There was a baking contest at the farmers market last Saturday. I didn't decide to enter until Friday. The rules were you had to bake a layer or pound cake from scratch. Gingerbread is my specialty, but I wanted to make something more seasonal. I chose a lemon poppy seed pound cake that I found on the Internet.
After running to the store for ingredients I changed my mind and went with a citrus pound cake that included both lemon and oranges. I didn't have the cake flour the recipe called for so I substituted 3 tablespoons cornstarch for 3 tablespoons of the flour. Then I couldn't find my sifter, so I used a colander. Do you smell disaster coming?
The pound cake came out fragrant and looking good. My daughter-in-law volunteered to make the icing and she did a wonderful job of it. We ran down to the farmers market to enter the cake without a minute to spare. Unfortunately we did not win the best looking, or the best tasting cake. That honor went to the Kentucky Bourbon Pound cake. We did donate two dollars for a piece of our own creation and found it to be dry, but tasty.
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