The Pound Cake from Hell!

Ok, so as i run up and down the aisles of Publix i call my hubby and ask him if there's anything special he wants me to pick up. He rattles off a list of things including pound cake, and i know i heard it, but it went in one ear and out the other. That nite after dinner he asks where's the pound cake?! Oops, i apologize and tell him i'll make him one tomorrow.

So i attempted to.

First i go on a mission to find one, and am happy to report that good ol Paula Deen has one! And before even clicking on it, i just knew that hers would have at least a stick of butter in it, and what do you know, it doesn't have 1, but 2! I love Paula and her a stick of butter in EVERY recipe mentality.

Grandmother Paul's Sour Cream Pound Cake

I don't have a bundt cake pan but i do have a loaf pan and my hubby's fave store bought pound cake comes in a loaf, so i just decide to use my loaf pan. My hubby got home when i was pouring the batter into the pan and i ask him, do you think i should pour this batter to the top or stop 2/3's of the way to the top or what? He says fill it up! So i do. Why did i listen to him?!

I pop that sucker into the oven, set the timer and walk away from the kitchen. I think it was about 25 min in, i smell something funny. I'm like what the heck, weird, and go to the kitchen to see smoke pouring out of my oven. WHAT?! I open it up and sure enough, there's cake batter pouring out over the side of the pan and well turning into charcoal at the bottom of my oven.

I turn everything off and amid a flood of expletives, take out the pound cake, the racks and start scraping the mess off the bottom of my oven with a spatula and bleepity bleeping that i can't believe i used 6 eggs and 2 sticks of butter and a whole hell of a lot of flour in a recipe that was ruined in less then 30 minutes!

After i cleaned everything up, i popped it back into the oven for the remaining hour. THIS is what came out of the oven.


It looked like it was doomed to me. I didn't taste it, but later that nite, my hubby walked over with a slice saying "it's good, babe". I hacked into it and pulled out a not too burned piece and thought, eh.

The next morning, i continued hacking away at it and decided to smear it with some butter, it was really good, like i had 3 pieces, that good.

So yes, make this recipe, but make it in a bundt pan! ;)

My hubby just walked in asking why i looked so serious, i told him i'm recanting the pound cake from hell story. He said really? I just bought a pound cake! LOL!

Guess i won't be making the recipe any time soon. :P