S'MORES CREAM CHEESE POUND CAKE

First, you'll need to make some cream cheese pound cake.  The best ever! Click here for the recipe!

After the cake is totally cooled or a day old you will cut fairly thick slices.  For each serving cut 2 slices and lay on a nonstick foil lined pan.  On one slice place 3 marshmallow halves. The other slice stays plain.  Broil both slices just until the marshmallows are nicely toasted.  Remove and immediately lay on half a Hershey bar that was room temp. (Cold chocolate won't melt as well.) Top with the other slice and dig in!

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Back from vacation with fresh orange pound cake with passion fruit icing

Hey, everyone!

After a couple of weeks on vacation I am back home, tired and immensely happy. I haven’t baked in a while but have a delicious cake recipe to share with you today, something I prepared weeks ago and that turned out really good. The passion fruit icing is completely optional: in fact, I personally liked the cake better without it.

Oh, and I’ll be answering your questions and

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4TH OF JULY MINI TRIFLES

REMEMBER MY DELICIOUS CREAM CHEESE POUND CAKE?  WELL, HERE IT IS ONCE AGAIN!  WHAT A PERFECT WAY TO USE UP SOME OF THIS CAKE-AS IF YOU NEEDED ANOTHER WAY TO EAT SUCH A SCRUMPTIOUS CAKE!!!

1. CUT THE POUND CAKE INTO SMALL PIECES.
2. SPREAD STRAWBERRY JAM ON EACH SLICE.  CLICK HERE TO MAKE MY HOMEMADE STRAWBERRY JAM!!!!
3.  LAYER THE POUND CAKE & JAM WITH WHIPPED CREAM.  USE COOL WHIP OR HOMEMADE!

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CREAM CHEESE POUND CAKE TOPPED WITH HOMEMADE JAM & BERRIES

STRAWBERRY JAM RECIPE CLICK HERE

INGREDIENTS:
Cream Cheese Pound Cake

1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese 1 1/2 cups butter 3 cups white sugar

6 eggs 3 cups all-purpose flour 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Directions:

1.	Preheat oven to 325 degrees F grease and flour a 10 inch tube pan.
2.	In a large bowl, cream butter and cream cheese until smooth. Add sugar gradually and beat until fluffy.
3.	Add eggs two at a time, beating well with each addition. Add the flour all at once and mix in. Add vanilla.
4.	Pour into a 10 inch tube pan. Bake at 325 degrees F for 1 hour and 20 minutes. (I BAKE MINE FOR 1 HOUR AND 20 MINS AND THEN LOOSELY COVER WITH FOIL FOR AN ADDITIONAL 2O MINS.-check yours at 1 hr. 20 and see because ovens do vary.) recipe adapted from allrecipes

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HANDS DOWN-BEST EVER-MOST INCREDIBLE CREAM CHEESE POUND CAKE!!!!!

 HEADING INTO THE OVEN!!!!

 COOLING TIME!

 

BEST EVER POUND CAKE-HANDS DOWN!!!!


INGREDIENTS:
Cream Cheese Pound Cake

1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese 1 1/2 cups butter 3 cups white sugar

6 eggs 3 cups all-purpose flour 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Directions:

1.	Preheat oven to 325 degrees F grease and flour a 10 inch tube pan. (I spray mine with coconut oil spray!)
2.	In a large bowl, cream butter and cream cheese until smooth. Add sugar gradually and beat until fluffy.
3.	Add eggs two at a time, beating well with each addition. Add the flour all at once and mix in. Add vanilla.
4.	Pour into a 10 inch tube pan. Bake at 325 degrees F for 1 hour and 20 minutes (I baked mine 1 hour 20 mins and then loosely covered with foil for an additional 20 to be sure it was cooked through-this timing was perfect for me-any less and it would have been undercooked.  Judge yours as it bakes as oven can vary.) COOL COMPLETELY BEFORE CUTTING! recipe adapted from allrecipes

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Pistachio polenta pound cake

People usually ask me for advice in baking and cooking and one thing I always tell them is to read the entire recipe before actually making it: it is important to know all the details prior to preparation. That is something I learned the hard way: I can’t tell you how many times I’d already be making something, looking forward to eating it only to read “refrigerate overnight” in the middle of

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Orange cardamom pound cake with candied orange peel + a question

I made this cake months ago but waited until now to publish it to avoid bothering you with my too-much-candied-orange-peel drama. The recipe was a simple orange cake – which is something I love – spiced with a bit of cardamom – which is something I’ve learned to love – and I just added the bits of candied peel because I no longer wanted to look at them every time I opened my fridge. So it is

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Fresh lemon pound cake

Babies are cute and adorable but they’re also a handful – their moms usually do not have time for anything else but them. A very good friend of mine is the mother of a beautiful baby boy and when she invited me to first visit her son I knew I could not go empty handed: besides a present for the baby I brought a freshly baked cake for her, too (which she told me later made a wonderful breakfast)

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Cinnamon pound cake with macadamia spice ribbon + "A Single Man"

Keeping up with my 2012 film goal, I watched “A Single Man” last night and what a surprise it was for me: I already expected something good – Colin Firth and Julianne Moore can do no wrong – but the movie is so visually striking that I felt like writing Tom Ford an email, asking him to make another movie soon.

*spoilers*

I love the way Ford works with the colors: a friend of mine called it “

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Frangipane ripple chocolate pound cake

I love almonds – they’re my favorite nut. But for far too long I avoided recipes that called for almond paste because I’ve never seen the ingredient around here. Then it suddenly hit me: if I made eggnog from scratch for a pound cake recipe, why not almond paste? I do not know why it took my brain so long to come to that conclusion. :)

The homemade almond paste – recipe from this gorgeous book

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Dulce de leche pound cake

As I was updating my list of books – a couple of new additions as I told you a while ago – I kept thinking of ways to make it more functional and interesting: therefore, I’ve changed it a bit. I hope you all like it.

Oh, aside from books, there is cake here today, too – and it is absolutely divine. :)

Dulce de leche pound cake
slightly adapted from O, The Oprah Magazine

1 ½ cups (340g/3

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Elvis Presley’s favorite pound cake + my role choices if I were an actress

I don’t have any talent for acting but if I’d become an actress I would be interested in complex roles, characters full of layers; I would not want to play the girl next door – no, sir; I would like to be Alex Forrest, Isabelle de Merteuil, Patricia Hewes (yes, I love Glenn Close), Ada McGrath, Marla Singer, Mary Magdalene, Sarah Pierce; Sister Aloysius Beauvier, Nina Sayers, Lisbeth Salander –

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Peanut butter pound cake with coconut topping

Like the lovely Nina, I am, too, a pound cake addict: they are simple to make, taste great – and stay that way for a good couple of days – and after that can be turned into delicious toast.

This cake is fantastic and the topping is just as good – I “accidentally” left some in the pan after icing the cake and had to eat it with a spoon. :)

Peanut butter pound cake with coconut topping
slightly

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Chestnut pound cake

A very dear friend of mine got me a package of chestnut flour as a gift – yes, we’re the kind of people who love giving/getting food as gifts. :)

I have never seen that flour around here, and the minute she gave me the package she said: “make Alice Medrich’s chestnut pound cake as soon as you can”. I did as I was told – four times already, to be honest – and I’m forever in debt with my friend:

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