This looks easy! I must try it. Thanks.

I make her skillet almond shortbread and it is delicious!

Sounds like a regular pound cake except Whipping cream (many more fat calories) instead of milk. Can we REALLY improve on a glorious cake (made with milk) by adding FAT.

Just Wondering????? I happen to love pound cake, and deprive myself of it too often because it is so good and buttery and yummy. With the dollop of whipping cream on the top of nature's wonderful summer fruit.

If you don't feel like going to the trouble I bought a very tasty pound cake at the Dollar Tree, Very good!

Oh, it sounds wonderful! Thanks for sharing.

Strangely, a 'cold oven' marble cake has an important role in a novel I read recently, "When The World Was Young".

I didn't care for it enough to recommend it here and don't recall the author. I thought it dwelt too long on the childhood of the main character, a girl born into a family of female MD's living in NYC just before WWII.

This may be a 'first novel'. I thought it needed tighter editing. ANYWAY...you will have to read it to find the significance of the 'cold oven cake'.

Do you use an electric beater or beat be better by hand?

I use a hand held beater.

I came across that recipe quite a while ago and put it in my too-try binder. I have a bundt pan that's what I'll use. Thanks for the recommendation Sheila.

So not electric, a rotary beater?

Ellen, an electric mixer. She used a hand-held, vs a kitchen-aid style.

Thanks!

Sorry, to confuse it further, my hand held electric beater is a nice little Kitchen Aid. It is strong too.

This sounds extremely good!

Sheila, I meant the stand mixer style. I'm sure Ellen knew that's what I was talking about. :-)

I understand you completely, Jasdip, but couldn't resist.

I do remember those old fashioned hand powered egg beaters, as we called them. I have not seen one for years. I think the whisk has taken their place in today's kitchens, but I certainly used my mother's egg beaters.

Haha, I was hoping you were just having fun with me, Sheila!!
I remember those egg beaters too. They'd really get things frothy! Hmmm I wonder if they wouldn't do a better job than a whisk, anyway. Takes up more room in the drawer though.

I still love, and use, my old-fashioned rotary egg beaters.

Of course, I'm multi-beatered and love my little portable electric mixer, and the honkin' huge bright yellow Kitchen Aide stand mixer.

And the old, black potato masher that you simply pound the potatoes into submission with. And the ever-useful whisk.

Man? Do I have too many tools to simply mash up food?

I've always used a round potato masher vs the rectangular style, but I couldn't resist getting this double-masher when we were out for the day on my birthday.

The other two things are a small scale, and a Danish dough whisk which were my birthday gifts.

I have never seen a double masher. I like to hand mash potatoes at first, and then turn to my hand held electric mixer as I add butter, salt, pepper, and milk. I like 'em fluffy.

I've never seen a double masher like that either. I love kitchen tools....and most of the ones I have are vintage but I do like the looks of that one.....and, no....as far as I am concerned...you can't have too many kitchen gadgets. Especially the kind that don't take up a lot of space.

Nyah, nyah, MY portable electric mixer is *AQUA*. It's 50 years old and still working -- despite one beater having been bent by the newlywed attacking a lump of brown sugar.

I haven't heard of Aqua, Chisue, but when I think of stand-mixers, I sure remember my Nan using a super-heavy Sunbeam (cream colour) on a revolving base.

My mother had one of those, Jasdip. The milk glass bowls in two sizes turned as you bet whatever. It was a workhorse, but so much easier to lift to the counter work surface than the humongo KA with the stationary bowl that DH brought home as a surprise in 1974. I try to use the easy to lift portable KA mixer I have now rather than the behemoth.