, but I had a large 18 ounce container of blueberries that have been on sale at all the grocery stores around here so blueberry coffee cake it is.  It turned out to be one of those recipes that make it hard not to have a second piece.  And, to make it more tempting, I just happened to have two containers of frosting from Great Harvest Bakery from the last cinnamon rolls we bought.  They always give us frosting "on the side" when we buy cinnamon rolls there. ...

It's a turkey cake!  I bought this turkey-shaped cake pan a few years ago and never used it, so I thought I'd try it this year and yep, it turned out looking like a turkey!  The recipe is delicious, however.  If you want it to turn out looking lovely, use a bundt pan, which I've used in the past, and it will turn out looking like this! Serve this cake as a coffee cake or with whipped cream for a luscious dessert. We have always used it as a coffee cake for breakfast. This year, we will wake up to a turkey coffee cake for breakfast! Inside, it looks just like the one above but on the outside, it looks like, well, a turkey! Gobble, gobble! Serves 10-12 1/2 cup butter 4 eggs 2-1/2 cups flour 1 Tbsp. baking powder 1/2 tsp. salt 1-1/4 cups sugar 1-1/2 tsp. vanilla 1/4 cup buttermilk 3 cups peeled and coarsely chopped pears and/or apples 1 cup cranberries, coarsely chopped powdered sugar 1.  Let butter and eggs stand at room temperature for 3...