4:00pm pound cake

It's difficult to make desserts from new recipes, especially when you're the type of person who likes not overly sweet sweets, as we are. Even Cook's Illustrated recipes, that most illustrious of sources, tends to produce desserts just this side of too sweet for us. And this after M. reduced the sugar from 1.5 cups to 1.25 cups! Everything else, though, was pretty perfect.