Blanche's All Butter Pound Cakes by 3 Couzins Baking

On Wednesday my son calls me after my mother picks him up from the fancy private school.  "Mom, I sold a cake today"

Back Story:
My grandmother, Blanche Teresa Taggart, could sho nuff cook.  On top of that, there was always dessert.  One of her specialties was Pound Cake. When my husband and I owned a catering business, she gave me the recipe for the pound cake.  It became known as "Blanche's All-Butter Pound Cake".  We sold hundreds of them during the holidays.  

Fast forward and my husband dies.  People do weird things when they lose loved ones.  I baked (and crocheted --but that's another blog) and cooked.   I was even bold enough to tweak my Grandmothers perfect recipe.   Turns out it wasn't perfect.... but NOW it is!   We made so many cakes that all of the kids in my family can make the pound cake on their own.  

The Pound Cake making became therapy, for everyone.  We made cakes every weekend.  If someone got a promotion, we made them a cake.  Someone lost a loved one, we made them a cake.  Someone gave us tickets to an event, we made them a cake.

When the holidays approached the first year that Spen2 attended the fancy private school, money was not in a happy place.  As a matter of fact, it was sad... very, very sad.  The options for gifts for his teachers became limited.   I was deciding whether to give NOTHING or a $5 Graeter's Gift Card when pound cake hit me.   So, for the last couple of years Spen2s teachers have been getting small Blanches All Butter Pound Cakes as a holiday token of appreciation.  

Back to Wednesday:

I asked him "You sold a cake to who?"  His reply  "One of my teachers asked me today if we only made cakes during the holidays and if she could get one any time. So, I told her she could get it anytime she wanted.  But this is a BUSINESS.  There is a fee for that" Screech!  He told the teacher that???   "So she asked me how much they cost.  I told her that she could buy a small one for $15 and a large one for $25"   Boom~!  That's how you launch a business.

Blanches All Butter Pound Cake by 3Couzins Bakery.  You too can have a pound cake...but this is a BUSINESS... Small $15 and Large $25.   Everyone that got one of those grieving cakes.... be prepared to pay the next time!