Memaw's Pound Cake with a Cranberry Twist and Lemon Glaze

This week, Erica Price Patterson shares her version of Memaw's pound cake recipe.  

Check it out--it looks delicious!!!

Memaw's Pound Cake with a Cranberry Twist and Lemon Glaze

Ingredients

Cake

1 cup oleo (butter)

2 cups sugar
2 1/2 cups flour
5 eggs
1 tsp vanilla
1 tsp baking powder

TWIST!!!
add 1 cup dried cranberries

Glaze
1 cup powdered sugar
2 tbsp lemon juice
(add more sugar or juice or water for a thicker consistency)

Instructions

Cake
*Preheat oven to 325 degrees.
*Grease and flour tube pan (bundt pan).
*Mix all cake ingredients, except for cranberries.
*Fold in cranberries.
*Pour into tube pan.
*Bake for 60 to 75 minutes, 'til toothpick comes out clean.
*Cool cake in pan on wire rack for 10 minutes, then
*Turn cake onto plate/serving plate.

Glaze
*Heat powdered sugar and lemon juice in a small sauce pan over a low heat 'til smooth and with the consistency you want.
*Allow glaze to cool 'til it starts to thicken, then
*Pour glaze on cake.
[If you pour glaze on cake while it is still hot, it will just run off the cake!)

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Erica also had a new blog, Royalty & Rockstars, "...a unique boutique! Full of hair bows for girls, blankets, bibs, diaper bages, wipee cases and much much more! I am also going to be making stuff for boys, so mama's like me...2 boys...(and) no girls...can get some handmade stuff too!" (R&R)

Photos/Erica Patterson

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