Cakes 19 and 20: Michelle's Pound Cake in Nigella's Trifle Goes to the Wedding Shower

   "Is there alcohol in the dessert?"
   "Would you want it any other way?"
   Who on earth ever knew flight attendants aren't supposed to have alcohol, even the scant two teaspoons or so in a serving of Nigella Lawson's Chocolate Cherry Trifle (page 406, Feast)?  I wonder whether that rule applies pilots and air traffic controllers.  Neurosurgeons?   Good thing Michelle Urvater's Marbled Chocolate Pound Cake affords such an abundance of leftover cake, even after the trifle is assembled, that plain cake can be offered right alongside the uber decadent, creamy, brandy-laced trifle.   This recipe makes 4 pounds of  cake, and one of those pounds is pure unsalted butter (page 108, 150 Chocolate Cakes).  This is pretty cake, too, with the marbling effect, although next time I might up the contrast by skipping the cocoa powder in the light batter.  Oooh,  what  would this be like if  the light batter were white chocolate pound cake?  Just one way to find out....