The Best Eggnog Pound Cake ever!!!!



Oh my goodness this has to be the easiest pound cake with a twist I have ever tried!!!! The recipe is simple and easy and the results are super!!! Just a little something for the table on Thanksgiving or even if you are having friends over for Christmas or Christmas eve as it does have eggnog in it!!!

Here are the simple steps to this delicious pound cake:

1 Classic Yellow Cake mix (easy enough)

1 pkg instant vanilla pudding mix (yip I said easy)

3\4 cup egg nog (any flavor)

3\4 cup vegetable oil

4 large eggs

1\2 tsp ground nutmeg

Pre-heat the oven on 350°F. Mix together the cake mix, pudding, eggnog and oil in a large mixing bowl until nice and moist. Add the eggs and nutmeg and beat with a mixer for about 3-4min..Spray your fluted pan with non-stick spray with flour or just butter it and flour it the old fashioned way!! Bake in the oven for 40-50min or until you insert a stick and its ready. Cool for about ten minutes on a rack and then turn out. Now I painted mine with a little RUM (yumm yumm) to give it just a little zing in the tasted and you can either dust it with powdered sugar or you can make a drizzle for it. 1tbsp butter (melted) adding 1 cup of powdered sugar and a tblsp of milk, mix together and drizzle of pound cake. If the mixture is a little thick add milk in 1\2tsp only.

Enjoy, I look forward to your feedback.

Jacki



The Sweet Sights and Sounds of Fall

I love Fall.............. there I said it. Its just sounds so cliche right?

Not at all, I read an article once about how powerful the senses are and just a smell or taste or sound can take you back to a distinct moment or memory in your life, like it happened yesterday! That's what fall is to me!

When I go outside and I see all of the leaves lying on the ground and the wondrous colors of the different leaves and trees, I think about the mornings I would walk to school thinking I was never going to make it through the cold. Well fifteen or sixteen years later, here I am just lavishing in the sights that take me back to that time!

I must admit what is a little weird for me is that it rains in the fall and winter, but, in South Africa where I grew up the only time it rained was maybe a little in the Spring time and most of the Summer afternoons were blessed with dark sky's and wonderfully playful lightning storms! So the wet seasons are a little topsy-turvy for me but I love them either way.

I have come to love the tradition of celebrating Hair Raising Halloween (which my family gets into pretty seriously) and then a month later Thoughtful Thanksgiving (which my family also gets into pretty seriously) and then a month later the wonder of Charming Christmas (which is bigger for the kids than the grown ups in my house). Memories and relationships are built on traditions and sometimes held together by those very same traditions so easily mocked by others.

Fall means all of that to me, time well spent with my family putting up decorations, planning meals to satisfy everyones taste buds, posing for pictures to laugh at later and the general warmth of the laughter, joy and love that Fall brings to ease the little chill outside!

So all I have to say is Welcome Fall its good to see you again!

Keep warm
Jacki