Celebrating Spring With a Pinterest Contest & Coffee Cake {Recipe}

Spring is here, filled with warm, sunny days and the desire to relax and slow down a bit. For me, there are few ways of relaxing more enjoyable than enjoying a cup of good coffee and a big slice of delicious coffee crumb cake on the front porch. Coffee cake is one of my favorite types of cake, and my version of this delicious recipe adds a bit of cinnamon and nutmeg to it for a uniquely delicious flavor (check out my Cinnamon Coffee Cake Recipe at the end of this post).

McCormick is a company that offers a variety of products to spice up your cooking and baking, including your Spring time and Easter baking recipes. They launched a new page on Pinterest featuring incredible recipes like the sugar cookies and lemon cheesecake bars pictured below. McCormick.com is also hosting a Spring Look Book featuring amazing spring flavor recipes accompanied by dazzling, mouth-watering pictures, ready to be pinned or added to your own Look Book on their site- a personalized digital scrapbook that you can fill with recipes of your choice.

Enter To Win One Of 25 Spring Baking Package Prizes

McCormick is giving baking and cooking enthusiasts the opportunity to win one of 25 Spring inspired baking packages! To enter, create a McCormick Pinspiration board featuring the McCormick recipes you’d love to try, as well as a photo of something you’ve made. Pinners also have the opportunity to have their original photo featured on McCormick.com. Click on the photo below for the official rules page:

And here is my own Cinnamon Coffee Cake Recipe, using McCormick products (they also offer food coloring, pure lemon extract, and many other spices):

Penelope’s Cinnamon Coffee Cake Recipe

Ingredients

1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
3/4 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup butter, cut into small pieces
2 teaspoons McCormick Ground Cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon McCormick Ground Nutmeg
2 teaspoon baking soda
1 pinch salt
1/2 cup buttermilk
1 egg, beaten
1 teaspoon McCormick Pure Vanilla Extract

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
2. Put flour and sugar in a bowl, and mix butter pieces in with a fork until mixture is the consistency of coarse crumbs. Put half cup of mixture on the side for topping.
3. Add in remaining ingredients in order, stirring while with each addition: cinnamon, nutmeg, baking soda, salt, buttermilk, egg, vanilla extract.
4. Pour batter into greased bundt pan and add topping on top.
5. Bake for 20 minutes, then let cool before serving. Enjoy!

Happy Baking!

I participated in a campaign on behalf of Mom Central Consulting for McCormick. I received product samples and a promotional item to thank me for participating.