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Key Lime Pound Cake

The other day all I could think about was making key Lime pound cake. I took my regular butter pound cake recipe and mixed it up a bit.

With This! Ahh, The Key Lime juice!

The ingredients

 

• 1 cup Butter
• 6 whole Eggs
• 3 cups Sugar
• 3 cups Flour
• 1 pint Heavy Whipping Cream
• 1 Tablespoon Vanilla
• 2 Tablespoons Key Lime Juice

 Preheat oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C). Grease and flour one 9 or 10 inch tube pan.  

With an electric mixer, cream butter and sugar until fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time and mix well.

 
Introduce the flour, one cup at a time while adding cream a little at a time until all flour and cream is mixed in well.

 
Add the vanilla and key lime juice and blend well. Pour batter into prepared pan.

Bake at 325 degrees F (165 degrees C) for 1-1/2 hours or until center springs back from small amount of pressure. Immediately turn out on cake rack to cool

For the glaze, mix together

• 1 Cup of confectioner's sugar
• 2 1/2 Tablespoons butter
• 3 to 5 Tablespoons Heavy Cream
• 1/2 Tablespoons Key lime juice

 
Combine the confectioners’ sugar and the softened butter.  Blend well.

Adding 1 tablespoon at a time, beat in 3 or more tablespoons of heavy cream.

Add, Key lime juice and mix into the icing.

After the cake has cooled pour the glaze over the cake, trying very gard not to lick your fingers!

 

Experimenting with texture

Here I sit in my after chemo position, on the couch. Not much I can really do but watch TV and surf the internets. I usually don't feel much like being on the computer but today I am on a mission. I wanted to play around with some textures on my photos I've been having some fun! 

 
Miss H showed me how to do it the other day and I've been busy.

I am feeling pretty well after my chemo infusion yesterday. My red counts are low at 24 and my white counts are down to 1200. I am hoping the go back to normal by next week. Meanwhile I will be resting and playing around with more textures.

Hope you have a wonderful weekend!