Grapefruit Pound Cake

Most of you know that my second love is gardening, after sewing, so I often post gardening tips and recipes here on the blog. We have a small "orchard", (we like to call it that because it sounds like we know what we are doing) with two Satsuma tangerine trees, a meyer lemon, fig, olive, dumpling peach, lime and grapefruit tree. This is a story about the grapefruit tree.

About 20+ years ago, our then 8 year old son wanted to plant a tree for Arbor Day with his dad. So Kyle and Mr. Romance decided that we needed a grapefruit tree. This thing grew so slowly and would produce the odd few grapefruits every few years.  The fruit was so sour it was deemed inedible by the family. I have wanted to dig the thing up and plant a more productive tree for years. This last year, Mr. Romance decided to give it some of his super duper fertilizer and lo and behold we have about 40-50 grapefruits this year! They are a tiny bit sour but still edible a make delicious juice.

So I scoured Pinterest and found this recipe for Grapefruit Pound Cake.

I won't reprint it because I can't figure out Pinterest's new terms yet, but I can tell you it is really good.

I juiced more grapefruits than were needed because I wanted to drink some of the juice. Refreshing!

It's a super easy recipe and the zest makes it taste so fresh and yummy. 

 My Mixmaster in action.

 This is to show Katy I'm a Ginger Monkey that we do have brown eggs in the US.

Only the best ingredients for my cake.

It bakes over an hour, slow and steady to produce a dense pound cake texture. 

Two Tablespoons of juice reserved for the glaze, then I drank the rest.

 More powdered sugar, juice and zest and the glaze is the "icing on the cake" for sure.

Ta, Dah! Done, and so, so yummy.

Thanks for stopping by,

"di"