7-Up Pound Cake
Serves: 10-12
Everyone at sometime will need a pound cake recipe! This is one I use frequently.
Ingredients
2 sticks of butter, softened, not melted
½ cup shortening
1 ½ teaspoon lemon extract
1 ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
3 cups plain flour
7 oz 7-Up soda
3 cups sugar
5 eggs
Directions
- Preheat oven to 300’.
- Cream softened butter, shortening and sugar. Add extract flavors
- Add eggs, one at a time, beating after each addition.
- Alternate flour and 7-Up, beating after each addition, finish with 7-Up.
- Spray 10’ tube pan with Baker’s Joy or grease with shortening and dust with flour lightly.
- Pour batter into pan and bake for 1 hour or until a cake tester or wooden skewer comes out with no wet crumbs on it.
- Let cool for 30 minutes in pan before turning out onto a plate.
You can make a glaze with powdered sugar and lemon juice or sprinkle it with powdered sugar. Serve plain or with strawberries and ice cream but delicious with nothing added.