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.
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!!!!
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
