Cinnamon Bun Cake

I decided to take over the blog today. It's me, Sue.

Jo has done about a bazillion blogs so I thought I better do one.

Jo introduced me to Pinterest a while ago and ever since I have been addicted. I found this delicious recipe there. Well, I have found a million delicious recipes there. This was just one of the first ones I have actually made.

The original recipe can be found HERE at the Six Sister's Stuff blog. (Very cool blog, by the way.)

If you haven't checked Pinterest out, you should. It's very cool.

Cinnamon Bun cake

Ingredients

3 cups flour
1/4 tsp salt
1 cup sugar
4 tsp baking powder
1 1/2 cup milk
2 eggs
2 tsp vanilla
4 Tbsp butter, melted
2 sticks (1 cup) butter, softened
1 cup brown sugar
2 T flour
1 T cinnamon
2/3 cups nuts

Cream Cheese Frosting

8 oz cream cheese, softened

1/4 cup butter, softened

1 cup icing sugar

1 tsp vanilla

Directions

With an electric mixer; mix flour, sugar, salt, baking powder, milk, eggs, and vanilla. Once combined well, slowly stir in 4 T melted butter. Pour batter into a greased 9x13" baking pan. (I made it into 2 - 8X8 pans)

In a large bowl, mix the 2 sticks of softened butter, brown sugar, flour, cinnamon, and nuts until well combined.

Drop evenly over cake batter by the tablespoon and use a knife to marble/swirl through the cake. (This is kind of tricky. Just do the best you can.)

Bake at 350 degrees for 25-30 minutes or until toothpick comes out nearly clean from center.

Beat cream cheese and butter until smooth. Beat in icing sugar and vanilla. Spread on cake while still a bit warm. This makes it all melty and gooey and deliciously addicting. Of course, you could wait until it was room temp as well, but why would you want to do that?

I am glad I made it in 2 pans instead of just one. I was able to give one away as a gift. If I had kept it I would have eaten it all. It really is that tasty!

Oh, yeah, while this is baking...the smell is amazing! I guarantee you will be standing by the stove wishing this to cook faster so you can eat it.