Pumpkin Spiced Latte Cake – Leels Cooks

I wasn’t sure what to call this coffee cake. It’s like a traditional streusel topped cake, but with actual coffee elements along with a spiced pumpkin cake.  It’s got pumpkin, spices, a brown sugar coffee swirl and a coffee crumble topping. It has to be a pumpkin spice latte, right? I combined a few different recipes into this one and I think it works really well. The cake is subtly spiced and moist while the coffee elements are a bit stronger and deliver some crunch.   What you need: Swirl: 2 tbsp unsalted butter, softened 2 1/2 tsp instant coffee … Read more

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Cake / Cooks / Latte / Leels / Pumpkin / Spiced

Carrot Cake Blondies – Leels Cooks

I had the craziest craving for carrot cake (probably from all of these blogs posting Easter recipes) so I decided to throw together one for myself. Not a cake-cake because I didn’t want to fuss with layers and have that much. Just a denser blondie type batter with all the flavouring and carrots required. Feel free to add raisins or swap the pecans for walnuts. What you need: 1 cup unsalted butter, melted 1 1/2 cups light brown sugar 1 egg + 1 egg yolk 1 cup finely grated carrot 1 1/2 cups all purpose flour 1 tsp baking powder … Read more

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Blondies / Cake / Carrot / Cooks / Leels