Happy Valley Cherry Cake

This one is in the coffee cake section.  I've been meaning to try it for a while now. However, after reading a post on the CakeMixDoctor website, I decided to substitute ricotta cheese for the cup of whole milk in the recipe.  The cake just melts in your mouth. The lemon cake mix gives it a subtle lemon flavor.  My only complaint is not enough cherries!

Maple Nut Coffee Cake - an adaptation.

 

Yesterday a co-worker quipt that I would/should be bringing in coffee cake "tomorrow" (today)  - so I did.   But since I wanted to pick up whatever supplies I would need on my way home and I did not have The Cake Mix Doctor cookbook at work with me, I went online to www.cakemixdoctor.com to see what recipes from the book they had posted that I might use.   On one of the blog posts I found the Maple Nut Coffee cake and this comment:

"My mother always told me imitation was a fine form of flattery. And now I’ve figured out an even finer form – when someone bakes your recipes and then feels comfortable enough with them to change up the ingredients to suit their own tastes."

 

It occurred to me that perhaps I am looking at this the wrong way.  Maybe someday I will finally try all the recipes in the first book (not to mention the second and third, etc....) but why not take the favorites and give them my own flare.  

 

My own flare aside, I did use the recipes as it appears on the site(http://www.cakemixdoctor.com/recipe/maple-nut-coffee-cake/) to make this morning's cake.  It is an adaptation of "Kathy's Cinnamon Breakfast Cake" from the first book - a coffee cake I have made on more than one occassion in it's orginal form and it always gets rave reviews.   The Maple Nut adaptation is not a disappointment.  I found it wonderfully delicious.   We'll just have to wait to see what others might say about it.