I woke up early this morning so that I could make a treat for my family…Coffee Cake!  I decided to take pictures along the way so I could share them with my readers.

Soooo…let’s get started, shall we?    

First, I had to set the oven for 350° …

While the oven warmed up,

I sprayed pan with cooking spray …

Once I got all the dry ingredients together,  

I had to whisk ‘em in with an egg and some water…

Now that it was all mixed up properly,

I spread half of the mixture into the bottom of the baking dish…

 

Once there was a fairly level layer of batter

in the bottom of the baking dish,

I grabbed a measuring cup and filled it

with a mixture of cinnamon, sugar,

and other such numminess….

At this point, I sprinkled a lovely layer

of said mixture over the entire pan of batter.

Now that I’d done that,

I had to create different little globs of batter

on top of the cinnamon and sugar concoction…

Once the globs of dough had been made,

it was time to sprinkle more of the

cinnamon and sugar stuff over the top…

As you’ve probably picked up on by now,
there’s pretty much a layering effect going on here.    

Anyway….here’s what it looked like after I’d loaded up the glob layer with the cinnamon/sugar tastiness…

At this point, I grabbed a butter knife and swirled it around a bit…mixing the dough up a bit.           

I really got that knife in there and mixed it around a bit….

I was going for pretty much a marble looking effect…

So, now that all the layering is done,

it’s time to slide the Coffee Cake into the ol’ oven!

Can’t forget to set the timer!

And now that it’s in the oven,  

it’s time to make myself a big ol’ tumbler of coffee!

Can’t forget the Hazelnut creamer.

It makes the world go ’round! 

After a while had gone by and I’d already ingested a tumbler of coffee,

I figured I’d better check on the Coffee Cake

to see how well it was coming along…

Not only was it looking totally flippin’ killer,

but it was smelling soooo good, too! 

I was chillaxing and doing my best to be patient

when I finally heard the timer go off!          

YAY! Time to take the tasty treat out of the oven!!!

Ooooh boy! I can’t begin to tell you

how good that thing smelled!        

Here it is cooling on a rack!

Lastly, here is a picture of the sacred

Coffee Cake with a piece cut out of it…

I can’t express how good this thing was!  

My daughter and I sat on our stools next to the counter

and slowly ate our hunks of cake.        

Haven’t you heard yet? Today is the best day known to man: National Coffee Day!

I am ashamed and embarrassed to admit that had it not been for Eric Anderson’s post over on Pownce I wouldn’t even have known that this glorious holiday was upon us!

(By the way; Eric Anderson has some really awesome Pownceage…and his site is packed full of awesome stuff. He really seems to be an super cool guy with an amazing amount of killer links to things all over the Net. [He’s a designer, too! w00t!] I highly recommend reading what he’s got to say!)

Anyway, back to this glorious holiday! Coffee….ahhh, yes. The beverage of life. As anyone who really knows me knows, I am an avid coffee drinker. I average 2-3 pots of coffee per day. I can’t even begin to express how much I love the stuff. There have been times when I’ve weened myself down and done without it for a week or two here and there…but I always go back to it. Absence from it only makes my heart grow fonder!

Please share your coffee-lovin’ stories with me! I am dying to know if you are as excited over this holiday as I am. I would love to know how you’re going to celebrate…if at all. And even if you’re not, that’s perfectly fine, too. I totally understand that not everyone is an addict like I am. I do know, though, that my BFF Sarah, and my other amazing friend, Casey, will be appreciating this day in some way, shape or form. Even if they go through with their normal routines, I have absolutely no doubts that knowing it’s National Coffee Day will mean something big to both of them! Birds of a feather really do flock together!    

In closing, I would just like to say once more…
HAPPY NATIONAL COFFEE DAY!!!

• I can’t believe I didn’t post anything on my blog yesterday. What the heck?

• I realized earlier today that there are only 98 days until Christmas.     Can you believe that?!

• Speaking of holidays, I cannot wait ’til Halloween! It’s always been my favorite holiday…although the older I get, the more I like Christmas and my birthday.

• Lonnie and I always dress up on Halloween. The past two Halloweens, I have been a nun and Lonnie’s been a priest. While I enjoy those costumes, I really want to mix it up this year. I’m not sure what exactly I want to do, but something fun…really fun!

• I’m listening to some Ministry. I’m not in the mood for them very often, but today seemed like a good day for it.

• I’m going to make Chicken Stir Fry w/ Sticky Rice for dinner tonight.

• Meh…Lonnie and I just had a ‘lover’s quarrel’. I flippin’ hate that!

• My son wiped out on his bike again yesterday. I asked him what the heck happened and he told me that he was riding around a corner with no hands and bit the pavement.     The last time he wiped out was because he was riding without hands. Will he ever learn?

• Lonnie just apologized to me for being unreasonable.  

• I’m going to be doing the Lemonade Diet soon. I’m sick of feeling all bogged down, so I want to cleanse my body. I’m hoping that with the detoxifying effects of the diet, I will have more energy and feel less lethargic. It’s worked for Lonnie in the past, so I’m optimistic that it’ll work for me, too.

• I need to mow the grass in my back yard sometime today. I’ve been putting it off because my broken toe hurts MUCH worse when I cram it into a shoe.

• I like Hulu much more than YouTube.

• It’s pretty gloomy today. That’s happening more and more…Fall is on the way.  

• I just had to yell at my cat, Araya. She was trying to get into my package of Biscotti!

• Last month I made $7.50 just from people clicking my sidebar ads. Isn’t that cool? I want to save up all the earnings from my blog and my shop and use it towards getting to see Sarah in person. It might take me a few years, but darn it…I’m determined!

• Speaking of friends, where the heck is Matthew today? He hasn’t been here at all…I hope everything is okay!

• My son failed to put the garbage out on the curb last night, so the garbage men didn’t pick it up.     I’m kinda torqued off about it. I reminded him to do it and everything!

• I just drank the last of the coffee. I’m contemplating whether or not I should brew another pot. I might go with water instead. My coffee intake lately has been unreal!

• Oil of Olay pwns.

• I need to get some work done now. I’ll be posting another entry in a little while. I saw something on TV last night that I really want to talk about.   

While I was looking around on the Net, I came across an item that made me audibly go, “Awwwww!”  I honestly can’t even remember what brought me to the page I saw this thing on, but darn it…it’s just so cute.

It’s a coffee cup ring! I guess it could be a tea cup, too…but I prefer coffee, so that’s what I’m going with.  DOH! I just realized it’s sold out.      Oh noooooo!

This is where I found it. Maybe if we (you and me) stalk the page enough, we’ll catch it right after they get a new shipment or something! I refuse to give up.