Mini Cakes By The Pound

Jan 29

Wrapping up our Mini Pound Cakes in recyclable biodegradable brown paper packaging. Both the bag and wrapping paper are encouraged to be used for compost and or for reuse.

Story Time

I think back to the times spent at my grandmothers’, “Nanny”, home when I was a child and there would never be a time without a cake on the table in its appropriate cake stand or holder. We all couldn’t wait to take the lid off after a long ride from Lexington to Ashland Kentucky to spend time with my grandparents, find a bowl, open the cake holder lid, and make room for some rainbow sherbet; or as we all would and still say “sherbert”! Still, a paring that makes sense to me in my adulthood. Although today I would typically go for a Talenti sorbet instead of the high sugar, milk, and fat content of sherbet.

Many meaningful conversations between my family and I have been had over “sherbert” and pound cake and I am so thrilled to be able to contribute my version to the community around me.

I first began with a recipe out of “The African American Heritage Cookbook: Traditional Recipes & Fond Remembrances from Alabama's Renowned Tuskegee Institute” by Carolyn Quick Tillery. A book that I found and retrieved from a trip last summer to Burlington, Ohio where my Aunt, “Kacky”, last resided before she passed away. I was immensely excited to look through the pages and find so many nostalgic recipes. Right after I returned home I began going through bookmarking which ones I’d complete. Starting with the “Smothered Pork Chops” and then on to “My Grandmother’s Pound Cake”, shortly after; which I found incredibly befitting to my upbringing of Southern Cooking. One of the main reasons why I chose to bake a cake during this time, this cake specifically, is because I had just started receiving eggs from my chickens and needed something to do with all 30 of them and this recipe called for 6. To say that the result was the best cake I had ever made let alone eaten would be an understatement…

Months later I decided to bake a few for the end of the year family holidays. Making a total of 34 Mini Pound Cakes to give to my family, friends, and loved ones. This started the urge to share more of this southern delicacy with the community around me. We now at Heavn On Earth Farms offer 2 different flavors: “Lemon-Lime” and “Regular” which is vanilla-based and available in a sugar-free option as well.