February 11, 2010

The PW Strikes Again (In a Good Way as Usual)

Last week I went to SS's house for a little crafty crap making and I offered to make a treat to share. I have many recipes that I want to make at some point but the decision to make the Perfect Pound Cake from The Pioneer Woman was easy. I also wanted to take something chocolate and that was a bit more difficult to decide on. I ended up just making Homemade Chocolate Milk Mix for the Refrigerator (also from The Pioneer Woman) because I didn't want to spend a lot of time on the second recipe. Before heading over to SS's house I had a glass of chocolate milk and decided I might have to start keeping the refrigerator stocked with the stuff from now on.

Instead of having chocolate milk we served the chocolate sauce over the cake and it was a big hit (I preferred the cake plain).

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Perfect Pound Cake
from The Pioneer Woman
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3 sticks butter
3 cups sugar
5 whole eggs
1 tsp butter flavoring
2 tsp lemon flavoring
3 cups all-purpose flour
1 cup lemon-lime soda

Preheat oven to 325. Cream butter. Add sugar, 1 cup at a time, mixing after each addition. Add eggs, 1 at a time, mixing after each addition. Add butter and lemon extracts and mix well. Add flour, 1 cup at a time, mixing well after each addition. Add soft drink, then mix together until combined. Scrape sides of bowl, then mix briefly.Pour into a greased Bundt pan and bake for 1 hour to 1 hour 10 minutes, until the cake is no longer jiggly. Remove cake from oven and invert pan until cake drops out. Slice and serve.

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Homemade Chocolate Milk Mix for the Refrigerator
from The Pioneer Woman
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1 cup heavy whipping cream
3 oz weight semi-sweet chocolate pieces
1 oz weight white chocolate pieces

Heat cream over medium-high heat until slightly boiling. Add chocolate pieces and turn off heat. Whisk slowly until chocolate is melted and mixture is very smooth. Pour into a container and keep in the fridge up to two weeks. Mix with cold or warm milk, depending on how frightful the weather outside is. Mixture, after refrigerated, will be quite thick. Just stir well in cold milk and you’ll be fine.

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