ingredients by the pound

Finally! I made this joker over a week ago but hadn't managed to get the pics on the computer...then once I did, I hadn't uploaded them... finally did that this morning. So my first attempt at a pound cake went deliciously well. YAY! I mean it wasn't that tough - put a bunch of stuff in a bowl (and by that i mean a BUNCH of stuff. It was a 'classic' pound cake, so a pound of this, a pound of that, a pound of the other) and mix, put in pan and bake. But then again, I tend to believe that at the very least, if you can read you can cook, but I'm told that ain't so...


But I digress. So here it be.At first I did think hmm was there something I should have done to ensure flatness of what would become the bottom... But that was fleeting. I know it's really just a matter of needing to slice off the excess, but as you can see that's a good hunk of excess, so I just left it. It was stable enough. When I need to do it for an event, I'll likely reconsider and come up with a way to repurpose the part that I have to cut off.

I had purchased white chocolate chips a while back for use in another project, but ended up not going that route. I also had some frozen mango in the freezer... so i decided that for icing/glaze/sauce I'd make a white chocolate mango something. I figured that I could work the chips like a ganache and work in the mango. It seemed like a reasonable combination... I did get a li'l chicken the day of and googled "white chocolate mango" just to see if anything came up and it did. Which just confirmed that it was indeed decent combination. I didn't keep digging for a recipe, just went w/ my plan. Essentially make a white choc ganache (tho it's not quite the same consistency as w/ the semi sweet choc chips) and add pureed mango. Yum-mmy!


I didn't put the sauce on the cake itself but added it to the plate. My plating skills need work before I head to Chopped or Iron Chef, lol. Tho I can't believe I neglected to take a SINGLE pic of a slice w/ the sauce *hangs head in shame*. I'll do better next time. Next time... so not sure what's next on my overall agenda but i did hear about brown sugar pound cake which I'm likely to try. And I'm also envisioning a lemon lb cake with a citrus berry glaze... or mixed berry compote... or... who knows!