Anyway, I baked my own cake today after spending last week trying to decide what I wanted. I wanted something new, not cookies and
not something I would not have to frost. I decided on this Peanut Butter Pound Cake. You may recall my previous pound cake attempt, of which most ended up in the trash. This cake however was pound cake perfection. I am not sure if I should thank Bake or Break or the handy new KitchenAid my mom got me for Christmas. Either way, it turned out just like a pound cake should, soft in the middle with a crispy crust. I did make a few additions and substitutions. The recipe calls for 5 eggs and what do you know, I only had 4. I debated the risk of only using 4 eggs and then remembered that I had a recipe for a vegan flax seed egg substitute. Super easy way to cut back on eggs in your baked goods, 1 tbls. ground flax seed and 2-3 tbls. of water heat about 1 minute in the microwave or simmer 5 minutes stove top until you have the consistency of an egg, yields the equivalent of 1 egg. So I mixed that up and subbed it in for 1 egg. Instead of buying peanut butter/chocolate swirl morsels, which I have never even seen, I used what I had, about 1/2 bag each of chocolate and peanut butter chips. After I poured the batter into the pan I decided a little Nutella would be a nice addition so I mixed in what I had in the pantry. It wasn't much since I had been snacking on it all last week, about 1/4 cup. I baked it for 1 hour and 20 minutes and served it ice cream after my birthday dinner...and I may have snuck another piece while John was walking the dog, but hey, it's my birthday!
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Hope you had a great day! Love the new design.
Stacy, Mike was out of town on my birthday, the flowers he sent didn't arrive (he insisted on showing me the cc receipt to prove he was charged & then received a credit) and he didn't instruct the kids to make me cards. So, I came very close to making my own 40th! birthday cake for my pitty party. I went out with the girls who were fabulous and he redeemed himself the next night, but Hannah kept asking where were my balloons. yeah, I wondered the same thing. Love John's comment about aging in the driver's license picture. I loved my first CT license picture, but had to get a new one this year. More salt in the wound....Take care.
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