Wednesday, April 26, 2023

Preserved Lemon Pound Cake with Lemon Cream🍋

This Preserved Lemon Pound Cake with Lemon Cream Icing is fabulous for Spring make it!
This fresh, citrus-forward cake is delicious for dessert, afternoon tea, or breakfast. Serve it with our Preserved Lemon Cream and fresh raspberries.
SHOPPING LIST:
4 large eggs
1 1/3 cups sugar
1/8 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
2 wedges Bella Cucina Preserved Lemons, diced (remove pulp and rinse lemons before dicing…pick up at Bonnes Amies kitchen)
1 ¾ cups all-purpose flour, sifted
½ teaspoon baking powder
⅛ teaspoon salt
½ cup heavy cream at room temperature, plus 2 tablespoons
5 ½ tablespoons unsalted butter, melted then cooled
1 tablespoon Extra Virgin Olive Oil
1 jar Lemon Curd (Pick up at Bonnes Amies kitchen)
1 cup powdered sugar, sifted
1 cup fresh raspberries
PREPARATION: Preheat oven to 350’
Butter a 9 by 5 inch loaf pan and dust with flour, shaking off the excess.
In a large mixing bowl, whisk eggs, sugar, salt and vanilla extract until blended. Stir in Bella Cucina Preserved Lemon until combined.
Fold in sifted flour and baking powder. Add heavy cream, stirring until incorporated. Gently fold in melted butter and olive oil. 
Once combined, pour into pan and bake in center of the oven until golden brown and toothpick placed in center of cake comes out clean, about 60 minutes.
Remove from the oven and set on a wire rack to cool.
For the glaze, whisk sifted powdered sugar with 1 Tablespoon of Lemon Curd and 2 Tablespoons of heavy cream until smooth. Drizzle over cooled cake and let set before slicing. 
Serve with Bella Cucina Preserved Lemon Cream and fresh raspberries.


Birthday Breakfast🎂

“Nothing is worth more than laughter. It is strength to laugh and to abandon oneself, to be light.” – Frida Kahlo
Happy birthday Venita, San, and D’Ann! Such a fun morning enjoying breakfast and having a few good laughs. A couple of us wore our favorite Magnolia Pearl pieces so cute!
*Hobnail glass votives flickering with tea lights are perfect for your spring fireplace.




New Grapevine Wreaths

New grapevine wreaths have arrived and we are excited to find them! Pick your favorite colors and let us design a vine wreath for your front door. This wreath is filled with yellow and purple poppies, snowballs, and purple lavender…tied with wide linen ribbon. These can also be cut and pulled apart for garlands and bases for botanical arrangements.

The color purple is beautiful in our mossy pottery jug. Filled with wild & wooly branches and pops of white blooms this will be beautiful in this customer’s entry for Spring.

New Jan Barboglio

New Jan Barboglio has arrived for Spring. Our favorite wax cast crowned hens & rooster, hand blown etched glass iron pieces, new burro with it’s helpful and determined spirit, and sparkling lanterns will add a touch of old Mexico charm to your home! Romanced by the history and beauty of old Mexico, Jan Barboglio creates idyllic, hand-forged decorative pieces that will grace any home. All of her pieces are accompanied by a meaningful poem, sentiment, or proverb, and make wonderful housewarming, wedding, birthday, and Mother’s Day gifts! Remember we have Lay Away...It's an easy way to make purchases that might otherwise cramp your budget. Each piece is beautiful.









Magnolia Pearl-April

All smiles today! Evan is a graduate of Texas Tech University and passed the bar exam today congratulations!!
Despierta, corazón, dormido – Wake Up, sweetheart – I’m asleep…
Divine inspiration and prompt intercession are always at your back, the second you open your heart. Our Awaken Sleeping Heart design upon a luminous marigold urges you to stay awake and join the love revolution; we need you. Made of soft Cotton Jersey, a Boyfriend Cut fit, and Hand-Distressing at Shoulders these T dresses are perfect for Spring & Summer. $200.00 Each
Each Magnolia Pearl item is cut "One Size Fits Most". Lay Away Available.



Trending for Spring…Magnolia Pearl overalls are creatively inspired and a piece of art to wear forever.For the garden, the studio, the festival, the shore - for all the places you love and create, our Floral Love Overalls are there to soak up the magic and keep your treasures.
*Cotton Twill 
*Appliqué and Embroidery 
*Hand-Distressing, Patching & Mending
*Lay Away Available at Bonnes Amies.
Each Magnolia Pearl piece itself is a story. The kind you think you know inside-out, but find new details revealed with each telling. Snippets of fairy tales overlay Huck Finn imagery, bolts of myth underpin psychedelic legends, and beneath it all, within it, resides you, the most glorious story of them all.
Our garments are just along for the ride -- pieces of thread and light, sewn summations of surrender, and dreams, with a poem on the sleeve.






Evan is an old soul and her beauty shines through these magnolia pearl pieces. These cotton denim embroidered pants are our favorite with embroidered cowboys, bucking horses, cactuses, and a few fluttering butterflies…the hand-distressing and fading makes them that more unique. The velvet detailed denim jacket with all over embroidery is a piece of art to cherish for springs forever.
Ever-so-gently punk, the You Just Love Miner Denims are revolutionary in their resilient and enduring integrity. From construction to creed, they spell out all we need - the simple truths that sustain and soar.






Cinched in ribbons or unconstrained, the Full Bloom Garden Dress shapeshifts to fit how you choose to be held, beholden only to your own heartfelt vision - awash in lilac and intricate flourishes, a flit of transformation and folklore.
European Cotton
Embroidery
Tattered Lace
Ties
Each Magnolia Pearl item is cut "One Size Fits Most". Lay Away Available.





Spring Picking Basket🌼

Does your front porch portray cheer & happiness? This front door sure does with our favorite wicker picking basket filled with our spring pink ranunculus, fluffy white hydrangeas, purple lavender, red tulips, and cheerful yellow sunflowers. All the color makes us smile today!

Magnolia Pearl T’s

Freshly unboxed from Fredericksburg over 50 new T’s have arrived. Our favorite shop girl has been anxiously waiting on Magnolia Pearl T’s! The softest worn cotton jersey, boyfriend cut, hand distressed details, and beautiful print make these instantly your favorite tshirt for spring & summertime. A Magnolia Pearl T is a great first piece for your collection!
***Each Magnolia Pearl piece itself is a story. The kind you think you know inside-out, but find new details revealed with each telling. Snippets of fairy tales overlay Huck Finn imagery, bolts of myth underpin psychedelic legends, and beneath it all, within it, resides you, the most glorious story of them all.
We can only be mended to the extent that we attend to this holiness, and only made whole through exposing the wear we have withstood.
Magnolia Pearl is about YOU, and how you tell your story.
Our garments are just along for the ride -- pieces of thread and light, sewn summations of surrender, and dreams, with a poem on the sleeve.
***Artist Robin 'Pearl' Brown is the creative spirit behind the exceptional company Magnolia Pearl. Robin, along with her partner John Gray, began her journey in 2001 when people on the streets of Fredericksburg, Texas were begging to buy her handmade purse off of her arm! Since that moment, the creative juices have been overflowing!
Now, Magnolia Pearl has grown into an empire of incredibly inspired, handmade and one of a kind items. From frocks and dresses, tunics and bloomers, shoes and hats, coats and pants; there seems to be nothing that Magnolia Pearl cannot imagine. The passionate creativity flowing through each Magnolia Pearl piece is so apparent and is what truly sets this company apart.