Need a cake that is perfect to serve with coffee?

Then this is the cake for you, not to heavy, not overly sweet. Cinnamon Bundt cake with White Chocolate cinnamon Glaze is perfect for cinnamon lovers and great with a cup of coffee.

Ingredients:

• 2 C. Flour
• 1/2 tsp. Baking soda
• 1 tsp. Baking Powder
• 1 tsp. Vanilla Extract
• 2/3 C. Shortening
• 2 Lrg Eggs
• 1 Tbsp. Cinnamon
• 1/4 tsp. salt
• 1 C. Sugar
• 2/3 C. Milk

Glaze:

• 1 C. Chopped white Chocolate
• 1/8 C. milk
• 1 tsp. Vanilla extract
• 1 tsp. cinnamon

Directions:

Preheat oven to 350 Degrees and grease your Bundt Pan. Mix together flour, salt, cinnamon, Baking soda, and Baking powder set aside. In a large bowl cream shortening. Add Sugar and vanilla beat until fluffy. Add eggs one at a time beating after each addition. Add the flour mixture and the milk alternating. First some of the flour mixture, then beat, then some of the milk then beat etc. Pour into pan and bake for 40-50 minutes, test for doneness.

Remove cake from pan and allow to cool. Once cooled chop white chocolate and place in a microwaveable bowl, add milk and vanilla to the bowl. Melt in the microwave about 1 minute or until completely melted. Stir in cinnamon. Pour Glaze over the top of the bundt cake. Enjoy!

I wanted my Glaze to be set before we ate, so I popped it in the freezer for about 5 minutes. This cake was very easy to make, and my two little helpers loved helping me with it. Of course who doesn’t love to help make a cake especially when you get to lick the spoon after it’s all done.

New Family Member:

This is off topic, but I wanted to make a note about it, mostly just because I wanted to include the picture I took. Sunday I was on a cleaning spree, doing the laundry, dishes, the whole house, and then I decided to mow the lawn as well. I don’t mind mowing the lawn, it is good exercise and even though sometimes the allergies get to me nothing smells better to me then a fresh cut lawn.

Anyway I am mowing the backyard, which is completely fenced. It is a weird fence, like the guy wanted a privacy fence, and then half way through decided aww hell with that I don’t need all that privacy. So half the fence is really high and then it goes lower and lower. I get the design, I just wouldn’t have done it. I digress.

I am walking the path closest to the fence with my lawn mower trying to work my way around the swings, and all of a sudden I see this creature jumping for its dear life, trying to get out of my way. At first just with a size judgement alone, and the sun in my eyes I thought it was a mouse. It wasn’t, I turned off the lawn mower and picked up a big ol toad. We live in the city mind you, and even though the park is only 3 blocks away and my neighbors have a pond I never expected to catch a toad in my back yard.

I knew my son would love to have the toad for a pet. I looked up all the information about American Toads. I think what I have is a female, she doesn’t make any sounds, and according to what I have read most females don’t. She also likes it when I stroke her back, which according to a site I was on states that females will allow that, while the males will make a chirping sound. The site explains that the males might make that chirping sound when you rub their back because they want to warn another male who might be mounting that “hello I’m a dude too get off me,” which I thought was funny.

I have a toad in my house, in my bucket that I use to wash the floor with. I don’t have a proper cage yet, and haven’t had the time or money to run out and grab all the things she might need. My son named her baby, and after finding out that she eats earth worms we have been digging in the yard to get her meals. We go outside and let her jump around in the yard. I am obsessive about washing the hands after we play with her, and cleaning her bucket daily isn’t the most joyous thing. Still it is all worth it just to see the smile on my son’s face, he has told everyone he has talked to about his new baby, and how much he loves her. Bonus for me no pet dander, and the toad doesn’t give me any kind of allergic reaction. So just like that we have a new family member.

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