coffeeeeeee!

Okay, this is a blog about....?

                           
                          Coffee.

                                                                 So that's what I'm goin' to talk about.

Or try to....

                       Because I haven't had my coffee yet this morning.



                                                                                        So if none of this makes sense...

           Now you know why.....



Take a minute as you notice that the above ^^ was all in pretty rainbow colors.
I thought that was pretty awesome....buuuut, it's 6:55am and I STILL haven't got my coffee yet sooo....what do I know?

Anyways, back to coffee.

It all started Saturday when I was hanging out with my friend Benny.
It was our friendiversary so we decided, since we both adore coffee...to make a coffee cake.

                                                    Not just any coffee cake though......

A *literal* coffee cake.


                                                                         Like...a CAKE made out of COFFEE.

                 Hence the term..."COFFEE cake"

So we found a recipe....And I'm gonna give it to you....I donno who's recipe it is but I don't think they'd mind me sharing it with you...so here ya go:

Coffee Cake

2 C flour

2 C sugar

¼ tsp salt

2 sticks of butter

4 heaping GIGANTIC tablespoons of instant coffeeee

½ cup of buttermilk

2 eggs

1 tsp baking soda

2 tsp vanilla

Mix sugar, flour and salt. Set aside. Melt 2 sticks of butter in a pot over medium-low heat. While it’s melting add 3 tbs (HEAPING I TELL YOU! HEAPING!!!!!!!!!) of instant coffee to 1 cup boiling water. Set aside.

In a separate bowl add buttermilk, eggs, baking soda, and vanilla. Mix until well combined. Add coffee to melted butter, allow to boil for about 10 sec then take off heat and pour into flour mixture. Stir gently the purpose is not to mix perfectly but to cool down the liquid before adding egg mixture.

Add egg mixture and FOLD mixing gently.

Cook at 350 degrees for about 20 minutes (ours took longer)

Frosting:

1 & ½ sticks of butter

4 cups powdered sugar

3-7 TBS instant coffee

¼ tsp salt

4 tbs heavy cream

Whip in mixer until fluffy. Me and Benny added a few extra cups of sugar and instant coffee ;)

Kay, so there you go. This cake is AMAZING with hot coffee and coffee ice cream Although I will say, that the cake is SUPER SUPER SUPER rich and I was hungover (from all the coffee goodness) for two days.

The NEXT coffee experience I will tell you about.....is.....this:

Okay so Saturday, Benny gave me a *Starbucks* (Pause for dramatic effect) gift card. So Monday I went to *Starbucks*. I got a Peppermint Mocha Frappuchino and it was

THE BEST COFFEE RELATED THING I'VE EVER HAD IN MY WHOLE ENTIRE LIFE.

 And I swear I'm still living off the energy of that thing.

                                           
                                                                          I need the recipe.

So if you can find it...


                                                                             I will love you forever.

Sike.


Point is, it was amazing. Actually, there probably aren't any legitimate words worthy of describing it's amazingness. So I'm just gonna say amazing.

And now I'm gonna go get some coffee and go to work. Making wreaths. Blahhh....