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Living life as a fabulous mom, Wonderful wife, and most of the time dedicated employee.Leaves little time to worry about grammar, and spelling!!! I'm Pretty awful at it, sorry ahead of time. I'm just saying!

Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Domestic Goddess I am NOT, but Im working on it!!

Domestic Goddess I am not! Although I try, but probably not hard enough. Ive been working on it for almost 9 years, and I'm only 25% there on a good day!!!

You see I envision my life as a 50's sitcom, I wanna be June Cleaver. I know, I'm probably making you guys want to vomit as I write this, But I really do. I would love to be able to wake up every morning happy as I can be!! Make up my bed and fix the hubby Breakfast, and kiss him as he walks out the door!!! ( I totally do that anyway)  I would Love to be caught up on laundry, and to be able to do the  the grocery shopping during the day would be great, have a freshly vacuumed house, and dinner waiting on the hubby when he walks in the door, with a homemade dessert!!!! Yeah RIGHT, I know that's wishful thinking, but if I could be half of all of that it would be great!!!!


Unfortunately being a working mom, I'm lucky if I remember to brush my teeth in the morning and fix my hair. sometimes things can get a bit hectic!!

This weekend I think I may have uped my domestic Goddess status just a a smidge!!!!  I made a pound cake from scratch!!!!! OHHHH YEAH!!!!!!  So I'm going to get a little braggy for just a minute!!!!! Anyone who has ever mad a pound cake knows that there is a ton of work involved, mix, add, stir, mix add, stir and it has to be in order! I was sooo nervous. I just knew that it was going to be disastrous!!!! But Guess what!!! It wasn't, it turned out great, It looked like pound cake and tasted  like pound cake!! I cant tell you how proud of myself I was!!! GO ME, GO ME!!!!! So I think that I just upped my domestic Goddess status to 27% !!! HEHE!!! Now I'm thinking that I'm entitled to a brand new Green kitchen Aid mixer, don't you!??? Can you  tell my husband Please!!!!! I just know that If had one of those bad boys sitting on my counter, I would be whipping up cakes like crazy!!!





Here's the recipe I used, it was really really tasty! I did some research on how to make a good pound cake and several recipe's said that the key to a good one is to make sure that you use all the ingredients at room temperature!! One even said to leave them about as many as 8 hours! Recipe is from Food Network.

Ingredients

  • 1/2 pound (2 sticks) butter, plus more for pan
  • 1/2 cup vegetable shortening
  • 3 cups sugar
  • 5 eggs
  • 3 cups all-purpose flour, plus more for pan
  • 1/2 teaspoon fine salt
  • 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
  • 1 cup milk
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Directions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
With a mixer, cream butter and shortening together. Add sugar, a little at a time. Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating after each addition. Stir dry ingredients together in a bowl and add to mixer alternately with milk, starting with the flour and ending with the flour. Mix in vanilla. Pour into a greased and floured tube pan and bake for 1 to 1 1/2 hours, until a toothpick inserted in the center of the cake comes out clean.


It was super Yumm, I have less then  half left!!!! I hope your all having a great week!!! Wednesday is just around the corner!!! <3

17 comments:

  1. GO HEATHER GO!!!!!!!!!! Baking is SO SO HARD! you rock girl! <3 Can you bring over a loaf? kthx =)

    xoXOxo
    Jenn @ Peas & Crayons

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  2. You're awesome! You're not only a great mom and wife, you're a baker too! Send me a piece :) Wednesday is almost here! Are you ready for WIAW? Hope you had a great day! XOXO <3

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  3. YAY YOU!! I'm the exact same way!! I truly don't know how to get everything done...it never happens. blah

    I bet your pound cake was DELISH!! You should link this post to WIAW...it totally qualifies :)

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  4. This looks like a YUMMY recipe! Great job!

    Thanks so much for dropping by the Be-Bop-A Blog Hop! I'm a follower and I hope you'll stop by again soon! Have a great day! :)

    http://www.mommylivingthelifeofriley.com

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  5. Sounds like you did a great job! I found your blog through Wednesday Social Bzzz and am following (GFC & twitter) and subscribed to rss.
    My handle: beachbird2

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  6. Umm, YUMMY! I wish you lived in AZ so you could share;-) I saw a Facebook comment the other day about how woman should act, like "she always does the dishes, looks perfect and never complains..." and then it ended with "if you are starting to believe you are a man, repost this" I thought it was hilarious- June doesnt exist;-)

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  7. I could really relate to the June Cleaver idea. My sister's laugh because I love the home life of vacuuming, cleaning, and cooking. I can hardly wait to try your recipe. It looks really good. Thanks so much for sharing it and linking up at No Ordinary Blog Hop. I hope you will grab a button for your sidebar. Have a wonderful day! =)

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  8. Very nice pound cake! I am far from a domestic goddess. I make cakes, but not from scratch, and they always look lopsided! I'm a new follower from the Middle Matters hop!

    Nikki
    http://www.prettyopinionated.com

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  9. stoppin from the hump day hop~ momy only has two hands host... love your post on the recipe. appericate a follow back~life as a mom n wife on blogspot. thanks. cute blog by the way!

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  10. Your cake turned out great!! I love my kitchenaid mixer! Don't know what I'd do with out it! :-) Have a lovely day!

    Blessings,
    Jill

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  11. looks great! can't wait to try this recipe!

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  12. Your bundt looks fantastic! :)

    and i was just talking to my man this morning about the lime green kitchenaid..soooo awesome!! But i can't have it because i already have the boring white one :( boo

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  14. Good job on the pound cake!I always get impressed with myself when I make something new and it turns out.

    I am an aspiring domestic goddess as well.

    best,

    elena

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  15. you are a goddess.. a pound cake making goddess!!
    oh how I dream that same dream.. a stay at home wife/mama sounds perfect.
    LOVE THE KITCHEN AID.. I'm dying for one too. I ask for one all the time.

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  16. If you get the green one that would be fabulous because I am going to steal it and give you my white one:)

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