Semi-Homemade....Nobody Will Ever Know

I love to get into the kitchen with my favorite CD and slave away. Afterwards my shoulders and feet be hurting, but when I look at the creation I made, it makes the pain a little easier to deal with. Now, I know that not everybody feels the same way about this, like I do! This is one reason why I absolutely love Sandra Lee.


Sandra Lee has a show on the Food Network called 'Semi-Homemade,' where she takes already premade,packaged or canned food and mix them with a homemade recipe. This concept allows working moms or people who don't like to slave away in the kitchen a chance to create a beautiful meal in half the time and work. In spirit of her, I have added a simple lemon pound cake recipe, that is of course semi-homemade! Also encourage you to google Sandra Lee and read her inspirational story of coming from the trailer park, to a bad marriage and now to having her own cooking show. Enjoy.


Lemon Pound Cake
1 box Duncan Hines Lemon cake mix

1 box Lemon Instant Pudding mix or Lemon Jello


1/4 cup Sour cream


1 Tbsp Lemon zest


1 Tbsp Lemon Juice


1 cup Water


1/2 cup Oil


4 Eggs







Lemon/Vanilla Glaze
1 cup Confectioner's Sugar

1 Tbsp Lemon Juice


1 Tbsp Vanilla Extract



Combine all the ingredients together and mix on medium speed till well combined. Pour batter into a floured fluted cake pan or bunt cake pan. Bake at 350*F for 45-55 minutes. Let cake stand for about 15 minutes. While cake is cooling start making the glaze. Once glaze is complete, invert cake, onto a plate or cake stand, right side up. Drizzle glaze onto cake as desired.


For glaze combine all the ingredients together till the mixture is milky in color and then drizzle over top of cake. If you want the glaze all over cake, take a pastry brush and brush inside and outside of cake with the glaze.