Weekend

This weekend has been good. Dave's parents came in for a nice visit. They took the girls swimming in the morning and I ran a couple of errands. I am paranoid if I get in a pool, Finley will turn back around!

I went to Hobby Lobby to buy some crafts for the girls. They had all of their vacation bible school crafts 80% off!!!! The girls had a blast making these cute crosses and hats:)














I pinned a recipe on Pinterest from (http://www.plainchicken.com/2011/10/lemon-pound-cake.html)

Lemon Pound Cake

3 cups all-purpose flour
1 Tbsp baking powder
3/4 tsp salt
3 cups sugar
1 cup unsalted butter, room temperature
1/2 cup shortening, room temperature
5 large eggs
1 cup whole milk
6 Tbsp lemon juice
1 lemon, zested

Preheat oven to 350F

Spray or butter and flour 2 loaf pans or one large Bundt pan.

Sift flour, baking powder and salt into medium bowl.  Set aside.

Using an electric mixer, cream together butter, shortening and sugar.  Add eggs one at a time, beating until well blended after each one.

Add dry ingredients in three additions to butter mixture alternately with milk, beginning and ending with flour mixture. Beat at low speed just until blended after each addition. Mix in lemon juice and zest. 

Pour batter into prepared pans.  Bake cakes until tester inserted into center comes out clean, about 55 minutes.  Cool cakes in pans for 15 minutes.  Turn cakes out onto racks and cool completely.

Apparently it is a Ritz Carlton recipe.  I made it and it was REALLY good!!!! The only problem was that I didn't grease my pan enough so it didn't flip over all pretty:)  Here is a picture of what mine looked like and what the picture looked like!


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