#MEwx Warm, lots of melting and a Chocolate Cream Pound Cake recipe

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Happy Easter everyone

Good morning Augusta

A direct, real-time feed from my personal weather station is available for you

here.

This morning it's partly sunny with expected Highs in the mid 50s. Winds are Southwest around 10 mph.

Tonight it will be mostly clear, turning mostly cloudy with scattered showers after midnight. Lows will be around 40°F. Winds will be South around 10 mph during evening hours, becoming

light and variable.

The readings from my weather instruments are:

Our outdoor temperature is 37.2°F, the humidity is 61%, the dew point is 25.0°F and our wind chill is 37.2°F.

The wind direction is Northwest between 00 MPH and 0.1 MPH.

The Relative pressure is 30.06, the Absolute pressure is 29.86 and rising with a weather graphic indicating sun. Other than that, it's flat lined.

Visibility is 10.0 Miles with sunny skies.

The UV rating is 1 out of 16, The moon is 75.2% illuminated, the moon phase is waning gibbous, Sunrise is 5:59 am↑ 77° East, Sunset is 7:20 pm↑ 284° West, Moonrise is X.xx, Moonset is 9:10 am↑ 237° Southwest and we'll have 13 hours 21 minutes of daylight today.  

We had 0.18 additional inches of snow melt here over the past 24 hours.

This recipe isn't Easter related, but it's delicious.

CHOCOLATE CREAM POUND CAKE

1 cup heavy cream

2 eggs

1 tsp. vanilla

1 ½ cup all-purpose flour

1 cup sugar

¼ cup unsweetened cocoa

2 tsp. baking powder

¾ tsp. salt

Preheat oven to 350⁰

Butter and sugar-dust a 9"x5"x3" loaf pan

  1. In a mixing bowl, beat cream until stiff.
  2. Beat in eggs and vanilla.
  3. Sift remaining ingredients together into cream mixture; stir to blend thoroughly.
  4. Pour batter into the loaf pan.
  5. Bake for 55 minutes or until cake just begins to pull away from edge of pan.
  6. Cool in pan 10 minutes.
  7. Turn out on rack to cool, or slice and serve warm (with ice cream!).

 

Cake will stay fresh and moist for as long as a week if wrapped in airtight container after thoroughly cooled.

 

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