Meal Planning with Connie

Peanut Butter Coffee Cake I made this Peanut Butter Coffee Cake for Sunday School this morning, and we all thought it was really good! This recipe is from the our cookbook giveaway, Better Homes and Gardens New Baking Book . I doubled the ingredients and baked it in a 9x13 inch pan. I also just chopped some Hershey’s Milk Chocolate chips in the food processor in place of the miniature semisweet chocolate pieces. Besides great baking tips, great photos and recipes, this cookbook contains interesting tidbits of information. Here’s the recipe I used today: The Peanut’s Progress For more than a century before this country was colonized, African cooks were using peanuts (or groundnuts) in many ways in their creative cooking: as a vegetable fresh from the garden, as the base for a creamy soup, and in a chicken dish served with a peanut sauce. Southerners (and eventually the whole country) adopted the peanut as a staple in its myriad forms: raw, baked, roasted, or boiled; in pea