Wellesley Coffee Cake

Here’s a recipe for Wellesley Coffee Cake from Mary Bevilacqua. This coffee cake is delicious. After you bake it, let it cool and, if you plan to give it away, wrap it in plastic wrap and cover it with aluminum foil.

Mary started the Wellesley Cookie Exchange 30 years ago, inviting friends and neighbors to her house in December to celebrate the holidays and trade cookies and baked goods. I've included a link to an article that appeared in Yankee magazine a few years back that describes the Cookie Exchange and includes a few recipes. There's one for a Pistachio Cranberry Ice Box Cookie that I'd like to try.

Icebox cookie dough is made ahead of time and frozen or refrigerated until it's time to make the cookies. Ice box cookies are perfect for me since making the dough is enough of a baking enterprise for one day.

There's a site called WiseGEEK which has some interesting cookie information, including substitutions to make cookies "healthier".