Lemon pound cake & hot firemen to the rescue...

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I realize that I have been posting lemon recipes lately and I confess that I am a lemonholic. In the summer it is so refreshing to bite into a piece of lemon cake or drink a tall cool lemonade. I found the following recipe this past week posted by Jeanne over at backyardneighbors.blogspot. Thanks to Jeanne I was able to whip up this cake in a jiffy and bring one over to my local fire department.

A few years back, I was baking cookies and accidentally burned my arm while pulling out a baking sheet. This was before I purchased silpat mats and was using parchment paper to line my cookie sheets. The cookies, along with the parchment paper, fell into the oven and started a fire. I was quick to close the oven door and turn off the oven. To insure safety, I dialed 911 and the firemen were in my kitchen with axes (oh my!) and gear in matter of minutes. Thankfully, it all turned out well. The firemen informed me that they often have fires in ovens caused by parchment paper. I gave them the cookies that were already cooling on my cooking racks as a thank you and off they went to rescue another damsel in distress.

Fast forward a few weeks later. I was in the market in the baking aisle and there were my fire hero's pointing at me and laughing. They were telling customers how I bake a red hot cookie and what a ball of fire I am in the kitchen. This teasing went on until I moved. From that day forward I started to bake for the local fire company. No matter where we move I have continued to play this forward by baking for these brave men and women who risk their lives to keep us all safe.

Perhaps you also bake for your local fire or police department?

Inquiring minds want to know.

Lemon cream pound cake

1 cup butter, softened
2 cup sugar
3 large eggs
1 tsp. vanilla
2 tsp. grated lemon rind
3 1/2 cups flour
2 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. baking soda
1/2 tsp. salt
2 cups sour cream

Grease and flour bundt cake pan. Preheat oven 350 degrees.

Cream butter and sugar together.
Add eggs one at a time,beating after each addition.
Add vanilla and lemon peel.

Sift dry ingredients together and add to creamed mixture alternating with sour cream.
Bake approx 50-60 minutes depending upon your oven.
Cool cake for 20 minutes and invert onto a baking rack.
When cake is completely cool ice cake.

Mix one cup of sifted powdered sugar with 3-4 teaspoons lemon juice to a drizzling consistency.
Pour over lemon cake.

Mangia!