Paula Deen

I LOVE Paula Deen! She reminds me of Tennessee, Mrs. Millie, Mrs. Vicki, MeeMaw, and she says ool instead of oil. Not to mention that she loves butter and I just find that funny. SO I was watching her show the other day and she made a really cool trifle that I tried today for dinner with our friends here is the recipe. . .

First you bake a pound cake with almond extract and I LOVE almond extract. . .

1/2 cup (1 stick) butter, softened
3 cups sugar
5 eggs
3 cups cake flour
1 cup milk
2 teaspoons lemon extract or almond extract or orange zest or rum nip

Grease and flour a 10-inch bundt pan.
In a large bowl, using a hand mixer, combine the butter and sugar until creamy. Add the eggs, 1 at a time, beating well after each addition. Add the flour and milk alternately, beginning and ending with the flour. Stir in the lemon extract. Spoon the batter into the prepared pan.
Place pan in a cold oven and heat oven to 325˚F. Bake cake for 1 hour.
Increase the oven temperature to 350˚F and bake 30 minutes more.
Cook’s Note: Do not open the oven door while baking.
Cool the cake in the pan for 10 minutes, then turn out onto a wire rack to cool. Serve garnished with berries and a scoop of vanilla ice cream alongside

Then you start the trifle with this. . .

by mixing it with 1/2 cup sugar and about 4 cups strawberries, blueberries, blackberries, or raspberries or any combination. . .

Then you cut the pound cake into squares and lay them over the bottom of the trifle bowl and spoon 1/2 of the berries over the top like this:

Then you cover with 1/2 of the cool whip and repeat the process until it looks like this.

Very fun. . . Can't wait to try it tonight!!