After much time away from blogging, I have finally found time to sit down and give you an idea of what I have been baking. Don't worry, I haven't been slacking in the area of baking, rather I have just been too dogone busy to take/post any pictures or blogs. On a lighter or should I say fatter note, last night was a fantastic evening of eating. We started off with bar-b-que pork roast that sat in the slow cooker all day, baked corn on the cob drenched in olive oil and garlic pepper, and green beans. We finished off our fantastic night of eating with my newest experiment, a chocolate chip pound cake drenched in a vanilla sugar glaze. A couple people have been asking why I have not been posting my recipes and I though why not! Have a look and let me know how it turns out for you!Cake
-In small bowl combine: 3 cups of all purpose flour, 1 teaspoon of baking powder, and 1/2 teaspoon of salt. Set this mixture aside.
-In a different bowl, mix: 2 cups sugar, 1 cup unsalted butter, and three tablespoons vanilla. -Once this mixture has reached a creamy consistency, add 4 eggs and mix till smooth.
-Next add flour mixture and 3/4 cup milk. Be careful when adding the flour mixture as your mixer may cause floury eggy chunks batter to fly at you defenseless kitchen walls and appliances.
-Last but not least fold 12 ounces of semisweet chocolate chips into the batter
-Pour the batter into a prepared pan and set in the oven to bake at 325ish degrees. Bake the cake until it is a perfect golden brown and a knife inserted into the middle comes out clean.
Glaze
-Once the cake has been allowed to cool for a bit, prepare the glaze.
-In a pot melt 1/3 cups unsalted butter. Once butter is melted, add 2 cups powdered sugar and 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract and 4 tablespoons hot water. Once smooth, immediatly pour the glaze over the cake, as it will harden quickly. Enjoy!
Happy Baking!
~Catherine
