Berry Buckle Yummy-ness

Well, I've finally taken the plunge to a food blog. I've got a crafting blog, but didn't want to start adding all sorts of other "stuff" to it. So, here I am... Can't wait to share my cooking and baking adventures with you all. The fun starts here!

This morning was chilly and I hadn't been drinking coffee during the summer so I decided to make myself a small pot of pumpkin coffee. Oh my goodness!! It was awesomeness in a cup! I only perk my coffee... I mean, is there any other way to have it? I added the Torani syrup in with the water so it went through during brewing. If you don't perk, you can add the syrup to your coffee cup so you don't muck up the water reservoir with syrup. Once the coffee was made, this is what I did:

• 2/3 coffee
• 1/3 pumpkin spice soy milk
• big splash pumpkin spice creamer
• another splash 1/2 & 1/2 creamer

After sipping my totally scrumptious coffee, I thought it would be a wonderful day to make a buckle. Part of the wonderfulness is that we're going to the kids house for a chili dinner tonight... and the daughter (in-law) is pregnant... and she *loves* everything dessert right now... you get my meaning... :-) So. What to make, what to make... Buckle is so easy and I had frozen berries in the freezer. I almost there. My recipe is adapted from Ree Drummond's recipe in her cookbook. By the way, this cookbook **rocks**!! I love just about everything in it! But I digress... 

Berry Buckle

• 1 C self-rising flour
• 1 1/3 C sugars - mixture of erythritol, xylitol, regular sugar
• 1 stick butter (1/4 lb)
• 2 tsp vanilla
• 1 tsp almond
• 1 tsp Vietnamese cinnamon
• 2 cups fresh or frozen berries
• 4 T sugar (regular)

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
2. Butter your dish; melt remaining butter on very low in microwave or stove.
3. Mix together flour and sugar, add in melted butter and blend mixture well with whisk.
4. Add in vanilla, almond, and cinnamon; mix well.
5. Pour mixture into shallow baking dish.
6. Sprinkle berries over mixture. Take 2 T sugar and sprinkle on top of berries.
7. Dish now ready to go into oven for 1 hour.
8. Take out of oven and sprinkle remaining 2 T sugar on buckle and put back in over for another 10 minutes.
9. Check that buckle is not wiggly and if so, bake another 5 minutes. Keep doing this until it's done.
10. And voila! Enjoy this yummy recipe!

Hope you enjoyed my recipe. Don't know if I like the layout or not, but it'll be something I'll be playing with til I get it right!