Friday Feature & Honeymoon

Today's featured recipe is from a tea room in Greensboro, Georgia known as The Potted Geranium Tea Parlor. It is located in historic downtown Greensboro in a restored circa-1840s home featuring six unique tearooms. Visit their website! If you haven't ever visited Greensboro, you should because it is so lovely. It has tons of antique stores, good restaurants and of course Reynolds Plantation on Lake Oconee.

Lemon Blueberry Pound Cake

3 cups all-purpose flour

1/2 teaspoon baking soda

1/2 teaspoon salt

1 cup butter

3 tablespoons lemon zest

2 cups sugar, divided

6 large eggs, divided

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

8 ounces sour cream

1 pound frozen blueberries, tossed

with 1 tablespoon flour

Powdered sugar for dusting

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease and flour large Bundt pan. Set aside.

Sift together flour, baking soda and salt; set aside. Cream together butter, zest and 1 3/4 sups of sugar at medium-high speed with an electric mixer until light and fluffy. Add egg yolks, 2 at a time, beating just until blended after each addition. Add vanilla, and beat beat to incorporate. Add flour mixture to butter mixture alternately with the sour cream, beating at low speed after each addition, beginning and ending with the flour mixture. Set aside.

In second mixing bowl, beat egg white at high speed with an electric mixer until foamy. Gradually add remaining 1/4 cup sugar, beating until stiff peaks form. Fold a third of the egg whites into cake batter. fold remaining egg whites until almost incorporated; carefully fold in blueberries. Transfer batter to prepared Bundt pan.

Bake at 350 degrees for 1 hour and 15 minutes or until toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean. Cool in pan on a wire rack for 10 minutes. Turn cake out onto rack over a sheet pan. All to cool completely. Serve with a dusting of powdered sugar. Enjoy!

On another note, I couldn't be more happy on this Good Friday! Not only do Sam and I get to see our family this weekend but our Honeymoon plans have been booked. We seriously have been going back and forth about where to go. We had initially decided on Europe but it ended up being WAY MORE than we wanted to spend. So we decided on ST. LUCIA!

We are staying at the lovely Sandals Grande for 3 nights.

 In a room that looks like this...

 Then we will be traveling through The Pitons...

 And staying at Ladera Resort for our last 3 nights...

 In an amazing room that overlooks the beautiful Pitons (Open-Air)...

Hope everyone has a wonderful EASTER and don't eat too much food!