Ari's Birthday

Is coming up very soon. It's becoming tradition that they can ask for whatever kind of cake they wish. This time Ari has chosen....


....a pound cake! How unusual... how challenging... how intriguing... how fun!! I now have several recipes in hand, I'll choose the simplest of them and give it a whirl. Many of them call for mace, what is mace exactly?! One recipe called for a POUND of both flour and sugar, which I hope was a typo, because that is a lot of those! nearly all of them call for a pound of butter and MANY eggs, though on that they vary from just 4 to as many as 10. Most have some kind of flavoring, though we'll likely just start with vanilla. I haven't decided yet if it's worth investing in a tube pan, I have a couple bread pans that would work just as well and are able to be lined with parchment paper prior to baking for ease of removal.

I'll probably involve Ari in the creation of her unique birthday cake.