I love "vintage" (like from the 50s) recipes with odd ingredients and among those kinds of recipes soda pop recipes are at the top of the list.
Here's a pound cake that uses 7-up...both in the cake and in the glaze.
The only trouble I had was getting the cake out of the bundt pan so grease that pan REALLY well.
Ingredients
- CAKE
- 1-1/2 cups softened butter
- 3 cups sugar
- 5 eggs
- 1 teaspoon lemon extract
- 3 cups flour
- 3/4 cup 7-up (or other lemon/lime) soda
- GLAZE
- 3/4 cup powdered sugar
- 4 teaspoons 7-up
1 cake
Directions
Preheat oven to 325.
Grease bundt pan well...really well.
Mix butter until light and fluffy -- should take a couple minutes if the butter's soft.
Slowly cream together with sugar.
Mix in eggs, one at a time, followed by lemon extract.
Slowly add flour then the soda.
Pour batter into pan and bake for 1-1/4 hours until a wooden pick comes out cleanly.
Remove from pan and cool for 8-10 minutes.
Mix glaze ingredients and then spoon over cake.
about 2 hours
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Comments
I was hoping for something different. The batter had this frothy texture. But in the end, it was a basic pound cake. I even halved the lemon extract with the hope of letting the true 7-up flavor through. I think 7-up may be too subtle of a soda.
I'm going to try two alternates, though. One idea is to poke holes in the cake and allow a thin soda glaze/syrup to soak in (ala rum cake). Another thought is to try a different soda. Will report back here my findings.
Intriguing, what's the reward? How does the 7-up make it awesome?