Brown Sugar Cinnamon Coffee Cake

Hello! I'm back with a recipe and a new blog design. The blog design is brand new - my sister Suriyah and I just did it today!  The recipe? It's not brand new, but revised from over a year ago.
So, today I have a nice coffee cake (although my family doesn't eat it with coffee). My sister says the nuts "make it".

A sweet cinnamon nut cake . . . whenever I make it, it's usually devoured overnight.

Brown Sugar Cinnamon Coffee Cake
Adapted from Southern Living, December 2006
Gluten-free, Dairy-free, Corn-free

2 cups rice flour
2 cups brown sugar
3/4 cup lard
1 cup milk or water
1 egg
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 tablespoon granulated sugar
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1 cup walnuts or pecans, chopped

1. Stir together flour and brown sugar in a large bowl. Combine 3/4 cup lard into the flour mixture until crumbly (I find it easiest to wash up and dig in with 2 hands). Press 2 3/4 cups crumb mixture evenly on the bottom of a greased 9x13 inch pan.

2. Stir together milk, vinegar, egg, and soda; add to remaining crumb mixture, stirring just until dry ingredients are moistened. Pour over crumb crust in pan. Stir together granulated sugar and cinnamon; sprinkle cinnamon mixture and pecans evenly over the batter in the pan.

3. Bake at 350F for 25 to 30 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted into the center comes out clean.


~ Hanunyah

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31 for 21: Pumpkin Spice Latte

Oatmeal cookies and Lindt chocolates are good combinations to a nice latte ;). 

Pumpkin spice latte, perfect for coffee drinkers in autumn! Keep this syrup handy for a quick warm drink.

Pumpkin Spice Latte (Gluten-free, Corn-free)
Original recipe from 

1 cup water

1 cup brown sugar

3 Tbsp. pumpkin puree

2 tsp. pumpkin pie spice

Add all ingredients in saucepan on stove and heat to almost boiling. 

Lower heat slightly. Stir well to dissolve sugar and blend, cook for 5 minutes. Do not boil. If you boil the sugar and the water, you will be on your way to making candy. Watch carefully and stir frequently. We're talking 5 minutes here so don't walk away and burn your sugar!

Let cool, store in fridge.

When ready to use, just add a couple tablespoons to warm coffee and add milk or creamer - all to taste.

~ Hanunyah

31 for 21 is a blog challenge to raise Down Syndrome awareness 1 blog at a time. The challenge is to blog everyday the whole month of October (31 days) to raise awareness for Down Syndrome (aka Trisomy 21). This is the 6th Annual 31 for 21 Challenge.